Aspects of translating gender

Nissen, Uwe Kjær

doi:10.13092/lo.11.914

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“…Since the former group of languages avoids gender inflection, human translators may inadvertently introduce gender biases in their translations. They might choose to use a masculine gender form instead of a feminine one, or vice versa, influenced by implicit stereotypes or prejudices related to their language's means of gender expression (Nissen, 2002). For instance, when translating professional titles such as "doctor" or "nurse", there is a tendency to stereotype which roles are appropriate for men and women (Hamilton, 1988;Gygax et al, 2008;Kreiner et al, 2008).…”

Section: Gender Across Languagesmentioning

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Good, but not always Fair: An Evaluation of Gender Bias for three Commercial Machine Translation Systems

Piazzolla,

Savoldi,

Bentivogli

2024

HJLCB

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Machine Translation (MT) continues to make significant strides in quality and is increasingly adopted on a larger scale. Consequently, analyses have been redirected to more nuanced aspects, intricate phenomena, as well as potential risks that may arise from the widespread use of MT tools. Along this line, this paper offers a meticulous assessment of three commercial MT systems - Google Translate, DeepL, and Modern MT - with a specific focus on gender translation and bias. For three language pairs (English-Spanish, English-Italian, and English-French), we scrutinize the behavior of such systems at several levels of granularity and on a variety of naturally occurring gender phenomena in translation. Our study takes stock of the current state of online MT tools, by revealing significant discrepancies in the gender translation of the three systems, with each system displaying varying degrees of bias despite their overall translation quality.

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Section: Gender Across Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good, but not always Fair: An Evaluation of Gender Bias for three Commercial Machine Translation Systems

Piazzolla,

Savoldi,

Bentivogli

2024

HJLCB

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“…2 The idea to embark on this comparative analysis of various translations of Cortázar's short story stems from footnote 4 in Mey (1991). 3 Translational problems concerning languages that possess grammatical gender and languages that only possess semantic gender have been treated in a number of studies, among others Jacobson (1959), Martín Ruano (2006) and Nissen (2002a).…”

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Challenges and Distortions of Translating Grammatical Gender in Literary Texts: Julio Cortázar Translated into Various European Languages

Nissen¹

2021

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

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With a focus on various translations of the short story ‘Historia con migalas’ by one of the most renowned Latin American writers, the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar, this article describes and exemplifies numerous translational problems with respect to grammatical gender. In spite of the difficulties in Spanish of entirely avoiding gender/ sex references, Cortázar deliberately endeavours (successfully) to hide the gender of the protagonist couple by tricking the reader into a heterosexual, stereotypical mindset until, at the end of the story, he reveals that the couple consists of two women, forcing the reader to reanalyse and reinterpret the entire story. As this article shows, not all translators seem to be aware of Cortázar’s subtle play with grammatical gender, and vice versa - in this case - biological gender and, therefore, entirely miss the quintessence of the story. A relevant question that arises is whether it is possible in the languages under consideration to translate this playing with gender at all, or whether constraints as to the structure of the languages impede it (for example, differences between grammatical gender and natural gender languages). Finally, some evidence is brought forward to address the question of how the (mis)translated short stories were received by reviewers.

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“…Петтерсон [18] та Ю.К. Ніссен [17], ми можемо сформувати три основні стратегії перекладу гендерномаркованих лексичних одиниць:…”

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Особливості Перекладу Гендерно-Маркованих Лексичних Одиниць У Сучасному Англомовному Медійному Дискурсі

Мороз

2023

ВНО

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the issue of gendermarked English vocabulary. The purpose of the work is to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the specifics of the translation of gender-marked lexical units in the English-language media discourse. Gender-marked vocabulary is classified into three main groups. Emphasis is placed on the noticeable tendency of integration of feminitives into business communicative circulation and everyday vocabulary. It is concluded that the neutralization of speech takes place in the English language, while the process of active feminization is observed in the Ukrainian language.It was found that gender-marked lexical units are important elements of communication, as they reflect social stereotypes, role prejudices and beliefs. However, when translating such units from one language to another, difficulties may arise, since each language has its own peculiarities regarding the expression of gender. Accordingly, the work also examines the problems that arise during the translation of gender-marked terms and highlights various approaches to their solution. The article is based on the analysis of various sources, including scientific articles, literature and media texts. The study offers recommendations for effective strategies for translating gendermarked lexical items, including avoiding stereotypes and ensuring compliance with the principles of gender equality.It has been established that one of the most important tasks in the process of translating gender-marked lexical units is the correct use of feminine forms and feminine forms of nouns to denote professions. Using the example of sports vocabulary, the need to distinguish between masculine and

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Aspects of translating gender

Cited by 15 publications

References 2 publications

Good, but not always Fair: An Evaluation of Gender Bias for three Commercial Machine Translation Systems

Good, but not always Fair: An Evaluation of Gender Bias for three Commercial Machine Translation Systems

Challenges and Distortions of Translating Grammatical Gender in Literary Texts: Julio Cortázar Translated into Various European Languages

Особливості Перекладу Гендерно-Маркованих Лексичних Одиниць У Сучасному Англомовному Медійному Дискурсі

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