Text, Context, Concepts (text, Translation, Computational Processing) (text, Translation, Computational Processing [ttcp])

The common aim of the contributions to this volume is to shed light on the communication of conceptual structures. The papers investigate how speakers rely on the same cognitive dispositions in three different areas of transfer: in the lexicalization of metonymies and metaphors; in intercultural communication; and in expert-lay communication. Preface Introduction 1 Lexical transfer Discourse and lexicalization Communicative transfer of metonymic reference On the mixing of conceptual metaphors Classifiers, metonymies, and genericity: A study of Vietnamese Comparing apples and pears: Latent Semantic Analysis 2 Transfer between languages Morning, noon and night: Denotational incongruencies between English and German Marked communication and cultural knowledge in lexis Integrating translation theory and translation practice Form symbolism across languages: Danish, Slovene, and Japanese 3 Transfer between functional varieties Metaphors in expert and common-sense reasoning Accurate fuzziness as constructive reduction in communication The misreporting of science: The debate about the Antarctic ozone hole Levels of abstraction in specialist concepts as a translation problem Index Zelinsky-Wibbelt, who heads the Lexicalization in Discourse project at Hanover U. in Germany, explains that this volume treats the communication of conceptual structures within a cognitive linguistic framework. Thirteen contributions investigate aspects of the linguistic processes involved in understanding metaphors and figures of speech in information transfer; intercultural communication; and "translation" of specialist concepts for lay audiences, as in a case study of the misreporting of science. A corollary goal is to reconcile cognitive and analytic methodologies and theories toward more holistic theories of human cognition. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) This article gives an overview of the project LEXIKURS (Lexicalization in Discourse).