New tools for translators: INTCA, an electronic dictionary of interjections

Matamala, Anna; Lorente, Mercè

doi:10.1075/btl.78.08mat

In:Between Text and Image: Updating research in screen translation
Edited by Delia Chiaro, Christine Heiss and Chiara Bucaria
[Benjamins Translation Library 78] 2008
► pp. 63–75

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New tools for translators: INTCA, an electronic dictionary of interjections

Anna Matamala | Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Mercè Lorente | Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Published online: 14 August 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.78.08mat

This paper presents INTCA (Interjeccions Català-Anglès, i.e. Interjections Catalan-English), a prototype for an electronic dictionary of interjections in English and Catalan, aimed at the needs of language professionals in general and audiovisual translators in particular. This proposal is based on a theoretical framework developed by Cuenca (2004), who includes cognitive postulates to define interjections. The audiovisual corpus used for the analysis of interjections and the collection of lexicographical data for the prototype are also described.

Keywords: audiovisual translation, corpus linguistics, electronic lexicography

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