Lexical bundles and German bibles
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submitted by armadillo 1 year and 1 month ago
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This article examines the use of lexical bundles-repeated word groups of differing lengths-in two German Bible translations and analyzes their use in relation to the comparative readability of the two texts. The texts included in this study are the four Gospels and the book of Acts in Martin Luther’s classic translation of the Bible and the modern translation Hoffnung für alle (Hfa). The study is both quantitative and qualitative in nature, looking at lexical bundle statistics in aggregate and at specific uses of lexical bundles in context. The results indicate that the older translation used many more lexical bundles, but types that were used by the newer version were used more effectively. Overall, however, the older version has the advantage in readability due to its greater use of lexical bundles.
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