The expression of interpersonal functions in Czech and in English: the Czech suffix -pak and its translation counterparts

Abstract

Focussing on Czech expressions containing the suffix -pak, the study explores the possibility to use translation counterparts as 'markers' of discourse functions, i.e. formal correlates of interpersonal and textual functions, which make it possible to detect these functions in the text, and compare their expression cross-linguistically.

Keywords

• Czech/English
• parallel corpora
• suffix –pak
• discourse functions
• translation counterparts