Language Recoding and Transcoding: 10 (Catalan Studies in Culture and Linguistics)

Languages tend to be identified as basically steady and uniform even if evolution has performed a considerable amount of recoding operations. The overlapping area of individual forms of a code are the arena of transcoding negotiations and adaptations leading to linguistic change. Recoding and transcoding are in the spotlight in this book aiming to the connection between analytical approaches traditionally severed into independent research fields. Translation, subtitling, proofreading, history literaturising, phonetic perception and semantic interpretation, and language change all share a point discernable only if the code is understood as essentially dynamic. Although most of the chapters work on Catalan, this book offers theoretical approaches applicable to any other language.

Nicolau Dols is a full professor of Catalan at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and a member of Institut d’Estudis Catalans, whose Philological Section he currently chairs. His research interests lie mainly in the fields of phonology and grammar. He has also addressed issues in sociolinguistics, language standardisation, translation, and constructed languages.

Jordi M. Antolí Martínez is a professor at the Department of Catalan Studies of the University of Alicante and member of the Institut Superior d'Investigació Cooperativa IVITRA. His work deals with the analysis of Catalan Diachronic Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar.