Anna Espunya

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Espunya plays a role.

Articles

In the early novels of the Carvalho detective series by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, set in the years of Spain’s transition to democracy, the negotiation of identities and political stance are paramount characterization resources. Given the role of speech in the construction of identity,… read more
Espunya, Anna 2007 Informativeness and explicit linking in the translation of the English V-ing free adjuncts into CatalanInformation Structuring Resources in Contrast, Behrens, Bergljot, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 143–166 | Article
This paper reports on a study designed to assess the influence of the pragmatic Principle of Informativeness on the translatorial strategy of explicitation. It replicates a previous study on the occurrence of conjunctional augmentation of English present participle free adjuncts in a monolingual… read more
Espunya, Anna 2007 Is Explicitation in Translation Cognitively Related to Linguistic Explicitness? A Study on Interclausal RelationshipsThe Study of Language and Translation, Vandeweghe, Willy, Sonia Vandepitte and Marc Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 67–86 | Article
Espunya, Anna and Patrick Zabalbeascoa 2003 Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic textsMeaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 159–180 | Article
Espunya, Anna 1998 On the Semantics of the Spanish Progressive Sequence ir + gerundTense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy, Vogeleer, Svetlana, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 21–42 | Article
Abstract. This paper focuses on progressive aspect. Definitions of the progressive in various formal semantics frameworks, concerned essentially with the English be + V-ing form, provide a picture of the progressive as a single aspectual notion, a sort of universal primitive. Languages such as… read more