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Babel - Volume 69, Issue 2, 2023
Volume 69, Issue 2, 2023
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La traducción económico-financiera vista por los profesionales
Author(s): Daniel Gallego Hernándezpp.: 159–187 (29)More LessAbstractThis article presents a mapping of economic translation based on the content of book chapters and articles published by translation professionals, excluding academic publications. Using quantitative and qualitative bibliometric techniques, we analyze a corpus of 115 publications signed by translators, clients, and other specialists and compare their topics with those of academics. First, there is a downward trend in the number of publications by professionals, with the 1995–2005 period being the most productive. The results also show that some of the content discussed is not described in depth or ends up stagnating and differs from that of academics, suggesting that the interests of professionals and academics rarely converge. Suggestions for future improvement measures related to teaching and research are provided to reduce the gap between the two groups of authors.
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Translating explicatures between Arabic and English
Author(s): Marwan Jarrah and Rasheed Al-Jarrahpp.: 188–215 (28)More LessAbstractThis article explores which areas of explicature identification (i.e., disambiguation, reference resolution, saturation, free enrichment, and ad hoc concept constructions) were more attended to in Arabic-English translation. Twenty translators were asked to render from one language into another 50 sentences whose logical form could be enriched by explicatures. Translators were found to attend more to the effects of disambiguation and reference resolution. A demarcation line was drawn between explicatures that called for completing overt logical forms (disambiguation and reference resolution) and those that prompted calculating pragmatic competence and meta-linguistic knowledge (saturation, free enrichment, and ad hoc concept constructions). Using relevance theory as a framework of analysis, we propose that completing overt logical forms is more rewarding and less costly for translators than computing pragmatic competence and meta-linguistic knowledge. The figures corroborated this assumption, which showed that explicature observance was positively correlated with educational attainment and years of experience.
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Estonian and Swedish color idioms – shared and unshared
Author(s): Merle Oguz and Mari Uuskülapp.: 216–241 (26)More LessAbstractPrevious research on color idioms has shown that they are often culture-specific, and translating them requires shifting between cognitive frames of reference. However, little research has been carried out on the translation process of such idioms. We investigated how Swedish color idioms were translated into Estonian by professional translators and novices, tracking the components of the translation process, such as time spent on the tasks, resources used, and the importance of context provided. Finally, we detected eight translation strategies used for idiom translation. The strategies used depended on the idiom’s transparency between the source and target language. The conventionality of the idiom seemed to have little impact on the difficulty experienced. Professionals and novices used different approaches to translation which once again confirms the importance of acquired skills and experience. Color idioms can turn out to be false friends. Focusing first and foremost on the idiomaticity of the target language helps. Professionals searched for the target language idiom and used various monolingual resources in the target language while novices searched mainly for source-language idioms and used no monolingual target language web dictionaries.
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The Little Prince
Author(s): Judith Rosenhousepp.: 242–265 (24)More LessAbstractThis paper studies translations of Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince into Hebrew and Arabic, genealogically related Semitic languages. The discussion in the paper focuses on three questions related to subjects already raised in the translation literature: What does the word count of any translated text contribute to translation study? How does comparing different translations of the same text into the same language contribute to translation research? Will translating one text into genealogically related languages reveal similarities between the translations? The research hypothesizes that (1) similarities and differences will be found between the translations, but (2) they will not affect target language rules. The main findings are that (1) total word sums were smaller in the translations than word sums in the source text. (2) The differences reflect the style and register considerations (formal versus daily lexical and structural elements) rather than grammatical issues. The research hypotheses appear to be correct, at least for these languages.
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The pivotal role of translators’ research in literary translation
Author(s): Xu Minhuipp.: 266–284 (19)More LessAbstractAlthough much recent work in translation studies has focused on translators, the research conducted by translators remains understudied. This study explores translators’ research and its impact on their translations and on translational trust. Taking Jeffrey C. Kinkley – an American translator, historian, and sinologist – as an illustrative case study, this paper investigates Kinkley’s research work, including interviews with the original author, fieldwork-based efforts to verify objects described in the text, research on historical documentation and previous academic studies, and more, resembling the research work of evidential scholarship and ethnographic studies. Kinkley’s research impacts his translations, characterized by inclusive text selection, thick translation strategies, literary and cultural fidelity, and new knowledge creation. A translator’s research provides a solid foundation for accurate and adequate translations, increased visibility, and interactive and dynamic networking among various agents in the translation field, which plays a pivotal role in nurturing translational trust. This investigation into Kinkley’s research work contributes to an in-depth understanding of and objective comments on both translation and translator.
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Review of Šveda (2021): Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training: Perspectives from Central Europe
Author(s): Paweł Korpalpp.: 285–289 (5)More LessThis article reviews Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training: Perspectives from Central Europe
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Review of Lee & Wang (2022): Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic
Author(s): Xichen Sunpp.: 290–294 (5)More LessThis article reviews Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic
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Review of Bai (2022): Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu
Author(s): Xiaodi Wangpp.: 295–300 (6)More LessThis article reviews Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu
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Review of Díaz Cintas & Remael (2021): Subtitling: Concepts and Practices
Author(s): Lisi Liangpp.: 301–304 (4)More LessThis article reviews Subtitling: Concepts and Practices
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Volume 71 (2025)
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