The Idea of the Hybrid Text in Translation: Contact as Conflict

Schäffner, Christina; Adab, Beverly

doi:10.1556/acr.2.2001.2.1

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“…the target culture" (Schäffner and Adab, 2001). This description seems to be a continuation of G. Toury's views on the translation dominant of the original; however, the authors urge to "differentiate between the true hybrid, which is the result of positive authorial and/or translatorial decisions, and the inadequate text which exhibits features of translationese, resulting from a lack of competence" (Schäffner and Adab, 2001). …”

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Strategies of Rendering English Medical Terminology into Russian Within a Fictional Text

Povoroznyuk¹

2014

Adv. Sci.

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Abstract. This article explores the problem of rendering medical terminology in a fictional text. The findings are based on the comparative analysis of the original and translated versions of "The Signature of All Things" by E. Gilbert (translated into Russian by Yu. Zmeyeva). The aim of the present study is to analyze the translation procedures applied for rendering medical terminology outside of a specialized text, and to evaluate the Russian version in terms of its adequacy and acceptability. To achieve this aim we used the descriptive statistical analysis, distributional analysis of the translation techniques, contrastive analysis in order to evaluate the translation's adequacy and acceptability. Results of the study suggest that medical terminology in fiction is rarely rendered by the direct equivalents or borrowings (26.02%), which are reflected in the etymological discrepancy of the source language (SL) and target language (TL) texts. Among the literal translation techniques calques predominated (49.02% vs. 31.37% -transcriptions and 19.61% -borrowings), while among the oblique translation techniques amplifications took a prominent position (31.72% vs. 10.34% -compressions/reductions, 8.28% -displacements/inversions, 15.86% -transpositions, 9.66% -modulations, 13.11% -variations, 11.03% -discursive creations). Preponderance of amplifications and overall tendency towards oblique rendering signals an acceptability-oriented translation strategy. Keywords: medical terminology, English to Russian, translation, rendering terminology, fiction text. IntroductionDue to a high popular demand for an erudite (intellectual) fiction, a new type of hybrid texts replete with terminological units and possessing rhetorical properties of scientific and technical literature has evolved. However, unlike in the movies and TV-series (Lozano and Matalava 2009, Jaskanen 1999), the ratio of special terminology (in our case, medical), its characteristics and functioning in fiction has never been consistently researched. By extension, the factors influencing the effectiveness of translation when medical terminology is in focus remain unaddressed. Our study is aimed at examining the strategies applied in rendering such texts, allowing us to make a conclusion whether the translation is adequacy-oriented or acceptability-oriented. The hypothesis that the hybrid fictional texts with a high ratio of medical terminology require sense-for-sense, rather than word-for-word translation techniques promoted the study of etymological features of the corresponding terminology in the original and translated versions of "The Signature of All Things" by E Gilbert. Further, a descriptive statistical analysis of literal and oblique translation techniques was made to prove our claim.Presence of the terminology (LSP) has long been considered an indicative feature of scientific and technical texts. However, nowadays we observe the development of a more diversified discourse typology: fiction amalgamates characteristics of the previously disconnected disc...

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Strategies of Rendering English Medical Terminology into Russian Within a Fictional Text

Povoroznyuk¹

2014

Adv. Sci.

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“…The field of translation studies boasts a considerable body of research indicating that translated text consistently differs from native text, to the extent that it is argued by some to be a "hybrid" form that is typical of neither the original nor translated language (Trosborg 1997;Schaffner & Adab 2001). One common finding is that translated texts are simpler and more explicit than native texts with respect to lexicon, discourse structure, and other features (Blum & Levenston 1978;Pápai 2004: 144).…”

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The syllable as a prosodic unit in Japanese lexical strata: Evidence from text-setting

Starr

Shih

2017

Volume 2

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Text-setting, the arrangement of language to music, is a common source of evidence in the debate over the relevance of the syllable in Japanese prosody (e.g., Labrune 2012). Although Japanese text-setting is typically treated as mora-based, the present corpus analysis reveals that syllable-based text-setting is pervasive in Japanese. Two studies presented here compare native Japanese songs with those translated into Japanese. The results demonstrate use of syllabic settings throughout the corpora and across the lexical strata of Japanese. Syllabic settings are shown to arise with greater likelihood in response to pressures imposed by restrictive translation contexts, information density mismatch, and knowledge of correspondence to English loans. We argue that, given the viability of syllabic text-setting in Japanese, moraic text-setting is a stylistic norm of Japanese music that is shifting over time, rather than evidence of a lack of syllable structure in the language's prosodic system.

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“…''…policy-making and legislation within the institutions of the European Union aims at a homogeneous discourse, but in the course of the multilingual negotiations (with or without involvement of translation), the specific linguistic and cultural conventions get mixed up and infiltrate each other'' [18]. Such texts have been described by Anthony Pym as resembling ''a horse-necked feathered girl's head on a fish''!…”

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“…Ideally, provided that he or she was compatible on a professional and personal level with that judge or advocate general, a référendaire would remain working in a cabinet for the full term of his or her employer. Increasingly, however, référendaires tend to remain in that post for a much shorter time than was the norm in the past-nowadays it is common for the staff of a cabinet to change completely 4 See further: Schäffner and Adab [18], p. 169-171. 5 While cabinet may be translated into English as chambers the French term is used throughout this paper for two reasons: first, to avoid confusion with the use of the word Chamber for a subdivision of the Court; secondly, unlike the English word chambers, 'cabinet' in the context of the Court is used to refer both to the judge's or advocate general's suite of rooms and to the staff working there.…”

Section: Référendaires At the Court Of Justicementioning

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Hybrid Texts and Uniform Law? The Multilingual Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union

McAuliffe

2010

Int J Semiot Law

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The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) is shaped by the language in which it is drafted-i.e. French. However, because French is rarely the mother tongue of those drafting that case law, the texts produced are often stilted and awkward. In addition, those drafting such case law are constrained in their use of language and style of writing (owing to pressures of technology and in order to reinforce the rule of law). These factors have led to the development of a 'Court French' which necessarily shapes the case law produced and has implications for its development, particularly insofar as it inevitably leads to a type of precedent in that case law. That case law also undergoes many permutations of translation into and out of up to 23 different languages. The resultant texts that make up the case law are hybrid in nature-consisting of a blend of cultural and linguistic patterns, constrained by a rigid formulistic drafting style and put through many permutations of translation. The present paper investigates the production of the Court's multilingual case law and considers whether the hybrid nature of that case law can actually aid the presentation (and thus the development) of a 'uniform' EU case law.

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The Idea of the Hybrid Text in Translation: Contact as Conflict

Cited by 35 publications

References 10 publications

Strategies of Rendering English Medical Terminology into Russian Within a Fictional Text

Strategies of Rendering English Medical Terminology into Russian Within a Fictional Text

The syllable as a prosodic unit in Japanese lexical strata: Evidence from text-setting

Hybrid Texts and Uniform Law? The Multilingual Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union

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