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Linguistic Identities through Translation

Sidiropoulou (National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens) explores the potential of outlining linguistic identities through contrastive analysis of source and target versions of texts. Analyzing diversity in three genres in the English-Greek translation paradigm--news reporting, the European Union discourse, and literature/theater --the author focuses on systematic preference observed in target versions of texts in translation situations between English and Greek and expands on diversification across other language pairs. The author suggests that preferred linguistic traits may contribute to outlining a linguistic identity identifiable and measurable which could be applicable to various settings, including translation training, the EFL classroom, and machine translation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).