Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F23%3APWBRYZT4" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/23:PWBRYZT4 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/target.21147.kol" target="_blank" >https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/target.21147.kol</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.21147.kol" target="_blank" >10.1075/target.21147.kol</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations

Original language description

"Abstract Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose a great challenge for translators. Given recent advances in machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the translation of occasionalisms? We address this question by considering the work of Austria’s most important nineteenth-century comedy writer, Johann Nestroy (1801–1862). We compare how human translators and two generic neural MT systems (Google Translate, DeepL) translated occasionalisms (compounds, derivations, and blends) in Nestroy’s play Der Talisman into English. While human translators largely refrained from creating new target expressions, the two MT systems generated a number of viable new coinages, most of them by literal translation procedures. In an interactive human-computer environment, using MT output as a repository from which to retrieve novel target solutions or derive inspiration might open up new avenues in the practice of literary translation."

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

"Target. International Journal of Translation Studies"

ISSN

0924-1884

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Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

33

Pages from-to

540-572

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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