Suite Talking : a corpus comparison study of function words in banking-industry shareholder letters

Diplôme Master Suite Talking : a corpus comparison study of function words in banking-industry shareholder letters eng 2015 author Tarpley James 750087 director Jemielity David 114653 Working from a corpus of shareholder letters from ten financial institutions each from the English-speaking and French-speaking worlds from 2009 to 2013, this comparison study employs a methodology inspired by the work of James W. Pennebaker's to catalogue and analyze in detail the frequency of use of " function words" such as pronous, articles, and prepositions, as well as a number of other categories defined by Pennebaker and for which he has calculated baseline usage rates for comparison purposes. The ultimate goal of this methodology is to highlight aspects of language use in translated shareholder letters that differ markedly from those in similar letters originally written in English, in order to suggest tweaks which would enable translators to better reproduce the language style of these extremely high-profile corporate communication texts in their translations of such texts from French to English. Dewey 418.02 Maîtrise universitaire en traduction : mention traduction spécialisée 111 Département de traduction 91 false 41f09df0-859c-43d5-b733-4ebd46a9085c Master thesis Public James_Tarpley_memoire_trad_final.pdf 1507895 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traduction

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