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translation” (Baker 1996: 181–182). This triggers an added problem in our trans-
lated data: shifts in negative scope and meaning, both semantically and pragmati-
cally, which would also imply a certain degree of sanitization.
This study is a first attempt to tackle the behaviour of particular negative
resources in an English-to-Spanish translation context. The results can be further
systematized as prescriptive or descriptive guidelines which might be useful in
applied activities, mainly in the areas of foreign language teaching and translation,
which share some of the basic characteristics of cross-linguistic communication.
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