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'Life is Baseball' vs. 'A Vida é Futebol': The Translation of Sport-Specific Metaphors from English to European and Brazilian Portuguese
Get PDFSoccer is the most popular sport in Brazil and Portugal, while in the United States (US) it is baseball. An incredible number of metaphors and idioms are generated in the languages where these sports are played. Due to their cultural specificity, such expressions are particularly difficult to translate, and thus constitute a significant challenge for both machine and human translators (HTs). This paper explores the different possibilities available for the translation of metaphorical baseball expressions from English to Portuguese. The study is based on the TV Corpus, plus a corpus previously compiled by the author. The translations produced by three freely available online MT systems (Google, DeepL and Systran) will be compared with HTs used in the subtitles of TV-series, including both Brazilian and European Portuguese subtitles. The results of the analysis show that sports-related metaphorical and idiomatic expressions remain a blind spot for English-Portuguese MT systems
El reto de las metáforas deportivas: Traducción automática vs. Traducción humana. The challenge of translating sports metaphors: Machine Translation vs. Human Translation
Get PDFThis paper studies different possibilities for translating sports metaphors in fictional TV series. The study focuses on 'The TV-Corpus' and a corpus compiled by the author in previous works on Internet TV series. The analysis focuses on the translation of this type of expression carried out by humans, on the one hand, and machines, on the other. I compare the translations of these systems with some human translations provided in the translated subtitles broadcast in the corresponding series from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and others. The analysis aims to study the metaphorical dimension of the expression and compare the results obtained by the different translations performed by the MT systems and by a human translator. Finally, I discuss the scope and limits of MT systems to achieve adequate and accurate translations of metaphors and idiomatic expressions compared with the possibilities of human translation. The analysis results show that metaphorical and idiomatic expressions remain a blind spot of machine translation. Hence, a quality translation depends on the human factor, either through post-editing or direct human translation. Key words: machine translation, human translation, metaphor, idiom, sports, internet TV-series, subtitling
Metaphorical dimension of idioms in TV series for German, Norwegian and Spanish audiences
Get PDFOver recent years, internet TV series have grown in popularity to become one of the audiovisual products with the highest audiences worldwide. The Covid crisis, with limitations on movement, has further increased their success during 2020-21. English is by far the most common language for such productions, which are typically offered to non-anglophone viewers in translated format, with either subtitles or dubbing. One of the main challenges in translation here concerns the use of idioms, since these do not always have a fixed equivalent in the target language. Taking as a starting point a corpus of drama series from Netflix and Amazon Prime, this study considers the metaphorical dimension of idioms in original TV series in English and the subtitling of these in German, Norwegian and Spanish. The aim is to analyze the strategies used in the translation process, and to look at the differences between the original dialogues and the translated subtitles. The data are described from a cognitive and contrastive perspective, according to the methodology developed by the author. The results of the analysis show a general trend towards the reduction of metaphorical expressions in the translated subtitles. Significant differences are found between the translations into the three target languages under examination. A surprising finding is that there are more similarities between the German and Spanish translations than between those into German and Norwegian, despite these latter two belonging to the same Germanic linguistic family
¿Se te ha ido la olla? o ¿você é maluco? vs. are you (fucking) nuts?: La traducción de locuciones del inglés en series de TV por internet.
