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Multivariate analyses of affix productivity in translated English

  • Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray
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Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies
This chapter is in the book Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies

Abstract

The productivity and use of derivational affixes in translated English is studied by means of three multivariate techniques: factor analysis, principal component analysis, and correspondence analysis. We argue that principal component analysis and correspondence analysis are the techniques best suited for corpus linguistics by demonstrating how they can offer insights about the interaction between translation-specific features, stylistic factors and affix use in translated English.

Abstract

The productivity and use of derivational affixes in translated English is studied by means of three multivariate techniques: factor analysis, principal component analysis, and correspondence analysis. We argue that principal component analysis and correspondence analysis are the techniques best suited for corpus linguistics by demonstrating how they can offer insights about the interaction between translation-specific features, stylistic factors and affix use in translated English.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Part I. Theoretical exploration
  6. Explicit and tacit 3
  7. Regression analysis in translation studies 35
  8. Hypothesis testing in corpus-based literary translation studies 53
  9. Part II. Essential corpus statistics
  10. Compiling a Norwegian-Spanish parallel corpus 75
  11. Describing a translational corpus 115
  12. Clustering a translational corpus 149
  13. Part III. Quantitative exploration of literary translation
  14. A Corpus study of early English translations of Cao Xueqin’s Hongloumeng 177
  15. Determining translation invariant characteristics of James Joyce’s Dubliners 209
  16. The great mystery of the (almost) invisible translator 231
  17. Part IV. Quantitative exploration of translation lexis
  18. Translation and scientific terminology 251
  19. The games translators play 275
  20. Multivariate analyses of affix productivity in translated English 301
  21. Lexical lectometry in corpus-based translation studies 325
  22. Appendices 347
  23. Index 357
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.51.12jen

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Part I. Theoretical exploration
  6. Explicit and tacit 3
  7. Regression analysis in translation studies 35
  8. Hypothesis testing in corpus-based literary translation studies 53
  9. Part II. Essential corpus statistics
  10. Compiling a Norwegian-Spanish parallel corpus 75
  11. Describing a translational corpus 115
  12. Clustering a translational corpus 149
  13. Part III. Quantitative exploration of literary translation
  14. A Corpus study of early English translations of Cao Xueqin’s Hongloumeng 177
  15. Determining translation invariant characteristics of James Joyce’s Dubliners 209
  16. The great mystery of the (almost) invisible translator 231
  17. Part IV. Quantitative exploration of translation lexis
  18. Translation and scientific terminology 251
  19. The games translators play 275
  20. Multivariate analyses of affix productivity in translated English 301
  21. Lexical lectometry in corpus-based translation studies 325
  22. Appendices 347
  23. Index 357
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