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Books by Laura Cruz García
This volume brings together a number of corpus- based studies dealing with language varieties. Th... more This volume brings together a number of corpus- based studies dealing with language varieties. These contributions focus on contemporary lines of research interests, and include language teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and textual phenomena, linguistic variation and gender, among others. Corpora used in these studies range from highly specialized texts, including earlier scientific texts, to regional varieties. Under the umbrella of corpus linguistics, scholars also apply other distinct methodological approaches to their data in order to offer new insights into old and new topics in linguistics and applied linguistics. Another important contribution of this book lies in the obvious didactic implications of the results obtained in the individual chapters for domain-based language teaching.
Papers by Laura Cruz García
Peter Lang Publishing Group eBooks, 2010
... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ ... more ... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ 916), film translation (Snell-Hornby 1988 ... These spots, which were dubbed for broadcast on Spanish television, feature two consumer products from L'Oreal, a multinational company ...
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) eBooks, 1998
Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies, Oct 25, 2021
Unlike subtitling, the process of dubbing does not give the audience the opportunity to fully per... more Unlike subtitling, the process of dubbing does not give the audience the opportunity to fully perceive the cultural gap between what they hear and see, and their own reality. This takes on a new dimension when the customs and the characters which are being depicted in the foreign film are not the 'standard' ones (i.e. those from the US) but those belonging to 'marginal' cultures (e.g. European, African or Asian). Let us take the imaginary example of a Moroccan film in which a character representing an Arabic-speaking Tuareg, whose voice has been dubbed into Spanish, uses the same kind of perfect Castilian as audiences usually hear in the mouth of a New York police officer in an American series dubbed into Spanish. The cultural impact of a different language is supposedly lost when the dubbing makes all the voices sound the same. This paper will discuss the influence of dubbing on the audience's perception of a range of films in the context of Spain's film industry. We will offer an empirical study with the aim of identifying the elements which filmgoers use to situate a film, and even question whether (and to what extent) the process of dubbing effaces the cultural and national origin of a film. The conclusions drawn will contribute to the research on the reception of (audiovisual) translation.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2011
Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality.... more Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possible in English, and Aikhenvald (2004) admits that modal verbs in English are a borderline case. In our article, we seek to explore the use of may and might in a corpus of medical abstracts to demonstrate (i) their value as grammatical evidential markers, and (ii) their value as epistemic markers that show the author's attitude to the proposition manifested. In doing so, we follow Cornillie (2009), who defines these two concepts as independent categories. The results of our analyses indicate that these modals may be used as grammatical markers of evidentiality, regardless of other semantic and pragmatic meanings.
Servicio de Publicaciones eBooks, 2002
... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramír... more ... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramírez Jaimez. págs. 21-28. ... págs. 179-188. La traducción de las estructuras prolépticas inglesas al español: aplicación práctica. María Jesús Rodríguez Medina. págs. 189-200. ...
Language Value. Volume 16.2, 2023
This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expressions... more This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expressions called contronomi, which refer to the nicknames traditionally used by members of the Neapolitan mafia. We have focused on this special kind of nickname used in the Italian series Gomorra to identify and describe the techniques employed in the translation of these meaningful linguistic cultural elements found in the series into English and Spanish. To this end, a contrastive analysis of the source text in the Neapolitan dialect and the subtitled version in English and the dubbed version in Spanish of the first season has been carried out. The results obtained showed that the translation tendencies regarding the handling of the contronomi of the main and secondary characters of this audiovisual product greatly differ in the two target languages and cultures. While the English version tends to make them understandable to its target audience, the Spanish version favours keeping them in their original form as if they were proper names.
XXXI Congreso de AESLA. Comunicación, cognición y cibernética / Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA). Universidad de La Laguna, del 18 al 20 de abril de 2013. p. 643 - 654, 2014
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) eBooks, 1998
Perspectives on Audiovisual Translation, 2010
... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ ... more ... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ 916), film translation (Snell-Hornby 1988 ... These spots, which were dubbed for broadcast on Spanish television, feature two consumer products from L&#x27;Oreal, a multinational company ...
