Publications

Authors:

Cantarini, Sibilla

Title:

Translatability into the German language of some attenuated uses of the Italian negation "non"

Year:

2012

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Dialogue: State of the Art. Studies in Memory of Sorin Stati

Publisher:

LINCOM EUROPA academic publications

ISBN:

978-3-86288-369-1

Page numbers:

149-167

Keyword:

interrogative sentences, negation "non", attenuated uses, translatability into German

Short description of contents:

In my contribution I will focus on the meaning of several occurrences of the negation "non" in Italian interrogative sentences which have the characteristic of not inverting the polarity of the clause expressed in the speech act. Following that, I will evaluate the possibility of translating the mentioned occurrences of the negation "non" with the occurrences of the negation "nicht" in German. Several properties of the negations "non" and "nicht" will be analyzed and corresponding classes of sentences in the two languages identified, in which the negations "non" and "nicht" seem to occur with the same meaning. Only in the last class of interrogative sentences analysed, that is, in the wh-interrogatives with rhetorical value, the negation with attenuated function "non" turns out to be better translated, in some cases, with the Abtönungspartikel "wohl", which becomes a rhetorical indicator in place of the negation.

Note:

Editore di fascia A

Product ID:

68529

Handle IRIS:

11562/430272

Deposited On:

October 15, 2013

Last Modified:

November 4, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Cantarini, Sibilla, Translatability into the German language of some attenuated uses of the Italian negation "non" Dialogue: State of the Art. Studies in Memory of Sorin Stati , LINCOM EUROPA academic publications , 2012 , pp. 149-167

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