A systemic functional translation analysis of thematic structure: directing attention to Yoda's linguistic manifestation

Espindola, Elaine

doi:10.1080/00437956.2016.1141938

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“…The engagement of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) with translation studies started with Halliday's (1956Halliday's ( , 1962 early investigation of machine translation and Catford's (1965) application of Halliday's (1961) scale and category theory to construct a linguistic model of translation. As has been verified in various studies, SFL is capable of analysing and interpreting texts of different types and their translations, such as advertisements (Steiner, 2004), scientific writings (Veroz, 2017), film subtitles (Espindola, 2016), novels (Wang, 2007), dramas Ma, 2018, 2020), and political texts (Munday, 2018).…”

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Description and Quality Assessment of Poetry Translation: Application of a Linguistic Model

Wang

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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This article presents a linguistic model, based on systemic functional linguistics (SFL), for describing and comparing poetry translations. The proposed model takes both the form and meaning of poetry into consideration and involves linguistic analyses at the levels of graphology, phonology, lexicogrammar and context. To illustrate the applicability of the model, we offer an analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s Stray Birds in English and its three Chinese translations, point out the choices made by Tagore and the translators at different levels, and discuss the translation shifts in the target texts. On the basis of a contextual analysis, we relate the target texts with the Chinese norms of translation and comment on the quality of the translations. Our intention is to prove that linguistic theories offer a powerful tool for analysing poetry translation and offer new possibilities in translation studies from the perspective of SFL.

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Description and Quality Assessment of Poetry Translation: Application of a Linguistic Model

Wang

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Translation Studies Around the World

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Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics

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Verbal art in translation: A Hasanian perspective on The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

2021

Language Sciences

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A systemic functional translation analysis of thematic structure: directing attention to Yoda's linguistic manifestation

Abstract: To cite this article: Elaine Espindola (2016) A systemic functional translation analysis of thematic structure: directing attention to Yoda's linguistic manifestation, WORD, 62:1, 22-34,

Cited by 6 publications

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Description and Quality Assessment of Poetry Translation: Application of a Linguistic Model

Description and Quality Assessment of Poetry Translation: Application of a Linguistic Model

Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Translation Studies Around the World

Verbal art in translation: A Hasanian perspective on The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

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