Semantic and Grammatical Structures of Thai Dish Names Translated into French
Keywords:
Translating Thai into French, Thai Dish name, Semantic structure, Grammatical structureAbstract
This article aims to investigate the semantic and grammatical structures of Thai dish names translated into French. The research data were menus collected from 15 Thai restaurants situated in France. The framework of French naming of Bosredon was adopted. The results show that most Thai dish names in French consisted of at least two phrases. The head of the name was a noun phrase and could be qualified by noun phases, adjectival phrases or prepositional phrases. The first noun phrase played the role of category element and the others as the distinctive element. The category element was classified into nine semantic fields, and 13 semantic fields for the distinctive element. The selection of semantic field for the category element or the distinctive element depended on the translators preference of emphases. Consequently, one Thai dish name could have more than one French translation.
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