No full textLas series de TV por internet se han convertido en uno de los productos audiovisuales
de mayor audiencia a nivel mundial. La crisis ocasionada por el Covid-19 con las largas
cuarentenas y otras limitaciones del movimiento de las personas han incrementado su éxito
durante 2020-21. El inglés es con diferencia el idioma original de estas series, que llega a
los espectadores no anglófonos en formato traducido, con subtítulos o doblaje. Uno de los retos
fundamentales en la traducción es el de las LOCUCIONES, ya que no siempre tienen un equivalente
fijo en la lengua meta. Tomando como punto de partida de la investigación un corpus de cuatro
series de drama, ofrecidas por Netflix y Amazon Prime, este trabajo estudia la dimensión
metafórica de las locuciones en series de TV originales en inglés y los subtítulos en español y
portugués. El objetivo es analizar las estrategias utilizadas en el proceso de traducción y
estudiar las diferencias desde un punto de vista metafórico e idiomático entre los diálogos
originales y los subtítulos traducidos tanto para España y Portugal como para América. Los
datos se describen desde una perspectiva cognitiva y contrastiva, de acuerdo con la metodología
desarrollada por Labarta Postigo (2020). Los resultados del análisis muestran una tendencia
general hacia la reducción de expresiones metafóricas en los subtítulos traducidos. El análisis
contrastivo pone de relieve que puede haber menos diferencias entre las traducciones a las dos
lenguas, que entre aquellas a las variedades de una misma lengua
Linguistische Eigenschaften und Verständlichkeit von Software-Dokumentationen eine anwendungsorientierte Untersuchung
No full text¿Se te ha ido la olla? o você é maluco? vs. are you (fucking) nuts?: La Traducción de locuciones del inglés en series de TV por internet / ¿Se te ha ido la olla? or você é maluco? vs. are you (fucking) nuts?: The Translation of English idioms in internet TV series
Get PDFLas series de TV por internet se han convertido en uno de los productos audiovisuales de mayor audiencia a nivel mundial. La crisis ocasionada por el Covid-19 con las largas cuarentenas y otras limitaciones del movimiento de las personas han incrementado su éxito durante 2020-21. El inglés es con diferencia el idioma original de estas series, que llega a los espectadores no anglófonos en formato traducido, con subtítulos o doblaje. Uno de los retos fundamentales en la traducción es el de las LOCUCIONES, ya que no siempre tienen un equivalente fijo en la lengua meta. Tomando como punto de partida de la investigación un corpus de cuatro series de drama, ofrecidas por Netflix y Amazon Prime, este trabajo estudia la dimensión metafórica de las locuciones en series de TV originales en inglés y los subtítulos en español y portugués. El objetivo es analizar las estrategias utilizadas en el proceso de traducción y estudiar las diferencias desde un punto de vista metafórico e idiomático entre los diálogos originales y los subtítulos traducidos tanto para España y Portugal como para América. Los datos se describen desde una perspectiva cognitiva y contrastiva, de acuerdo con la metodología desarrollada por Labarta Postigo (2020). Los resultados del análisis muestran una tendencia general hacia la reducción de expresiones metafóricas en los subtítulos traducidos. El análisis contrastivo pone de relieve que puede haber menos diferencias entre las traducciones a las dos lenguas, que entre aquellas a las variedades de una misma lengua
Análisis crítico de las prácticas discursivas en torno al plan de reforma de la muralla árabe en el centro histórico de Valencia
No full textE ste artículo pretende acercarse a la problemática causada por un plan urbanístico en el centro histórico de Valencia: el de recuperación de la muralla árabe del barrrrio del Carmen. Partimos del Análisis Crítico de Discurso (ACD ) como marco metodológico y nos planteamos como objetivo analizar las prácticas discursivas procedentes de los grgrupos enfrentados a causa del plan urbanístico. Ello nos permitirá participar en una dialéctica de discursos en conflicto y revelar de qué manera construyen su identidad los diferentes actores sociales implicados
ChatGPT and MT-Systems: Advantages and Limitations when Translating English to Spanish and Portuguese
No full textThe translation landscape is changing significantly with the advent of genAI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT. Machine translation (MT) systems have been at the forefront of translation technology since the 1950s, but the new genAI models represent a transformative shift. This study explores the advantages and limitations of translating English to Portuguese and Spanish using Machine Translation (MT) systems and ChatGPT. MT systems have improved significantly over the last years, and large language models (LLMs), democratized recently by ChatGPT, have also recently proved to be effective at translating text. Nevertheless, these systems still face challenges in accurately capturing different languages' cultural specificities, nuances, and complexities. This paper analyzes translations performed by various chatbots and MT systems, including Systran, Google Translation, DeepL, Chat AI GPT (free), Bing Chatbot (powered by ChatGPT), and Google's Bard. The data analysis is presented from a cognitive and contrastive perspective, following the author's recent methodology. The aim is to evaluate their overall performance and effectiveness. The results reveal that translating from English to Spanish and Portuguese presents significant challenges for all systems and tools, including grammatical and semantical issues. Additionally, notable differences have been observed between the translations performed by the MT-Systems and those from genAI chatbots. Finally, this paper will discuss the advantages and limitations of MT-translation systems and their implications for the role of human translators
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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