Translation universals : do they exist? / edited by Anna Mauranen, Pekka Kujamaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mauranen, Anna.

Kujamäki, Pekka.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 48.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Linguistic universals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translation universals is one of the most intriguing and controversial topics in recent translation studies. Can we discover general laws of translation, independent of the particularities of individual translations? Research into this is new: serious empirical work only began in the late nineties. The present volume offers the state of the art on the issue. It includes theoretical discussion on alternative conceptualisations and new distinctions around the basic concepts. Several papers test hypotheses on universals in the light of recent work in different languages, and some suggest new ones emerging from empirical work over the last two to three years. The book contributes to the search for generalities in translation, the methodological solutions available, and presents emerging evidence on the kinds of regularities that large-scale research is bringing forth. On a more practical level, the applicability of the hypotheses and findings to translator education is, as always, a concern for translation studies.

Contents:

Translation Universals

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Introduction

References

Part 1. Conceptualising universals

Probabilistic explanations in translation studies

1. Introduction

2. Universals should not be sought on too concrete a level

3. Universals shouldn't be sought on too high a level either

4. Would the presence of ``shifts'' constitute a universal?

5. Probabilistic thinking in translation studies

6. The format of a conditioned statement in translation studies

7. Drawing some conclusions

Notes

Beyond the particular*

2. The prescriptive route

3. The pejorative route

4. The descriptive route

Note

When is a universal not a universal?

1. Introduction: universals and DTS

2. Methodological issues in corpus-based DTS

3. Issues in translation corpus design and construction: the CEXI example

3.1. Preliminary norms 1: non-fiction

3.2. Preliminary norms 2: fiction

4. Conclusion

Part 2. Large-scale tendencies in translated language

Corpora, universals and interference

2. Interference and its manifestations

3. Interference or transfer - is there a difference?

4. The Corpus of Translated Finnish

5. Comparing the corpora

6. Findings

7. Conclusion

Untypical frequencies in translated language

2. From norms to laws

3. Use of referative, temporal and final constructions in translated and non-translated texts

3.1. Data

3.2. Results

4. Discussion

Untypical patterns in translations

2. Synonyms and the study of translations

2.1. Earlier studies on synonymity in translations

2.2. Lexical and grammatical patterning of synonyms.

3. Methodology and data of the present study

3.1. Three-Phase Comparative Analysis (TPCA): a corpus-based method for investigating the impact of a source language in translations

3.2. Statistical procedures employed to analyse the similarity and difference

4. Quantitative analysis of the three most frequent boosters across corpora

5. Lexical associations of synonymous modifiers hyvin, kovin and oikein

6. Further analysis: grammatical associations of hyvin

7. Discussion

Part 3. Testing the basics

Translation-specific lexicogrammar?

2. Material, aim and method

3. Results

4. Summary and conclusion

Explicitation

2. Background

2.1. Explicitation

2.2. Definitions and hypotheses

3. Methods

3.1. Selection, structure and size of the corpus

3.2. Methods

4. Results and discussion

4.1. The explicitation strategies

4.2. Shifts in explicitness

4.3. Type/token ratio in the comparable corpus

5. Conclusions

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Explicitation of clausal relations

2. Explicitation of clausal relations

3. Material and method

4. Results

4.1. Connectives more frequent in translations

4.2. Connectives more frequent in Finnish originals

5. Conclusion

Unique items - over- or under-represented in translated language?

2. Purpose

Part 4. Universals in the translation class

What happens to ``unique items'' in learners' translations?

2. Unique items

3. Design of the translation test

4. ``Unique items'' in learners' translations?

5. First explanations

6. A control test

7. Concluding remarks

Notes.

Appendix 1: The source texts of the present experiment

SE TAVALLINEN TALVINEN TARINA

WINTER, O WEH!

AN ORDINARY WINTER'S TALE

Appendix 2: Front page of a local Volkswagen customer leaflet. 2

The fate of ``The Families of Medellín''

2. Research design

3. Source text analysis

4. Student translations

5. Concluding remarks

Author index

Subject index

The BENJAMINS TRANSLATION LIBRARY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612160684

9781282160682

1282160680

9789027295835

9027295832