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Divisions, description and applications

The interface between DTS, corpus-based research and contrastive analysis
  • Rosa Rabadán
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Abstract

The intersections of DTS with other related disciplines can provide potential sources of enrichment that go beyond the usual methodological divisions. This seems to be the case of corpus-based contrastive analysis which, while sharing procedures and research protocols that are properly referred to as descriptive, emerges as a valuable tool for applied translation purposes. This paper sets out to outline the ACTRES corpus-based research procedure for identifying the reasons underlying language-pair problems in translation, and analyzing the problematic areas in an application-oriented way. The aim is to establish cross-linguistic regularities and to formulate an inventory of descriptively correct translation options/solutions. These constitute the basis for application building.

Abstract

The intersections of DTS with other related disciplines can provide potential sources of enrichment that go beyond the usual methodological divisions. This seems to be the case of corpus-based contrastive analysis which, while sharing procedures and research protocols that are properly referred to as descriptive, emerges as a valuable tool for applied translation purposes. This paper sets out to outline the ACTRES corpus-based research procedure for identifying the reasons underlying language-pair problems in translation, and analyzing the problematic areas in an application-oriented way. The aim is to establish cross-linguistic regularities and to formulate an inventory of descriptively correct translation options/solutions. These constitute the basis for application building.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. 1. Theory
  5. What is a unique item? 3
  6. Five reasons why semiotics is good for Translation Studies 15
  7. Translation Studies and Transfer Studies 27
  8. Modelling translator’s competence 41
  9. 2. Methodology
  10. Notes for a cartography of literary translation history in Portugal 59
  11. Establishing an online bibliographic database for Canadian Literary Translation Studies 73
  12. The role of technology in translation management 85
  13. Establishing rigour in a between-method investigation of SI expertise 99
  14. 3. Empirical Research
  15. Translation revision 115
  16. Translational analysis and the dynamics of reading 127
  17. The effect of translation on humour response 137
  18. SAT, BLT, Spirit Biscuits, and the Third Amendment 153
  19. Reception, text and context in the study of opera surtitles 169
  20. What makes interpreters’ notes efficient? 183
  21. Traduction, genre et discours scientifique 199
  22. 4. Linguistics-based
  23. Evaluative noun phrases in journalism and their translation from English into Finnish 213
  24. Translating the implicit 223
  25. Divisions, description and applications 237
  26. A clivagem no português 253
  27. Construals in literary translation 267
  28. Phraseologie und Übersetzung unter Anwendung von Parallelkorpora 281
  29. The relevance of utterer-centered linguistics to translation studies 297
  30. 5. Literature-based
  31. De la question de la lisibilité des traductions françaises de Don Quijote 311
  32. Collusion or authenticity 323
  33. Translators’ agency in 19th-century Finland 335
  34. Le concept de mimésis 347
  35. Name index 357
  36. Subject index 359
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