Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Corpus Selection in Translation Studies

Target ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc van Doorslaer
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Corpus Selection ◽  
Research Criteria ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Although research procedures for translation analysis and comparison are being adapted to the principles of induction and deduction which are necessary in intersubjective research, criteria for corpus selection are often not explicitly motivated. Since hypotheses depend for their reliability on the corpus selected, attention should be paid to the relationship between exhaustiveness and representativeness. Criteria for corpus selection are often either random or textually motivated, while exceptions and deviations in translation often require a qualitative refinement of these criteria such as that obtained from extra-textual information.

scholarly journals Philosophical Translation Analysis of Jeremy Munday’s Introducing Translation Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rofingudin Arrosyid ◽  
Satria Adi Pradana
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Text Reading ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Language Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to investigate the philosophical theory contained in Jeremy Munday's book. The data from this study were obtained from Jeremy Munday's book Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications, published by Routledge, London, 2001. Literature study research method was used by reviewing the philosophy of translation theory from Jeremy Munday's book. After getting the relevant surveyors, the researchers identified the translation philosophy theory contained in the book. From the results of the book's investigations, it was known that some experts were trying to introduce the philosophical theory of modern translation. In contrast, the experts and their fields of study were George Steniner, who researched on the theory of interpretation of meaning, Ezra Pound, who researched on the power of language, Walter Benjamin was about the purity of the translator's task, and Derrida who researched about the relationship between deconstruction translation (text reading method). In addition, there are also several case studies related to the application of the philosophical theory of language strategies put forward by these experts. All of these translation theories discussed the principles of translation and their relation to improving translation studies.

scholarly journals Placing the distant other on the shelf: An analysis and comparison of (fair trade) coffee packages in relation to commodity fetishism

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Robbe Geysmans ◽  
Lesley Hustinx
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Fair Trade Coffee ◽  
Marketing Materials ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fair Trade Organizations ◽  
Ground Coffee

Fair trade has been praised for ‘de-fetishizing’ commodities by providing consumers with information on the production of the commodity. Various empirical studies of fair trade marketing materials have generated critique of this vision. However, these focused on materials produced by engaged fair trade organizations. As the fair trade concept has entered the mainstream, fair trade products have found their way into supermarkets. In this setting, these products are confronted with competition, both internal (with other fair trade products) and external (with non-fair trade products). In this article, we argue for a broader focus when studying the relationship between fair trade and defetishization. Our argument is based on a study of whether and how defetishization is advanced on packages of ground coffee within the retail landscape of Flanders, Belgium. Several categories of packages can be distinguished, based on brand (e.g., fair trade advocate, regular brand, retailer house brand) and label (e.g. fair trade label; other social label; no label, but origin is emphasized in the product name). We demonstrate the difficulty of distinguishing these packages based on the visual and textual information they carry (beyond the label), which complicates the identification of any clearly distinct ‘fair trade message’ on these packages. Instead of serving a clear ‘defetishizing’ function, these messages are mixed, interchanged, and adapted. We argue that this could be a direct consequence of perceived or actual changes in the consumer publics inherent to the mainstreaming of fair trade.

scholarly journals Register in Samuel Beckett’s Writings in English and French:

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Bentolhoda Nakhaei
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Samuel Beckett ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
English Version ◽  
French Version ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
Stylistic Changes

Abstract Samuel Beckett, the Irish author and playwright was born in 1906 in County Dublin, Ireland and died in 1989, in Paris, France. From 1929 to 1989, Beckett wrote letters through which his life is depicted. His letters were published in the form of four volumes entitled as follows: volume I: 1929-1940 (published in 2009), volume II: 1941-1956 (published in 2011), volume III: 1957-1965 (published in 2014), and lastly, volume IV: 1966-1989 (published in 2016). These letters were later translated in French by the publishing house of Gallimard between 2014 and 2018. Within a morpho-semantic framework of analysis, one may wonder to what extent there exists stylistic affinities between his letters and his famous tragicomedy entitled Waiting for Godot (published in 1952). In other terms, are there constant, and/or shared stylistic units? To what extent has the register been changed from his letters to his play? How may the vocabulary, punctuation, and grammar differ from the English version of Waiting for Godot to the French version? Do these stylistic changes from English to French affect the notions of 20th-century man in the society in France? By drawing on certain theories of theoreticians in linguistics and translation studies such as Brian T. Fitch, Anthony Uhlmann, and Saeid Rahipour, this research seeks to present a linguistic and translation analysis of Beckett’s register in his four volumes of letters and English, and French versions of his play Waiting for Godot. Hence, this study aims to investigate the extent to which the Irish writer’s register has been differentiated in the corpus under study by the passage of time to suit the stylistic norms of 20th century in France and England.

