Publication details
A Comparison of Different English Translations of Identical Passages Based on FSP.
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Discourse and Interaction |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Firbas; Bible; translation; comparison; |
| Description | Apart from the classical understanding of functional sentence perspective (FSP) in the sense of organising principle in information processing, there are other, more or less additional roles played by FSP, such as functional analysis of a distributional macrofield or the functional pressure of the rhematic track. The present paper discusses yet another special use of an FSP analysis: the functional comparison of different translations of the same original passage, based exclusively on FSP analysis. Three biblical extracts in four English versions of translation are analysed, discussed and compared from the point of view of functional sentence perspective. |