Melania Cabezas-García
List of John Benjamins publications in which Melania Cabezas-García is involved.
2025 La asimetría conceptual en la traducción del medio ambiente: Un estudio de caso Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 38:2, pp. 629–653 | Article
La asimetría conceptual se produce cuando un concepto no se codifica del mismo modo en dos lenguas debido a diferencias culturales, entre otros factores, y puede dar lugar a la inexistencia de equivalencia en la lengua de llegada. Este trabajo investiga los problemas de traducción en la… read more
2024 Chapter 5. Evaluating a bracketing protocol for multiword terms Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology, Monti, Johanna, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero (eds.), pp. 79–102 | Chapter
Multiword terms (MWTs) are frequently used to encapsulate and convey meaning in scientific and technical texts. However, they can also make these texts difficult to understand because the relations between constituents are not transparent. When MWTs have more than two constituents, a dependency… read more
2023 Indirect translation and its influence on term variation: A pilot study on climate action Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development, Buts, Jan, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley (eds.), pp. 255–284 | Article
Term variation occurs when different designations are used to name the same concept. In institutional settings, such as the European Union, term variants multiply, partly as a result of the different languages and directions involved. Indirect translation is a recurrent practice in these… read more
2021 Multi-word term variation: Prepositional and adjectival complex nominals in Spanish Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:2, pp. 402–434 | Article
Complex nominals (CNs) are frequently found in specialized discourse in all languages, since they are a productive method of creating terms by combining existing lexical units. In Spanish, a conceptual combination may often be rendered with a prepositional CN (PCN) or an equivalent adjectival CN… read more