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Volume 12, Issue 2, 2000
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Poor Relations and Black Sheep in Translation Studies
Author(s): Dominic Stewartpp.: 205–228 (24)More LessThe opposition of translation into the mother tongue (L1 translation) vs.translation into the foreign language (L2 translation),with its clear relationship of superiority/inferiority in translation circles,is just one of a series of binary oppositions prevalent in the literature with an apparently similar relationship.These include principally (i)target language vs.source language,and (ii) original texts vs.translated texts.This paper examines what implications such oppositions might have for the L1 translation vs.L2 translation issue,particularly within the developing field of corpus linguistics,subsequently taking a look at some L1 and L2 translations and reflecting upon their degree of acceptability or unacceptability in the light of the discussions proposed .
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Politeness in Translation between English and Spanish
Author(s): Leo D. Hickeypp.: 229–240 (12)More LessIf we accept Brown and Levinson’s distinction between positive and negative politeness, it would seem justifiable to accept also that Britain tends to be a negative-politeness society whereas Spain tends towards positive politeness. The paper asks how positive-politeness readers (Spaniards) react to examples of negative (or English) politeness when translated literally. It reports on a small-scale experiment carried out to see how such readers reacted to translations from English of samples of negative politeness and poses the question whether translators (continue to) translate the locutionary dimension (the words) of such texts rather than attempt to convey the illocutionary force (the acts of politeness being performed).
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Towards a Methodology for Investigating the Style of a Literary Translator
Author(s): Mona Bakerpp.: 241–266 (26)More LessTranslation studies has inherited from literary studies its preoccupation with the style of individual creative writers and from linguistics the preoccupation with the style of social groups of language users. It also inherited from both disciplines the association of style with ‘original’ writing. Little or no attention has been paid so far to the possibility of describing the ‘style’ of a translator or group of translators in terms of what might be distinctive about the language they produce. This paper offers a first attempt to outline a methodological framework for investigating the question of style in literary translation — not in the traditional sense of whether the style of a given author is adequately conveyed in the relevant translation but in terms of whether individual literary translators can be shown to use distinctive styles of their own.
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Translation, Normalisation and Identity in Galicia(n)
Author(s): Carmen Millan-Varelapp.: 267–282 (16)More LessThis article approaches the role and position of literary translation in the Galician context during the 20th century. The socio-linguistic situation of the native language, Galego (Galician), and the asymmetrical relations of power with respect to Castilian have been shaping and determining the dynamics of translation, and, to a certain extent, Galician cultural life in general. Translation therefore appears as a crucial and ambiguous activity, both contributing to the process of linguistic and cultural normalisation but also revealing the lingering weakness of the target language. Translation therefore becomes a powerful mirror on which to contemplate pressing domestic debates on language and identity.
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The Concept of Text Type and Its Relevance to Translator Training
Author(s): Isabel García Izquierdopp.: 283–295 (13)More LessThe aim of this paper is to show the relevance that a correct interpretation of text types in the mother tongue has for the correct development of the translating activity by translator trainees. This paper briefly analyzes the results of a classroom activity in which students were asked to identify the text-type ascription of two texts. They were first-year students in the Translation and Interpreting program at the Jaume I University in Castellón (Spain). The results confirm, on the one hand, existing differences in the comprehension and interpretation of text types and, on the other hand, that the confusion that exists in practice between the concepts of text type and genre (Hatim and Mason 1990) may also be observed in the case of these students.
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The History of Research into Conference Interpreting: A Scientometric Approach
Author(s): Daniel Gilepp.: 297–321 (25)More LessQuantitative analysis of the literature of conference interpreting research (CIR) highlights interesting features of its historical evolution. Paradigm shifts in the seventies and late eighties have intensified its overall production and are associated with the disappearance of some major production centers and the emergence of others. The total population of authors has increased over the years, but only a few dozen have shown long-term productive research activity, and much CIR is conducted independently of any academic institution. Institutional and economic factors seem to account for limitations in the development of CIR so far. Empirical studies represent only a small proportion of the total CIR production, but their proportion in M. A. and graduation theses is far higher. Limitations of quantitative analysis without a qualitative component are highlighted, and suggestions are made for further explorations along the way.
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Are Menu Translations Getting Worse?: Restaurant Menus in English in the Tarragona Area
Author(s): Carmina Fallada Pougetpp.: 323–332 (10)More LessTranslations of restaurant menus from Catalan or Spanish into English are important for the Catalan restaurant industry and for tourism in general, since an improvement in the quality of the translations may lead to higher standards of service and better socio-cultural exchanges. A sample of 1013 menu items from the Tarragona area suggests there are differences in functionality between the menus translated in the 1970s/1980s and those translated in the 1990s. A possible reason for these differences is that all the menus from the 1970s/80s were translated by professional translators, and those from the 1990s, by non-professional translators. The study also suggests that books on menu translations published by the Catalan government in 1991 did not reach the restaurant owners and that official translation policy in this area has thus had little effect.
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