One of the characteristics of German scientific language is the frequent use of noun phrases containing multiple modifiers. A common type of modifier in German scientific writing is the NP modifier in genitival case. Although not uncommon in the Swedish language, these so-called genitival modifiers are found more frequently in German texts, not only because of the grammatical differences between the two languages, but also due to the German preference for a more nominal writing style. This study focuses on the translation of German genitival modifiers into Swedish. The first aim of the study was to determine which syntactic structures can be used to translate German genitival modifiers into Swedish, as well as to establish the most frequently used translation structure or structures. The second aim was to identify the factors that prevented the direct transfer of a genitival modifier. For the purposes of this study, a section of Wolfgang Mertens popular scientific book Traum und Traumdeutung was translated into Swedish, after which it was analyzed with the above-mentioned aims in mind. The study has shown that about a third of the genitival modifiers found in the source text were translated using prepositional modifiers. Another third were translated with a corresponding Swedish genitival modifier. For the translation of the remaining genitival modifiers six additional types of structures were used. The main factors that prevented a direct translation were the grammatical inability to use certain types of genitival modifiers in the target language as well as the preference of the target language for more verbal expressions.

The aim of this study is to explore the nominal style in translation, based on the language pair Swedish-German. The non-fiction source text (a Swedish economic text), which was used as material for this study, was translated by the author into German before the actual analysis was carried out. An important feature of the nominal style is the frequent occurrence of nominalizations. With the assumption that German non-fiction texts are particularlyprone to use the nominal style, whereas Swedish non-fiction texts are more likely to usethe verbal style, a quantitative and qualitative analysis was carried out, with the intention of exploring these tendencies in the two languages. The focus was on the one hand on the question of the frequencies with which nominalizations occur in both texts, and on the other hand, how and to what extent nominalizations may be structurally shifted intranslation. Building on the translation model by Eriksson (1997), a classification was made that grouped different structural changes and made them measurable. The results show that the expected assumption could be confirmed. The proportion of nominalizations in the German target text was higher than in the Swedish source text, but with a much smaller difference than assumed. Carlsson (2004) came to a similar conclusion in her study, in which economic texts from newspapers were compared in a language-contrasting manner

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Raquel Linares Ferreira.pdf: 334496 bytes, checksum: c7a4e201bf5eee222c2a29bf4ff7b1b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-24 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work has as its object of analysis the typological peculiarities present in chronicle a written discursive genre. We will treat genre as a multidimensional phenomenon. We are aiming to a social and interactional investigation with the language. We will analyze the textual occurrences that characterize the chronicle genre of discourse; the detailing and deepening of its occurrence peculiarities, depending upon its circulation and social consumption. This work has as its theme the observation of the chronicle genre and their typological peculiarities. We have made the analysis of the corpus with the application of theoretical fundamentation in order to prove the typological differences of reflective, lyrical and humoristic chronicle, analyzing the thematics, verbal style and the peculiarities of the compositional form, suitable to differentiate and characterize them .The basis for description of the discourse genre is founded on scholars such as Luiz Antônio Marcuschi (2003) Textual Production, Genre Analysis and Understanding, Bakhtin (1992, 1997, 2003), & Dolz. Schneuwly (2004, p. 116), Meurer (2000, 2005). The approaches of the perspectives of the genre of discourse are grounded in the article of author Rodrigo Costa. To approach the concept of discursive genres, particularly the chronicle genre and its characteristics, we had look for support in Coutinho (1976,1978,1997), Coaracy (1961), Arrigucci (1987), Sa (1985), Beltran (1992), Candide ( 1980), Fargoni (1993), Konzen (2002), Moses (1987), rabbit (2002), Cony (2002), Mello (2002) and Fávero (2005) among others. The result of the analysis presents, in fact, the occurrence of the typologies mentioned in the chronicles, both in relation to the textual occurrences and the thematic strategies, verbal style and compositional structure and linguistic resources of orality (dialogues) built into the literature / Este trabalho tem como alvo de análise as peculiaridades tipológicas presentes na crônica - gênero discursivo escrito. Trataremos o gênero como um fenômeno multidimensional. Objetivamos investigação sócio-interacionista sobre a linguagem. Analisaremos as ocorrências textuais que caracterizam o gênero do discurso crônica; o detalhamento e aprofundamento de suas peculiaridades de ocorrência, dependendo de sua circulação e de seu consumo social. Este trabalho tem como tema o gênero crônica e suas peculiaridades tipológicas. Efetuamos a análise do corpus com a aplicação da fundamentação teórica, a fim de comprovarmos as diferenças tipológicas da crônica reflexiva, lírica e humorística, analisando as temáticas, o estilo verbal e as peculiaridades da forma composicional, próprios para diferenciá-las e caracterizá-las. A base para descrição do gênero do discurso fundamenta-se em estudiosos como, Luiz Antônio Marcuschi (2003) Produção Textual, Análise de gêneros e compreensão, Bakhtin (1992, 1997, 2003), Dolz &. Schneuwly (2004, p. 116), Meurer (2000, 2005). As abordagens das perspectivas do gênero do discurso estão pautadas no artigo do autor Rodrigo Costa. Para abordarmos o conceito de gêneros discursivos, especialmente do gênero crônica e suas características, buscamos apoio em Coutinho (1976,1978,1997), Coaracy (1961), Arrigucci (1987), Sá (1985), Beltrão(1992), Cândido (1980), Fargoni (1993), Konzen (2002), Moisés (1987), Coelho(2002), Cony(2002), Melo(2002) e Fávero (2005) entre outros.O resultado das análises apresenta, de fato, a ocorrência das tipologias referidas nas crônicas tanto em relação às ocorrências textuais quanto das estratégias temáticas, estilo verbal e estrutura composicionall e nos recursos linguísticos da oralidade (diálogos) construídos na literatura

Scientific language, in contrast to general language, is characterised by its abstract and implicit style of expression, known as nominal style. A typical feature of this style is the frequent use of nominalizations which tend to be more common in German than in Swedish. This study will investigate whether these differences are also present in highly specialized medical texts. The quantitative and qualitative analysis is based on the translation of two medical articles from Swedish to German. The aim is to find out how often a nominalization in the source text corresponds to a nominalization in the target text, which structural shifts occur and how they influence the degree of nominal style. For this purpose, the concept of the “grammatical metaphor” was applied. The results show that the Swedish source text contains less nominalizations than the German target text. In 30% of the cases, less explicit and more metaphorical information was conveyed in the target text. In most of these cases a Swedish verbal construction was translated into a German nominalization. The metaphorization was often optional and guided by the conventions of medical texts. 65% of the occurrences showed the same degree of grammatical metaphoricity and were thus re-metaphorized. In the remaining 5%, the target text was less explicit and thus de-metaphorized. The Swedish source text proved to be less nominal than the target text.