1,721,021 research outputs found
Implicit information in literary translation: A relevance-theoretic perspective
No full textAs an instance of human communication, literary translation operates by certain laws and principles assumed to be built into our human make up. These 'natural laws' of communication give rise to implicit information and are responsible for its special characteristics, such as graded strength of communication and its correlates, including poetic effects. They furthermore determine the interdependence of text, context and successful communication, and limit communicability in incompatible contexts. One important contextual factor consists in what kind of interpretive resemblance the audience expects there to be between original and translation. The ultimate test for a translation is whether or not it achieves with the target audience what the translator intended it to achieve, rather than whether it conforms to some translation-theoretical notion of equivalence
A theoretical account of translation - without a translation theory
No full textIn this paper I argue that the phenomenon commonly referred to as "translation" can be accounted for naturally within the relevance theory of communication developed by Sperber and Wilson (1986a): there is no need for a distinct general theory of translation. Most kinds of translation can be analysed as varieties of interpretive use. I distinguish direct from indirect translation. Direct translation corresponds to the idea that translation should convey the same meaning as the original. It requires the receptors to familiarise themselves with the context envisaged for the original text. The idea that the meaning of the original can be communicated to any receptor audience, no matter how different their background, is shown to be a misconception based on mistaken assumptions about communication. Indirect translation involves looser degrees of resemblance. I show that direct translation is merely a special case of interpretive use, whereas indirect translation is the general case. In all cases the success of the translation depends on how well it meets the basic criterion for all human communication, which is consistency with the principle of relevance. Thus the different varieties of translation can be accounted for without recourse to typologies of texts, translations, functions or the like
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
Utilización de las traducciones ficticias para acelerar cambios culturales
No full textEterio Pajares, Raquel Merino y José Miguel Santamaría (eds). Texto original en inglés traducido por Raquel Merino Álvarez. Texto disponible en http://www.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/fict.htmLa creación y utilización de traducciones ficticias (también conocidas como pseudotraducciones) es un tipo recurrente de comportamiento cultural. Así, en un repertorio cultural existente, los nuevos modelos consiguen entrar disfrazados de traducciones que se desvían de los patrones sancionados, pues se rebaja el umbral de resistencia ante la novedad. En su forma más extrema, la pseudotraducción no es más que un acto de planificación cultural. El caso del 'poeta kazajo', y cantante folk Dzhambul Dzhahaycv ( 1846-1945) quien se hizo famoso por sus poemas que ensalzaban el régimen soviético, en ruso, una lengua que desconocía. Según las memorias del compositor Dmitri Shostakovitch se sabe que las 'traducciones' rusas de los poemas de Dzhamhul fueron escritas ‘por toda una brigada de poetastros rusos’ que no sabían kazajo. Del mismo modo, se han dado casos de uso de las traducciones ficticias para introducir en la Literatura Rusa de principios del siglo XIX la ‘novela gótica’, por medio de traducciones (ficticias) de 'novelas de Ann Radclille'. En el caso de la literatura hebrea no canónica, en la década de los sesenta (novelas del oeste, de espionaje, novelas rosas y pornográficas) se recurrió a las pseudotraducciones. Se han dado casos similares en las letras francesas, o en la literatura alemana (Papa Hamlet) o en la cultura norteamericana (El Libro del Mormón).Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Departamento de Cultura de la Diputación Foral de Álava. Departamento de Educación, Universidades e Investigación del Gobierno Vasco. Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana y Traducción e Interpretación
- …
