Isabel Pizarro Sánchez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabel Pizarro Sánchez is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 9. A corpus-based analysis of genre-specific multi-word combinations: Minutes in English and Spanish Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas and Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.), pp. 221–252 | Chapter
English and Spanish minutes both contain two vocabulary sets, one that codifies the ‘field’ and belongs in a given content area, and another that codifies the discursive practices of the genre ‘minutes’. This paper sets out to explore which multi-word combinations can be identified as genre- and… read more
2002 Translation and ‘similarity-creating metaphors’ in specialised languages Target 14:1, pp. 43–73 | Article
This corpus-based research deals with the translation of metaphor in specialised texts. In these texts, metaphor is both a cognitive tool and aesthetic device. Some metaphors, particularly those which create a new similarity, seem to develop into technical terms, and this can cause translation… read more