Directionality in Translation: Qualitative Aspects of Translation from and into English as a Non-Mother Tongue

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.30827/sendebar.v29i0.6744" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.30827/sendebar.v29i0.6744</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30827/sendebar.v29i0.6744" target="_blank" >10.30827/sendebar.v29i0.6744</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Directionality in Translation: Qualitative Aspects of Translation from and into English as a Non-Mother Tongue

Original language description

This article presents the results of a translation experiment investigating directionality in translation between Czech and English. A set of 80 translations (of two text types - promotional and legal -, produced by two groups of translators - translation students in the second year of their MA studies and professionals with at least 7 years of practical experience -, in two directions) was analysed to explore various aspects related to the quality of translations from and into the translators&apos; mother tongue. The overall quality of translations into Czech, i.e. the translators&apos; mother tongue, was generally better than the quality of translations done in the opposite direction. Legal texts turn out to be more compatible with non-native translation than promotional texts. A positive influence of the translators&apos; previous experience was only observed in translations into Czech. Data on error types confirm the assumption that translation from a non- mother tongue involves more comprehension problems; stylistic errors were the most frequent type in all four sets of translations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-03037S" target="_blank" >GA16-03037S: Directionality in translation: qualitative and sociological aspects</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sendebar : Revista de la faculdad de traducción e interpretación

ISSN

1130-5509

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

29

Country of publishing house

ES - SPAIN

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

35-57

UT code for WoS article

000456449500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057505260