Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt”
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M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
Abstract
Spanish lacks a construction that parallels the German dative passive, which presents the process from the recipient perspective while often leaving the agent implicit. The main aim of this chapter is to elucidate as to what extent the recipient perspective is maintained, and which voice resources ( genus verbi ) and translation techniques are involved in the translation of German passive constructions between German and Spanish. The evidence for the study is taken from the Parallel Corpus of German and Spanish (PaGeS). When translating sentences which include the bekommen/kriegen variants of the dative passive, translators into Spanish do not maintain the recipient perspective, but opt for, mainly, the agent perspective in about 40% of the examples under scrutiny. In these cases, simplification comes into play as a translation technique.
Abstract
Spanish lacks a construction that parallels the German dative passive, which presents the process from the recipient perspective while often leaving the agent implicit. The main aim of this chapter is to elucidate as to what extent the recipient perspective is maintained, and which voice resources ( genus verbi ) and translation techniques are involved in the translation of German passive constructions between German and Spanish. The evidence for the study is taken from the Parallel Corpus of German and Spanish (PaGeS). When translating sentences which include the bekommen/kriegen variants of the dative passive, translators into Spanish do not maintain the recipient perspective, but opt for, mainly, the agent perspective in about 40% of the examples under scrutiny. In these cases, simplification comes into play as a translation technique.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
- Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
- Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
- Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
- Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
- Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
- Chapter 6. run away! 108
- Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
- Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
- Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
- Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
- Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
- Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
- Index 235
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
- Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
- Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
- Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
- Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
- Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
- Chapter 6. run away! 108
- Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
- Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
- Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
- Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
- Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
- Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
- Index 235
