scholarly journals Problems Related to the Translation of Political Texts

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
Krisztina Sárosi-Márdirosz
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Special Language

AbstractThis study deals with the problems related to the translation of political texts in the theoretical framework elaborated by the researchers working in the field of translation studies and reflects on the terminological peculiarities of the special language used for this text type. Consideration of the theoretical framework is followed by the analysis of a specific text spoken then written in English and translated into Hungarian and Romanian. The conclusions are intended to highlight the fact that there are no recipes for translating a political speech, because translation is not only a technical process that uses translation procedures and applies transfer operations, but also a matter of understanding cultural, historical and political situations and their significance.

scholarly journals Lexical Strategies in Intralingual Translation between Registers

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (54) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aage Hill-Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Patient Information ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Pharmaceutical Product ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Package Inserts ◽  
Patient Information Leaflets ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
Product Specifications

<p>Being concerned with (what has hitherto been) a marginal and under-researched area of Translation Studies, viz. intralingual translation, this paper focuses on the particular type of monolingual rewriting which consists in the transformation of specialized LSP texts into a new text type aimed at lay readership. As a specific example of this type of transformation, the paper investigates the rewriting of pharmaceutical product specifications into medicinal package inserts (so-called patient information leaflets). In Translation Studies terms, in other words, the pharmaceutical texts are treated as source texts and the patient information leaflets as target texts. The paper examines certain core intralingual translation <em>strategies </em>employed to make the specialized information accessible to the non-expert audience. The focus is primarily on strategies employed to convert medical terminology into more lay-friendly wordings. The exact linguistic nature of these strategies is examined, and the ways in which they contribute to target-text lay-friendliness are charted.</p>

scholarly journals Tekst, sekvens og heterogenitet. Introduktion til J.-M. Adams teori om teksttyper

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Finn Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
French Text ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
De Se ◽  
Text Types ◽  
And Function

The present paper gives a critical introduction to the theory of text types or text sequences elaborated by the French text linguist Jean-Michel Adam. The first part of the paper presents the overall theoretical framework for Adam’s research within stylistics and text linguistics. The second part of the paper gives a more detailed discussion of Adam’s answers to what may be defined as the four most crucial questions within text type research, that is: a) the number of text types which can be identified (the classification problem), b) the relation between text types within individual texts, c) the relation between text types and linguistic features and d) the relation between text types and their communicative function (the interaction between form and function).L’objectif de la linguistique textuelle est simple : poursuivre l’analyse lin-guistique au-delà de la phrase complexe et des seuls couples de phrases et, si difficile que cela paraisse, accepter de se situer aux frontières du linguistique dans le but de rendre compte de l’hétérogénéité de toute composition textuelle.

Philosophy of Language, Translation Theory and a Third Way in Semantics

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Shyam Ranganathan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Semantic Minimalism ◽  
The Way

In this paper I address anew the problem of determinacy in translation by examining the Western philosophical and translation theoretic traditions of the last century. Translation theory and the philosophy of language have largely gone their separate ways (the former opting to rebrand itself as “translation studies” to emphasize its empirical and anti-theoretical underpinnings). Yet translation theory and the philosophy of language predominantly share a common assumption that stands in the way of determinate translation. It is that languages, not texts, are the objects of translation and the subjects of semantics. The way to overcome the theoretical problems surrounding the possibility and determinacy of translation is to marry the philosopher of language’s concern for determinacy and semantic accuracy in translation with the notion of a “text-type” from the translation theory literature. The resulting theory capable of explaining determinacy in translation is what I call the text-type conception of semantics (TTS). It is a novel alternative to the salient positions of Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism in the contemporary philosophy of language.

Cultural Conceptualizations, Semantics and Translation

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 2169
Author(s):  
Sajjad Kianbakht
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Frame Semantics ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Linguistic Barriers

Cultural conceptualizations are ‘negotiated’ and ‘renegotiated’ across time and space by different generations of speakers so that the members of the group are able to think, so to speak, in one mind (Sharifian, 2008b). What helps us to go beyond the linguistic barriers and consequently incorporate cognitive and cultural conceptualizations to the study of translation is the notion of Frame Semantics Theory which itself is a nascent approach in Translation Studies. Using Rojo’s analytical model (2002b), which focuses on the frames and cultural conceptualizations activated in the humorous texts, this research investigates certain translation problems that may occur in translating cultural elements of the book; "Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America" by Firoozeh Dumas (2003). Furthermore, the present research considers and examines several translation challenges under six sub-frames: Visual Frames, Situational Frames, Text type frames, Social frames, Institutional frames, and Generic frames. Upon analysis of the text and its corresponding translation, 70 problematic cases were detected, analyzed and then classified according to Rojo’s model (2002).

