Genre-specific Features of Translationese? Linguistic Differences between Translated and Non-translated Finnish Children's Literature

Puurtinen, Tiina

doi:10.1093/llc/18.4.389

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“…Jantunen's findings in 2001 on synonymous amplifiers in Finnish translations, for instance, do not support the simplification assumption. Puurtinen's (2003) findings on the use of connectives in Finnish children's literature partly contradict the explicitation assumption.…”

Section: Questioningsmentioning

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A Corpus-Based Study on Original English Abstracts and Translated English Abstracts: A Case Study of Passive Voice and Pronouns

Chen¹,

Ye²

2014

IJEL

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On the basis of a large amount of corpus-based studies on translation works, the translation universals hypothesis is proposed. As it claims, translations enjoy some general features and Baker (1993) summarizes them into three universals, namely simplification, explicitation, and normalization, which are supported by many following researches.However, some of the later studies contradict with these rules in several ways, and the usages of passive voice and pronouns are the two most controversial issues. Previous researches suggest that according to the universal features of explicitation and normalization, translated texts tend to have a lower frequency of pronouns while over-representing the passive voice. To examine such claimings, 160 original English abstracts from two leading journals in the field of translation studies, The Translator and Translation Studies, and another 160 English abstracts from Chinese Translator Journal and Chinese Science & Technology Translators Journal, which are translated from Chinese abstracts, are collected. Two corpora are then constructed, namely the Original English Abstracts Corpus (OEAC) and Translated English Abstracts Corpus (TEAC). The CLAWS Part-of-speech Tagger is used to tag the lexical items and word processing tool AntConc 3.2.4 is used for retrieving the words.The comparison between the two corpora suggests that the translated English abstracts contain a lower level of frequency in the use of both passive voice and pronouns, which partially query the hypothesis of explicitation and normalization. A detailed analysis shows a higher frequency of past-tense passives in the OEAC and more passives in perfect tense in the TEAC. The OEAC also contains more relative pronouns while the other contains more indefinite pronouns. The norm theory is utilized to account for such phenomena. The detailed results of the study are expected to shed some lights on professional translating and academic writing.

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Section: Questioningsmentioning

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“…Linguists involved in this project study the translation universals hypothesis on the basis of corpora analysis in a variety of languages, and then relate their findings with the hypothesis proposed by Mona Baker and try to analyze in the light of language structure (Puurtinen, 2003).…”

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A Corpus-Based Study on Original English Abstracts and Translated English Abstracts: A Case Study of Passive Voice and Pronouns

Chen¹,

Ye²

2014

IJEL

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“…For example, several authors found that translated texts in a corpus tend to conform to target language rather than source language patterns and norms. This results in producing more conventional rather than creative target strings (e.g., Kenny, 2000;Puurtinen, 2003). However, the underrepresentation hypothesis, which argues that unique elements in language tended to be underrepresented in translation, was less investigated.…”

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Translating Le Monde and El País English Business Loan Terms into Arabic: A Corpus-based Analysis

Mostafa

2015

JLTR

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Abstract-A major trend in corpus linguistics has been the use of highly specialized corpora to achieve several different purposes, including teaching technical writing, language learning, and teaching translation techniques. This study aims to design and use corpora in order to aid translators master the translation of English business terms used routinely in Le Monde and El Paí s into Arabic. The Le Monde corpus included 456,122 words, while the El Paí s corpus included 874,687. Corpora satisfied several rigorous criteria such as authorship, topic, genre and register. Since translators need a variety of reference sources in order to come up with quality translations, concordance, collocation, and word cluster analyses were performed to reveal how different language patterns are used in their usual contexts. We found that corpora might help translators in navigating across various possibilities of terminologies and expressions, which have to be first decoded prior to being re-coded into the target language. Corpora examples also make the target text more successful in crosscultural communication contexts.

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“…The translation, the recreation of the original text, covers acceptability, one of the most important requirements in translating books for children (see Puurtinen 1995). As Lefevere (1997) and Oittinen (2000) point out, translators are the authors of the translation, which is a new text for new readers.…”

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Translation and Intercultural Education

Pascua

2003

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This paper deals with translated Canadian multicultural literature written for children and its reception in an intercultural education context in Spanish schools. In the first part of the paper I will introduce intercultural education. In the second part, I will examine the role of the translator working in a multicultural environment where texts are written in one language (English) in one country (Canada), then translated into another language (Spanish) and published in Spain. I will also look at the reception of these translations as well as the strategies translators should use to maintain the otherness of the original texts.Dans cette étude, on vise deux objectifs : dans un premier temps, la littérature enfantine canadienne et, dans un deuxième temps, la réception de cette littérature dans les écoles espagnoles, par l’intermédiaire des traductions et dans le cadre d’une éducation interculturelle.Dans la première partie, on précise ce qu’on entend par éducation interculturelle et dans la deuxième, on étudie le nouveau rôle joué par le traducteur qui ne travaille pas seulement avec deux langues et deux cultures, mais avec plusieurs cultures écrites dans une même langue (anglais), dans un même pays (Canada) et traduites dans une autre langue (espagnol). Par conséquent, on retrouve un nouveau traducteur pour une nouvelle littérature et un nouveau lecteur

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Genre-specific Features of Translationese? Linguistic Differences between Translated and Non-translated Finnish Children's Literature

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A Corpus-Based Study on Original English Abstracts and Translated English Abstracts: A Case Study of Passive Voice and Pronouns

A Corpus-Based Study on Original English Abstracts and Translated English Abstracts: A Case Study of Passive Voice and Pronouns

Translating Le Monde and El País English Business Loan Terms into Arabic: A Corpus-based Analysis

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