A Descriptive Framework for Compensation

Harvey, Keith

doi:10.1080/13556509.1995.10798950

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“…One such project has already been suggested above: an exploration of what happens in translation to vocabulary items with negative (or positive, or even neutral) semantic prosodies. Another obvious study would involve using the parallel corpus to see if translators have tried, for example, to compensate for the loss of collocational creativity in the target text (see Harvey 1995). As has been shown time and time again in corpus linguistics, a new resource can give impetus to new research.…”

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Creatures of Habit? What Translators Usually Do with Words

Kenny¹

2002

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This paper focuses on some of the methodological and theoretical challenges presented by the investigation of "sanitisation" in translated texts through the analysis of semantic pros- ody. The main hypothesis is that target texts tend to use toned down vocabulary compared with their sources, and that this results in the creation of a "sanitised version of the original."Cet article se concentre sur certains des défis méthodologiques et théoriques de l'étude de l'"assainissement" des textes traduits par l'analyse de la prosodie sémantique. L'hypothèse principale est que le vocabulaire des textes cibles est généralement plus restreint que celui de l'original; il en résulte ce que nous appelons des "versions assainies de l'original"

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Creatures of Habit? What Translators Usually Do with Words

Kenny¹

2002

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“…In the TT the 12. It is admittedly difficult to pinpoint the exact instance of wordplay which is compensated; see Harvey (1995) for generalized compensation.…”

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The translation of wordplay in interlingual subtitling

Williamson¹,

Ricoy²

2014

Babel

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It is frequently said that humor does not travel well, and wordplay, which is inseparably connected to humor, poses particular problems for the translator as it is intrinsically linked to the source language and culture, and consequently is often described as untranslatable. The translator’s task is further complicated when instances of wordplay are encountered in audiovisual texts due to the constrained and semiotic nature of the medium. The aim of this paper is to examine the translation strategies applied to wordplay in the English subtitles of the French filmBienvenue chez les Ch’tis[Boon 2008]. To do this, instances of wordplay in the source text and the target text were classified according to the typology of wordplay as proposed by Delabastita (1996), and subsequently analyzed using the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) (Attardo and Raskin 1991) in order to contrast the differences between source text and target text instances of wordplay. The findings show the trends in the application of translation strategies and demonstrate that GTVH, albeit with some modifications, is a useful analytical tool in the context of audiovisual translation in that it could show how the puns evolved in translation and therefore give a better understanding of wordplay to aid the choice of translation strategy. As long as a narrow view of equivalence is avoided, this study demonstrates that the translation of wordplay is possible even within the polysemiotic structures of audiovisual texts.

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“…After pointing out that compensation is an important, but not overriding phenomenon, I will now consider Harvey's (1995) framework in greater depth. As we have seen, Cary has limited recourse to compensatory strategies as far Downloaded by [University Library Utrecht] at 17:38 16 March 2015 as Dante's wordplay is concerned, at least in terms of contiguous (adjacent textual position) and parallel (same textual position) types.…”

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“…The notion of generalized compensation in particular seems to be ideally suited to accounting for those features of the source text that are recursive. Recursiveness is implied by Harvey (1995) himself as a criterion: he suggests randomness and talks of a 'comparable number' of effects distributed throughout the target text, since, when it comes to generalized compensation, "the 'equivalence' of specific effects is secondary to the achievement of a balance of tone across the entire text" (ibid:68). Hence, some good candidates for this type of compensation would be: register or the level of diction (e.g.…”

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Dante’s Puns in English and the Question of Compensation

Crisafulli

1996

The Translator

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A Descriptive Framework for Compensation

Cited by 39 publications

References 2 publications

Creatures of Habit? What Translators Usually Do with Words

Creatures of Habit? What Translators Usually Do with Words

The translation of wordplay in interlingual subtitling

Dante’s Puns in English and the Question of Compensation

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