News Translation as a Source of Syntactic Borrowing in Italian

McLaughlin, Mairi

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“…This can be illustrated by one of the major strands of my own research which has been to demonstrate the importance of translation for the field of linguistics where it has been all but neglected. This has included, for example, examining the impact of the translation of news on language variation and change today (McLaughlin, 2011a;2013) and in the past (McLaughlin, 2021, pp. 299-338), creating a theoretical model of the types of role that translation can play in language change (McLaughlin, 2011b), and exploring how to account for translator style as a sociolinguistic variable (Davidson and McLaughlin, 2021a;2021b).…”

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The Future of Translation in Higher Education: Introduction to the Special Issue

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2022

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This special issue brings together a set of papers which look to the future of translation in higher education. It is a direct response to the flurry of publications which over the last two decades have highlighted and explored the value of translation as a pedagogical tool in modern language learning. In a now oft-cited early example, Cook (2007, p. 396) decried the marginality of translation in "mainstream applied linguistic and English language teaching theory" and called for a return to translation both in the language classroom and as a "major topic for applied linguistic research". This call echoes through subsequent publications and now, at the start of the third decade of the millennium, there certainly is an ample body of scholarship, theory, and methodology that centers on translation in the language classroom. The changes are so dramatic and the signs so positive that some have gone so far as to speak of a "translation turn" in language teaching (Carreres, Muñoz-Calvo, and Noriega-Sánchez, 2017b, p. 99, our translation). On the ground, however, things are not always so rosy and we are still very far today from a situation in which translation is systematically used in language instruction, especially in the Anglophone countries where translation was long overlooked. Rather than adding to the now numerous calls for the use of translation in the language classroom, the papers in this special issue seek to move the debate forward by exploring what we refer to as the implementation problem and the question of impact. The papers exploring the implementation problem address the gap that can exist between scholarly literature where translation is now valorized and classroom practice where it can often remain marginal. The papers exploring the question of impact, on the other hand, draw attention to the wider effects that the (re-)introduction of translation into the language classroom will have in order to reimagine translation right across higher education. ______________ OVERVIEWThis special issue brings together a set of papers which look to the future of translation in higher education. It is a direct response to the flurry of publications which over the last two decades have highlighted and explored the value of translation as a pedagogical tool in modern language learning. In a now oft-cited early example, Cook (2007, p. 396) decried the marginality of translation in "mainstream applied linguistic and English language teaching theory" and called for a return to translation both in the language classroom and as a "major topic for applied linguistic research". This call echoes through subsequent publications and now, at the start of the third decade of the millennium, there certainly is an ample body of scholarship, theory, and methodology that centers on translation in the language classroom. The changes are so dramatic and the signs so positive that some have gone so far as to speak of a "translation turn" in language teaching (Carreres, Muñoz-Calvo, and Noriega-Sánchez, 2017b, p. 99, our translation)...

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The Future of Translation in Higher Education: Introduction to the Special Issue

McLaughlin¹

2022

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“…In academic literature, the term borrowing refers to the adaptation of foreign lexicon, grammar or syntax into another language (Haspelmath, 2009; McLaughlin, 2013; Meyerhoff, 2011; Trudgill, 2000). Since our research is limited to lexical borrowing, we focus our attention on this single aspect.…”

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Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions

2022

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Italy counts approximately 12 minority groups within its territory. Among these are the Ladins located in the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano. This thesis is the first known sociolinguistic research on English loanword usage in Ladin publications and broadcasts, and individual perceptions of their use. Its findings were acquired from a survey of one Italian Ladin community’s perception of the use of Anglicisms. Combined, we find that many of the English loanwords being borrowed by Ladins are associated with technology, tourism, and business. Moreover, we find that while Ladins are critical of the use of loanwords, they do not perceive English as a threat to the preservation of the Ladin language. In addition, we find our sample is divided over whether new Ladin lexicon should be created to limit borrowing.

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“…Another study by McLaughlin (2013) reveals that syntactic borrowing as the result of the syntactic influence of English has occurred in the news translation in Italian, specifically in the adjective position, passive constructions, and Italian verbal -ndo forms. Unlike Branco, McLaughlin considered that the syntactic borrowing as the result of the syntactic influence has brought less diversity and creativity in the result of the news translation from English to Italian.…”

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Textual Manipulation In National Geographic Indonesia April 2020 Issue

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Udayana

2021

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This study aims to answer problems that occurred as the implication of the application of strategies in translation. The first began with finding out types of translation strategies in journalistic articles. It is then followed by the analysis of how the faithfulness of the source language text was retained in the target language text. The last would be finding out the types of textual manipulation in the target language text. The object in this study is the National Geographic magazine April 2020 issue, both the English and Indonesian versions. A series of qualitative methods were employed in this study, with the library research technique used in collecting the data. This study also employed the referential method in analyzing the data and formal and informal methods in presenting the analyzed data. The result revealed that Chesterman’s translation strategies which were found in the magazine are syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic strategies. As in the case of the faithfulness of TL towards its SL in the National Geographic Indonesia April 2020 issue, it was found that the faithfulness was retained through the application of Chesterman’s syntactic strategies, as well as textual manipulation through the use of the syntactic strategies

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News Translation as a Source of Syntactic Borrowing in Italian

Cited by 16 publications

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The Future of Translation in Higher Education: Introduction to the Special Issue

The Future of Translation in Higher Education: Introduction to the Special Issue

Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions

Textual Manipulation In National Geographic Indonesia April 2020 Issue

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