scholarly journals The purification of violence and the translation of fairy tales: a corpus-based study

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cybelle Saffa Soares
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

This study aims to investigate the translation of violence, to propose and to analyse the translation strategies of English Fairytales (EFT) to the Portuguese language. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the interface of Corpus-based Translation Studies (CTS) and Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). Klingberg (1986) purification concept adapted as translation strategies proposed by Chesterman (1997). For the alignment and corpus analysis, it is used COPA-TRAD – Parallel Corpus for translation research (Fernandes, L. & Silva, 2014). The analysis revealed that the target text had been translated under the moral and religious motivational factors of the source culture because the literature translated in Brazil still had to comply with the Portuguese requirements for translating for children (Coelho, 1987).

scholarly journals Corpus-based Critical Translation Studies: Research Areas and Approaches

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-603
Author(s):  
Kaibao Hu ◽  
Xiaoqian Li
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Critical Translation

This paper discusses the origin, features, research areas, and approaches, as well as the implications, of corpus-based critical translation studies (CCTS), with a view to establishing a theoretical framework. It is argued that CCTS, born of corpus-based translation studies and critical translation studies, will serve to unveil ideological factors behind the translated texts and the process involved. The birth of CCTS has not only revolutionized the methodology of critical translation studies, but has also broadened its scope.

scholarly journals Translator behaviour and language usage: some constraints on contrastive studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (26) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Ian Mason
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Contrastive Linguistics ◽  
Machine Readable

This article concerns the phenomenon of junction, a cohesive device for signalling inter-clausal or inter-sentential relations, and its translation. The predominant finding of recent French-English contrastive studies on the topic of junction has been that, whereas there is a trend to junction-less juxtaposition in French, explicit co-ordination is preferred in English. Doubts concerning the universal validity of such a norm constitute the motivation for this study, which aims to consider:(1) the status of translator behaviour as evidence of norms of language behaviour;(2) the status of contrastive linguistics within translation studies.Examples of translations of writings by Albert Camus are then discussed in an attempt to show that translators’ decisions are sensitive to a number of contextual factors including genre, discourse and text type. My conclusions lead me to suggest some limitations on the use of quantitative studies within translation studies, including those based on analysis of machine-readable corpora.

The Role of Corpora in Investigating the Linguistic Behaviour of Professional Translators

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Baker
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Individual Source ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

The Translational English Corpus held at the Centre for Translation Studies at UMIST is a computerised collection of authentic, published translations into English from a variety of source languages and by a wide range of professional translators. This resource provides the basis for investigating a range of issues related to the distinctive nature of translated text, the style of individual translators, the impact of individual source languages on the patterning of English, the impact of text type on translation strategies, and other issues of interest to both the translation scholar and the linguist. Most importantly, this concrete resource allows us to develop a framework for investigating the validity of theoretical statements about the nature of translation with reference to actual translation practice.

A Pragmatic Classification of LSP Texts in Science and Technology1

Target ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Göpferich
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Empirical Analyses

Abstract Theoretical approaches towards a classification of texts and empirical analyses of individual text types have been pursued more or less independently of each other. Without reference to a common theoretical framework, the results obtained when analysing individual texts cannot be compared—making it impossible to relate the individual text types to each other, and thus determine the scope of validity of the features which turn out to be characteristic of a group of texts. For this reason, an approach towards a pragmatic text typology is presented which can serve as a framework for the analysis of various LSP text types. In the last part of the paper some implications of this typology for translation studies and translation didactics are described.

TRANSLATIONSTUDIES AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE AND UZBEKISTAN (1991-2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-171
Author(s):  
Azizbek Mukhamedov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Communicative Translation

This article is devoted to the study of history and development of translation studies and the analysis of published scientific works in Uzbekistan during the years of independence. The author also examines historical factors which impacted the development and formation of Translation studies as a science in Europe and Uzbekistan. The article addresses general views of Western and Uzbek scholars on such problems as the linguistic theory of translation, textual interpretation of translation, theoretical framework of literary translation, hermeneutics, communicative translation and main criteria of translation.

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