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In:Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto
[Studies in Language Companion Series 189] 2017
► pp. 353–370

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Chapter 17
Augmentatives in Italian and German

From contrastive analysis to translation

 | Università di Torino
Published online: 30 September 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.189.18cos
Abstract
The present paper deals with Italian and German augmentation, analyzed both from a contrastive linguistic and translational perspective. It explores the Italian suffixes ‑one and ‑accio as well as German formatives conveying similar meaning (AUG and PEJ) paralleling the presentation of the Italian augmentation features in their formal, semantic features and pragmatic-interactive dimensions with the equivalent features in German in order to work out similarities and differences between the two languages. In a second step the analysis focuses the parole-level and investigates the bidirectional translation strategies of augmentatives (Italian-German; German-Italian) in bilingual lexicography and in an Italian-German translation corpus. The goal is to verify what happens on the parole-level, checking different possible solutions to translate and express augmentatives in context and contrasting them with the findings of the contrastive analysis on the langue-level.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Augmentation: A contrastive perspective
  • 3.Methods and data
  • 4.Contrastive linguistic approach
    • 4.1Augmentation in Italian
      • 4.1.1Formal features
      • 4.1.2Semantic features
      • 4.1.3Pragmatic dimensions of augmentatives
    • 4.2Augmentation in German
      • 4.2.1Formal features
      • 4.2.2Semantic features
      • 4.2.3Pragmatic aspects
    • 4.3Résumé
  • 5.Potential translations and current equivalents
    • 5.1Potential translations in bilingual lexicography
    • 5.2Current equivalents Italian-German
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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