Estudios de filología moderna y traducción en los inicios del nuevo milenio: Actas del I Encuentro de Estudios de Filología Moderna y Traducción, Departamento de Filología Moderna de la ULPGC, 29 y 30 de noviembre y 1 de diciembre de 2001, 2001, ISBN 8460764230, págs. 657-666, 2001
Folia Translatologica [2151-7290], nº 9 (2005) p. 24-35, 2005
There is wide acceptance of the relationship between languages for specific purposes (LSP), somet... more There is wide acceptance of the relationship between languages for specific purposes (LSP), sometimes called special languages and terminology. Both are present in the same specialized communication environments and participate of the same specialized knowledge. Yet, the restricted interpretation of terminology that sometimes has been made, considering it just as a set of lexical items, has limited the importance of its study in the field of special languages and in LSP. In this paper, some reflections on the theoretical as well as the practical aspects are presented in order to enhance their relationship. 1. Introducción En el título que he propuesto para esta conferencia aparecen unidas las lenguas para fines específicos y la terminología, pero hemos de convenir, desde un principio, que ambas admiten diversas interpretaciones. Por ello, comenzaré acotando el alcance que pueden tener y el sentido con el que las planteo aquí. Luego veremos las relaciones existentes entre ellas, y la...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2011
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article a... more The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possible in English, and Aikhenvald (2004) admits that modal verbs in English are a borderline case. In our article, we seek to explore the use of may and might in a corpus of medical abstracts to demonstrate (i) their value as grammatical evidential markers, and (ii) their value as epistemic markers that show the author's attitude to the proposition manifested. In doing so, we follow Cornillie (2009), who defines these two concepts as independent categories. The results of our analyses indicate that these modals may be used as grammatical mark...
Ibérica, 2007
Although experts on advertising and the discourse of advertising have traditionally presented a s... more Although experts on advertising and the discourse of advertising have traditionally presented a series of features common to all adverts, the incidence of these features depends on a number of factors, including the type of product being promoted, the market being addressed and the media used. This article presents the results obtained from an analysis of a corpus of English print adverts for financial products focussing on lexical, semantic, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Initial research determined the salient features of this type of advert enabling us subsequently to observe the extent to which they differ from adverts for consumer goods in general. The rapid expansion of this product sector and its advertising over recent decades makes it a particularly interesting area to study, while industry estimates predict that the money spent on advertising in this sector will increase substantially over the next five years, ensuring its relevance as a field of study. This paper, and t...
éruditest un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Mont... more éruditest un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche.éruditoffre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit:
The aim of this paper is to show the potential benefits of web-based training systems for the tea... more The aim of this paper is to show the potential benefits of web-based training systems for the teaching of languages for specific purposes. For this reason, we describe the aspects that should be taken into account when designing a web-based course and present, as an example, the application of a web-based system to the teaching of English in the field of
... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramír... more ... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramírez Jaimez. págs. 21-28. ... págs. 179-188. La traducción de las estructuras prolépticas inglesas al español: aplicación práctica. María Jesús Rodríguez Medina. págs. 189-200. ...
This volume brings together a number of corpus- based studies dealing with language varieties. Th... more This volume brings together a number of corpus- based studies dealing with language varieties. These contributions focus on contemporary lines of research interests, and include language teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and textual phenomena, linguistic variation and gender, among others. Corpora used in these studies range from highly specialized texts, including earlier scientific texts, to regional varieties. Under the umbrella of corpus linguistics, scholars also apply other distinct methodological approaches to their data in order to offer new insights into old and new topics in linguistics and applied linguistics. Another important contribution of this book lies in the obvious didactic implications of the results obtained in the individual chapters for domain-based language teaching.
Peter Lang Publishing Group eBooks, 2010
... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ ... more ... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ 916), film translation (Snell-Hornby 1988 ... These spots, which were dubbed for broadcast on Spanish television, feature two consumer products from L&#x27;Oreal, a multinational company ...
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) eBooks, 1998
Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies, Oct 25, 2021
Unlike subtitling, the process of dubbing does not give the audience the opportunity to fully per... more Unlike subtitling, the process of dubbing does not give the audience the opportunity to fully perceive the cultural gap between what they hear and see, and their own reality. This takes on a new dimension when the customs and the characters which are being depicted in the foreign film are not the 'standard' ones (i.e. those from the US) but those belonging to 'marginal' cultures (e.g. European, African or Asian). Let us take the imaginary example of a Moroccan film in which a character representing an Arabic-speaking Tuareg, whose voice has been dubbed into Spanish, uses the same kind of perfect Castilian as audiences usually hear in the mouth of a New York police officer in an American series dubbed into Spanish. The cultural impact of a different language is supposedly lost when the dubbing makes all the voices sound the same. This paper will discuss the influence of dubbing on the audience's perception of a range of films in the context of Spain's film industry. We will offer an empirical study with the aim of identifying the elements which filmgoers use to situate a film, and even question whether (and to what extent) the process of dubbing effaces the cultural and national origin of a film. The conclusions drawn will contribute to the research on the reception of (audiovisual) translation.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2011
Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality.... more Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possible in English, and Aikhenvald (2004) admits that modal verbs in English are a borderline case. In our article, we seek to explore the use of may and might in a corpus of medical abstracts to demonstrate (i) their value as grammatical evidential markers, and (ii) their value as epistemic markers that show the author's attitude to the proposition manifested. In doing so, we follow Cornillie (2009), who defines these two concepts as independent categories. The results of our analyses indicate that these modals may be used as grammatical markers of evidentiality, regardless of other semantic and pragmatic meanings.
