Lesson 2 follow up

Translation problems 3 Suffixes with no equivalent in certain expressions: Employer Lack of equivalents for compounds Buzzword ("Diversity" is the new buzzword in education) Acchiappaodori, assorbiodori mangiaumidità Air freshner Dehumidifier attività per farglielo scoprire: introduci nozione di comparable text? Comparable corpora?

Agriturismo * agritourism Likn ch. 2 -3

In which words can you find the prefix AGRI-, then? Agribusiness noun [U] /ˈæɡ.riˌbɪz.nɪs/ specialized the various businesses that are connected with producing, preparing, and selling farm products

…and agribusiness? Agribusiness and agrifood sector are synonims

Lesson 3

Lexical and sense relations Lexical relations (syntagmatic relations) collocations Sense relations (paradigmatic relations) Synonimy, Antonimy Hyponimy

The idiom principle Users have available to them a large number of semy pre-constructed phrases (Sinclair 1991) Linguistic theory has been “massively biased in favour of the paradigmatic rather than the syntagmatic dimesion” (Sinclair 2004, 140-145) In order to integrate the two dimensions, Sinclair suggests a focus on Collocation: co-occurrence of (lexical) words Colligation: a grouping of words based on the way they function in a syntactic structure - i.e., a syntactic pattern These notions are fundamental for LSP phraseology The idiom principle is key in corpus linguistics Sinclair, John 2004. The Lexical Item. In Trust the text. Language, corpus and discourse. London: Routledge 131-148.

Familiarising with corpora Corpus = collection of texts assumed to be representative of a given language put together so that it can be used for linguistic analysis. Usually the assumption is that the language stored in a corpus is naturally-occurring, gathered according to explicit design criteria, with a specific purpose in mind (Tognini Bonelli 2001)

British National Corpus Corpora reference Monolingual British National Corpus COCA specialized monolingual multilingual Comparable Parallel Linguee

parallel corpora Online resources: Linguee

What is the Italian equivalent? Online resources: parallel corpora

A double check:

Corpora and translation General or specialised comparable bilingual corpora allow translators to compare Terminology Phraseology Textual conventions

Business: a polysemic word Buying and selling of goods Amount of trade done Firm/shop Work/ responsibility (Important) matter Situation/event

Can you find examples of different meanings of business?