Repeated reporting verbs in English novels and their Italian and Polish translations: A preliminary multifactorial study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=UgSl_Lz4BJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=UgSl_Lz4BJ</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/084.2024.00911" target="_blank" >10.1556/084.2024.00911</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Repeated reporting verbs in English novels and their Italian and Polish translations: A preliminary multifactorial study

Original language description

In this explanatory study, we aim to determine the predictors of repetition avoidance or reproduction in the translation of reporting verbs from English into Italian and Polish, using a sample of 11 novels. We fit multiple negative binomial regression models with fixed effects to assess the impact of five predictor variables (i.e. frequency of a source-text verb, number of its translation equivalents in lexical databases, its number of senses, semantic-pragmatic category of verb, and length in characters) on the response variable, i.e., the number of different target language verb types into which a source text reporting verb is translated. The overall model fit per the lowest Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) value obtained through backward elimination reveals that verb category, frequency of a source-text reporting verb, and number of translation equivalents make the largest individual contributions to explaining the proportion of variation in the response variable in the Italian data; for the Polish translations the corresponding variables are verb category, frequency, the number of senses, and the interaction between the number of translation equivalents and the number of senses. The summaries of the final models provide a detailed multifactorial picture of when repetition of reporting verbs is maintained or avoided in literary translation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Across Languages and Cultures

ISSN

1585-1923

e-ISSN

1588-2519

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

310-330

UT code for WoS article

001374692200007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85209897135