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Polysemy in translation

The present paper examines polysemy in the context of translation. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on how the translator chooses the ‘ right’ meaning of a polysemous word or phrase. In order to disambiguate polysemous words and to select the intended reading of a polysemous word, translators need to find certain indicators or markers serving as disambiguation tools. Using examples from the British National Corpus, I investigate which kinds of markers or indicators are most commonly used. Although so-called grammatical words, such as prepositions and conjunctions as well as word-forming morphemes also show interesting polysemous features, due to the limited extent of this paper, the scope of this research is restricted to the polysemy of nouns and phraseological units.

polysemy; translation; cognitive linguistics; phraseological units

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