Servicio de Publicaciones eBooks, 2002
... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramír... more ... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramírez Jaimez. págs. 21-28. ... págs. 179-188. La traducción de las estructuras prolépticas inglesas al español: aplicación práctica. María Jesús Rodríguez Medina. págs. 189-200. ...
Language Value. Volume 16.2, 2023
This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expressions... more This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expressions called contronomi, which refer to the nicknames traditionally used by members of the Neapolitan mafia. We have focused on this special kind of nickname used in the Italian series Gomorra to identify and describe the techniques employed in the translation of these meaningful linguistic cultural elements found in the series into English and Spanish. To this end, a contrastive analysis of the source text in the Neapolitan dialect and the subtitled version in English and the dubbed version in Spanish of the first season has been carried out. The results obtained showed that the translation tendencies regarding the handling of the contronomi of the main and secondary characters of this audiovisual product greatly differ in the two target languages and cultures. While the English version tends to make them understandable to its target audience, the Spanish version favours keeping them in their original form as if they were proper names.
XXXI Congreso de AESLA. Comunicación, cognición y cibernética / Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA). Universidad de La Laguna, del 18 al 20 de abril de 2013. p. 643 - 654, 2014
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) eBooks, 1998
Perspectives on Audiovisual Translation, 2010
... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ ... more ... by translation scholars, among which we find the following expressions: film dubbing (Fodor\ 916), film translation (Snell-Hornby 1988 ... These spots, which were dubbed for broadcast on Spanish television, feature two consumer products from L&#x27;Oreal, a multinational company ...
Estudios de filología moderna y traducción en los inicios del nuevo milenio: Actas del I Encuentro de Estudios de Filología Moderna y Traducción, Departamento de Filología Moderna de la ULPGC, 29 y 30 de noviembre y 1 de diciembre de 2001, 2001, ISBN 8460764230, págs. 657-666, 2001
Folia Translatologica [2151-7290], nº 9 (2005) p. 24-35, 2005
There is wide acceptance of the relationship between languages for specific purposes (LSP), somet... more There is wide acceptance of the relationship between languages for specific purposes (LSP), sometimes called special languages and terminology. Both are present in the same specialized communication environments and participate of the same specialized knowledge. Yet, the restricted interpretation of terminology that sometimes has been made, considering it just as a set of lexical items, has limited the importance of its study in the field of special languages and in LSP. In this paper, some reflections on the theoretical as well as the practical aspects are presented in order to enhance their relationship. 1. Introducción En el título que he propuesto para esta conferencia aparecen unidas las lenguas para fines específicos y la terminología, pero hemos de convenir, desde un principio, que ambas admiten diversas interpretaciones. Por ello, comenzaré acotando el alcance que pueden tener y el sentido con el que las planteo aquí. Luego veremos las relaciones existentes entre ellas, y la...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2011
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article a... more The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possible in English, and Aikhenvald (2004) admits that modal verbs in English are a borderline case. In our article, we seek to explore the use of may and might in a corpus of medical abstracts to demonstrate (i) their value as grammatical evidential markers, and (ii) their value as epistemic markers that show the author's attitude to the proposition manifested. In doing so, we follow Cornillie (2009), who defines these two concepts as independent categories. The results of our analyses indicate that these modals may be used as grammatical mark...
Ibérica, 2007
Although experts on advertising and the discourse of advertising have traditionally presented a s... more Although experts on advertising and the discourse of advertising have traditionally presented a series of features common to all adverts, the incidence of these features depends on a number of factors, including the type of product being promoted, the market being addressed and the media used. This article presents the results obtained from an analysis of a corpus of English print adverts for financial products focussing on lexical, semantic, syntactic and pragmatic aspects. Initial research determined the salient features of this type of advert enabling us subsequently to observe the extent to which they differ from adverts for consumer goods in general. The rapid expansion of this product sector and its advertising over recent decades makes it a particularly interesting area to study, while industry estimates predict that the money spent on advertising in this sector will increase substantially over the next five years, ensuring its relevance as a field of study. This paper, and t...
éruditest un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Mont... more éruditest un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche.éruditoffre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit:
The aim of this paper is to show the potential benefits of web-based training systems for the tea... more The aim of this paper is to show the potential benefits of web-based training systems for the teaching of languages for specific purposes. For this reason, we describe the aspects that should be taken into account when designing a web-based course and present, as an example, the application of a web-based system to the teaching of English in the field of
... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramír... more ... Listado de artículos. Sesiones plenarias. La traducción: metáfora y realidad. Ana Sofía Ramírez Jaimez. págs. 21-28. ... págs. 179-188. La traducción de las estructuras prolépticas inglesas al español: aplicación práctica. María Jesús Rodríguez Medina. págs. 189-200. ...