Thomas C. Messerli

orcid.org/0000-0002-8708-5304

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas C. Messerli is involved.

Journals

Journal of Language and Pop Culture

Edited by Valentin Werner, Paul Flanagan and Mie Hiramoto

ISSN 2950-578X | E‑ISSN 2950‑5798

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722

Title

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli

This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation, papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] 2023. vii, 336 pp.

Articles

Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli 2023 Chapter 1. Interpreting, translating, transferring: Introducing the collection Pragmatics and Translation Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter

This introduction positions the themes of the collection within the field of pragmatics and translation studies. It outlines the breadth of the field from interpreting to sensory translation and discusses novel papers in four different parts. In the first three parts, translation is defined as… read more

Messerli, Thomas C. and Miriam A. Locher 2023 Chapter 10. Contrastive analysis of English fan and professional subtitles of Korean TV drama Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 221–248 | Chapter

We compare fan subtitles and subtitles produced by professionals in order to detect what concepts each of them foreground, and how they differ in register and in translation strategy. Differences are systematically explored with the help of corpus-assisted discourse analysis to contrast two sets… read more

Dayter, Daria and Thomas C. Messerli 2022 Persuasive language and features of formality on the r /C hange M y V iew subreddit Formality and Informality in Online Performances, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 165–195 | Article

The paper investigates formal language in persuasive discourse on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit. We collected a corpus of 100 million messages, split into subcorpora based on the user-awarded marker delta, which rewards changing an original poster’s view. Assuming that formality/informality is… read more