Дискурс и текст в аспекте перевода. Выпуск 1. Егорова М.А. - 46 стр.

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  [76] If aggression should instantly be punished, why was not a man, not a gun
sent to deal with the occupied territories of the Middle East, Cyprus and East
Timor? Our middle-of-the-road warmonger waves this aside. International force
was not used in the past, he agrees. It should have been.
  [77] To learn a new language you’ve got two options: either you study gram-
mar, vocabulary and phonetics for months and months or you can go back to the
way you learnt things as a child. A child learns to speak almost ‘by chance’. He
imitates his parents without knowing why.
  [78] ‘You know, I can’t keep up with you, Caroline. Last I heard you were in
hot pursuit of a man.’
  Caroline frowned. ‘Who says I’m not now?’
  [79] And what is the Prime Minister doing while all this is happening? I’ll tell
you what he’s doing. Driving around in his flash car at our expense, that’s what.
Or chatting with his Cabinet friends about how ungrateful we are.
  10. При определенных условиях личное местоимение it и указательные
местоимения this / that (в абсолютной форме) взаимозаменяемы. В каких из
приводимых ниже примеров такая замена возможна? Обоснуйте свой вы-
бор. Определите содержание анафорической отсылки в каждом случае.
         [80] Graham reckons that we should buy a laser printer. He says this
      will speed up our output enormously.
         [81] My brother used to tease me all the time. I hated it.
         [82] ‘She’s having a baby.’
         ‘How do you know that?’
         [83] The B minor suite came floating up from the great hall to the ears
      of the two men in the laboratory. They were too busy to realise that they
      were hearing it.
  11. Определите референциальную отнесенность местоимения it в приво-
димом ниже отрывке. Обратите внимание на то, что данное местоимение
может быть использовано не только анафорически, т.е. как средство связи
различных предложений в тексте, но и как формальное подлежащее. В не-
которых случаях также имеет место так называемая экзофора (т.е. it отсы-
лает к некоторой ситуации, не упоминаемой в самом тексте). Какие еще
приемы когезии встречаются в данном тексте?
         [84] What’s it matter? You start a family, work and plan. Suddenly you
      turn around and there’s nothing there. Probably never was. What’s a fam-
      ily, anyway? Just – just kids with your blood in ’em. There’s no reason
      why they should like you. You go on expecting it, of course, but it’s silly,
      really. Like expecting ’em to know what they mean to you when they’re
      babies. They’re not supposed to know perhaps. It’s not natural really,
      when you come to think of it. You can’t expect anybody to know what
      they mean to somebody else – it’s not the way of things. There’s just
      nothing. Bloody nothing.