Text Constructs: A Hermeneutic Approach

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In this book, the study of interpretation is pursued with the double aim of examining the role of interpretation in initiating, processing and receiving text constructs, and exploring meta-textual constructs such as self-attribution, text integrity, author identity, and readability scales. Among other things, the author demonstrates how hermeneutic filtering enables academic discourse to maintain a delicate balance that post-production readers highlight or dispute. In translation, the translator undertakes post-production and pre-production processing, and this extent, inter alia, translation is a viable candidate for studying the relevance of interpretation to text constructs. Hence,, the book serves as a textbook and/or a reference for students and researchers in Text Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Translation Theory and Practice Contents acknowledgement ix Preface xi Acronyms used in the book xiii Chapter 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chapter 2 1 2 3 4 5 Chapter 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Interpretation in Language and 1 Translation: The Interpretive Frame Preliminaries 1 Equivalence 2 Difference in Translational Data 3 The Interpretive Frame 4 The Scope and Latitude of Interpretation 5 Linguistic Relativity 10 Interpretive Latitude and Writing 12 Perspectives Exemplified Construction and Interpretation of 17 Corpus-Based English Poetry Vocabulary Profile Introduction 17 Related Literature 20 Corpus and Methodology 22 Results and Discussion 28 Conclusion 45 Appendix to Chapter 2 46 Text Variants and First Person 77 Domain in Author Identification Background 77 Variety Features and Text Variants 79 Author Identity: Pedagogical Implications 82 Author Attribution 85 Author Identification 89 Experiment 95 Author Profile 99 Text-Type Profile: Vocabulary, 106 Readability, Grammatical Depth and Textual Markers Discussion and Conclusion 108 Appendix to Chapter 3: 111 Chapter 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chapter 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 Chapter 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 viii Self-Attribution: Author Identity and Text Integrity in Academic Discourse Background 117 Self-Attribution and Text Integrity (TI) 120 Standards of TI 125 Text Integrity, Text Attribution (TA) and 130 Interpretation Academic Editorial Practices Exemplified 133 Editorial Practices: Implications 149 Text Integrity and Author Identity Profile 151 First Person Domain: Threshold 161 Mental Lexicon and Arab Learners of English background 161 ML: English Language Learners and the 162 Size of the ML First Person Domain and the ML 165 Methodological Considerations 166 ML: Monolingual Word Association Retrieval and Interpretation 167 ML: Bilingual Word Retrieval, coverage 173 and Interpretation Discussion 183 Finale 185 Appendix One: A Copy of Tasks 186 Appendix Two: Results of Various Tasks 189 Translating With Difference: 217 Textual Constructs at Work Preamble 217 Courses in Arabic-English Translation 280 Theoretical Background 221 The Situation 224 The Hermeneutic Approach 201 Constructs Applied 228 Concluding Remarks 235 Appendix to Chapter 6 237 Bibliography 243 Arabic References 257