Spatial deictics in translation: a case of proximal demonstratives in English and Lithuanian

Recent research on deictic elements has made extensive use of translation corpora to demonstrate that asymmetries between translational paradigms signal subtle contrasts from a systemic and pragmatic perspective. The purpose of the present study is to identify translation correspondences of the English spatial demonstrative ‘this’ in Lithuanian and to discuss the contrastive features within the analytical framework of translational explicitation and implicitation. The results indicate that in the prototypical situational usage there is a high degree of correspondence between the original and the translation, while textual uses demonstrate low formal equivalence.[...]Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij