On Toury's laws of how translators translate

Pym, Anthony

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“…As is proposed, these universals can be studied by comparing translations with non-translations in the same language [15], thus strictly avoiding any foreign interference [16]. The resource exploited is the monolingual comparable corpora for Spanish language extensively described in [10], which comprise three pairs of translated and non-translated texts, as follows:…”

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Identification of Translationese: A Machine Learning Approach

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Pastor

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

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Abstract. This paper presents a machine learning approach to the study of translationese. The goal is to train a computer system to distinguish between translated and non-translated text, in order to determine the characteristic features that influence the classifiers. Several algorithms reach up to 97.62% success rate on a technical dataset. Moreover, the SVM classifier consistently reports a statistically significant improved accuracy when the learning system benefits from the addition of simplification features to the basic translational classifier system. Therefore, these findings may be considered an argument for the existence of the Simplification Universal.

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Identification of Translationese: A Machine Learning Approach

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“…The second explanatory hypothesis mentioned in the previous paragraph has been put forward by Pym (2007) and concerns translator attitude. Pym argues that the common denominator to such features as simplification, explicitation, normalisation, and interference (the latter posited by Toury but not even mentioned by scholars working with a methodology based on comparable corpora) is risk aversion.…”

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“…Be it noted that Baker and other scholars who base their research on comparable corpora do not even mention interference as a translation universal, as source texts are not taken into account. But interference was already put forward by Toury even before electronic corpora became mainstream as a research tool, and has since been taken up by other scholars such as Mauranen (2004Mauranen ( , 2005, Eskola (2004) or Pym (2007). Going back to my point, the COVALT data I have just referred to was flawed in a fundamental way: it was unidirectional, in that it only included source text phraseological units and their corresponding translated segments, without ever proceeding the other way around, i.e., starting from the target texts.…”

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Normalisation and the Translation of Phraseology in the COVALT Corpus1

Marco

2010

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Découvrir la revueCiter cet article Marco, J. (2009). Normalisation and the Translation of Phraseology in the COVALT Corpus. Meta, 54(4), 842-856. https:// doi.org/10.7202/038907arRésumé de l'article Le présent article traite de l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'emploi d'unités phraséologiques dans les textes traduits peut être considéré comme un indicateur d'une tendance vers la normalisation. En effet, les unités phraséologiques sont des formes conventionnelles de la langue cible appartenant au répertoire lexical de cette dernière. Des données puisées dans le sous-corpus anglais-catalan de COVALT (corpus valencien de textes littéraires traduits) indiquent que les textes traduits en catalan sont moins phraséologiques que les textes sources anglais. Toutefois, cette différence est faible, ce qui semble témoigner d'un effort, de la part des traducteurs, pour préserver ou recréer une phraséologie significative dans les textes cibles. Cependant, il faudra mener d'autres études pour identifier les motivations sous-jacentes à cette pratique. RÉSUMÉLe présent article traite de l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'emploi d'unités phraséologiques dans les textes traduits peut être considéré comme un indicateur d'une tendance vers la normalisation. En effet, les unités phraséologiques sont des formes conventionnelles de la langue cible appartenant au répertoire lexical de cette dernière. Des données puisées dans le sous-corpus anglais-catalan de COVALT (corpus valencien de textes littéraires traduits) indiquent que les textes traduits en catalan sont moins phraséologiques que les textes sources anglais. Toutefois, cette différence est faible, ce qui semble témoigner d'un effort, de la part des traducteurs, pour préserver ou recréer une phraséologie significative dans les textes cibles. Cependant, il faudra mener d'autres études pour identifier les motivations sous-jacentes à cette pratique. ABSTRACTIn this article, it is assumed that phraseological usage can be regarded as an indicator of normalisation in translated texts, as phraseological units are target-language standardised forms belonging to its lexical repertoire. Drawing on data yielded by the EnglishCatalan subcorpus of COVALT (Valencian Corpus of Translated Literature), it was found that Catalan translated texts are less phraseological than their corresponding English source texts, though only by a narrow margin. The narrowness of the margin seems to bear witness to some effort on the translators' part to retain or recreate a noticeable degree of phraseological activity in translated texts. However, further research is needed into the motives underlying translator behaviour in this respect.

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“…Ei ole päris selge, mis vahe on lihtsustamisel ja normaliseerimisel või sanitiseerimisel ning millises seoses nad on eksplitseerimise või standardiseerimisega. Nii eksplitseerimine kui lihtsustamine muudavad mõlemad teksti jälgimise lihtsamaks, seega on piir nende vahel üsna ähmane (Pym 2008). Mõistete hägusust tunnistatakse viimase aja uurimustes ikka ja jälle, kuid nende defineerimisele ei ole lähedale jõutud.…”

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Taukar

2012

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat Estonian Papers in Applied Linguistics

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On Toury's laws of how translators translate

Cited by 84 publications

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Identification of Translationese: A Machine Learning Approach

Identification of Translationese: A Machine Learning Approach

Normalisation and the Translation of Phraseology in the COVALT Corpus1

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