Religion and Representation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Rzepa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Book History ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This review is divided into three sections: 1. Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914; 2. Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy; 3. ‘Translation and Religion: Crafting Regimes of Identity’, a thematic issue of Religion edited by Hephzibah Israel and Matthias Frenz. Taken together, these works provide an overview of approaches that demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary research into religion and representation. Drawing on the disciplines of social, political, and cultural history, literary studies, book history, theology, religious studies, translation studies, and postcolonial studies, they highlight the importance of research that contextualizes the relationship between religion and representation, bringing attention to its historically overlooked aspects.

scholarly journals The Linkage between Sentiments and Stock Market Dynamics New Evidence from Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Heshmatollah Asgari ◽  
Hamed Najafi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Screening Method ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Investor Sentiment ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Research Criteria ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, the issue of financial behaviour and the impact of investors’ sentiments on their decision making have become such a popular issue. The sentiments of financial activists affect the market price of financial assets and particularly stocks, and therefore it is included in the new pricing models of capital assets. In this article, we seek the effect of investors’ sentiments on the dynamics of the Iranian stock market (TSE). To do this, among the companies accepted in the stock market we select 120, considering the research criteria and screening method, we examined TSE specifics throughout 2010-2018 using regression analysis and causality test. Our results show that firstly investors’ sentiments have a direct effect on the stock returns and there is a bilateral relationship between them. Secondly, inflation has the opposite effect and economic growth has a direct and positive effect on the relationship between investor sentiment and stock returns. Finally, government spending has no significant effect on the relationship between investor sentiment and stock returns.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Translator’s Visibility: Does Visibility Bring Rewards?

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fung-Ming Christy Liu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

There has been a huge revival of interest in the role of translators and their visibility. Some Translation Studies scholars have mobilized French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theorical concepts of field, habitus and capital to carry out empirical research studies in an attempt to understand how translators or interpreters perceive their roles and what kind of capital they pursue. This article presents part of the findings from a large empirical study in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in an attempt to carry out a thorough investigation of translators’ visibility, understood as the capacity to communicate directly with clients and/or end-users. The present article reports on the quantitative analysis of the relationship between translator’s visibility and the amount of capital that they say they receive. The analysis is based on 193 Chinese translators in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. The findings suggest that visibility is rewarding in terms of social exchanges and learning experience, but not in terms of pay and prestige. In addition, the analysis shows that some social variables including sex, level of education, region that the translator lives in, the translator’s major field of study and the time spent on translation are not related to visibility or capital received. Meanwhile, the appearance of the translator’s name on translations is significantly related to the capital received.

Translating Greek plays for the theatre today

Target ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Reciprocal Influences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Creation

This essay discusses the relationship between form, language, rewriting and performance in the contemporary staging of ancient Greek drama, with special attention to the range of working practices of the translators, rewriters and theatre practitioners that are involved in the performance creation process. The discussion is framed by questions about the reciprocal influences of research in translation studies and in classics and about how both can best engage with the insights offered by performance praxis.

Understanding practice generalisation – opening the research/practice gap

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Nørreklit ◽  
Lennart Nørreklit ◽  
Falconer Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pragmatic Constructivism ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Research Criteria ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance the relationship between research and practice. It addresses the question: How can practitioners’ use of generalisations be understood, with a view towards producing research-based generalisations that facilitate use in practice? Design/methodology/approach Language games are used to explore generalisation in practice, and the framework of pragmatic constructivism is adopted to characterise the generation of practice generalisation. Findings Practice is conceptualised as a complex set of clusters of organised actions run by a set of applied generalisations and driven by human intentions. Practice also encompasses reflective activities that aim to create the generalisations and reflect them into the specific circumstances to create functioning practice. Generalisations depend on underlying concepts. The formation and structure of concepts is explored and used to create the construction and use of different types of generalisation. Generalisations function as cognitive building blocks in constructing strings of interconnected functioning activities. Managers make their own functioning generalisations that, however, do not satisfy the research criteria for acceptable generalisations. The research/practice gap is shaped by the very different language games played. Research limitations/implications If research is to be useful to practice, the generalisations produced must methodologically articulate the types of generalisation that pervade the methods with which practitioners construct functioning activities. Further research has to give more insight into such processes. Originality/value The paper contributes insight into both the generalisation debate and the research/practice gap debate.

scholarly journals Translation spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Hamaidia ◽  
Sarah Methven ◽  
Jane Woodin
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Fluid Exchange ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Practice

Abstract This article addresses the relationship between translation, intercultural communication and international development practice as encountered in the field. Through tracing parallel developments in the academic fields of translation studies and intercultural communication studies, it highlights the move from static concepts of language, nation, and culture to the fluid exchange spaces of multilingual and intercultural encounters. In-the-field examples of international development challenges are examined and discussed in the light of these theoretical shifts. We propose (a) that both fields of study can learn from each other, (b) that translation training should account for the messy intercultural spaces of contact zones, and (c) that guidance on intercultural practice be further developed to benefit those working in the field.

scholarly journals A Labour Useful to Students: Contrasting Perspectives on Teaching Translation Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Harry Aveling
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Translation Pedagogy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Constructivist Approach

Translation Pedagogy is one of the most under-developed fields of Translation Studies. This paper will provide an introduction to three different approaches to the teaching of Translation: the Classical European, the “transmissionist” approach and the contemporary “social constructivist” approach. The paper will show how the relationship between teacher and student varies in each of these models

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