ABSTRACT
The paper deals with conventionalised emotive formulas for the expression of outrage, annoyance, astonishment and surprise. The empirical basis consists of emotive formulas from the dialogue passages in the detective novel ‚Im Wald’ by Nele Neuhaus and in its translation into Polish by Anna Urban and Miłosz Urban. The following paper focuses on two research questions: 1) What formulas are used to signal emotions such as outrage, annoyance, astonishment and surprise in dialogues in the literary text in German? 2) How are these formulas translated into Polish? Thus, the aim of the paper is, first of all, to collect emotive formulas expressing the mentioned emotions and to present the problems in their translation. The qualitative analysis of the research material was performed using MAXQDA software.
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1 Zur besseren Lesbarkeit wird im Text das generische Maskulinum verwendet. Gemeint sind jedoch immer alle Geschlechter.
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3 https://www.lehmanns.de/listing/1052-spiegel-jahres-bestseller-belletristik-taschenbuch-2011 [Zugriff am 11.04.2022]
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Justyna Duch-Adamczyk
Justyna Duch-Adamczyk, PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Department of Contrastive Studies, research interests: media linguistics, conversation analysis, phraseology, morphology and syntax of German and Polish, email: [email protected]. ORCID 0000-0002-4199-0472
Agnieszka Poźlewicz
Agnieszka Poźlewicz, PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Department of Contrastive Studies, research interests: morphology and syntax of German and Polish, (contrastive) phraseology, text linguistics, pragmalinguistics and political linguistics, email: [email protected]. ORCID 0000-0002-2607-0811