Differences in the lexical variation of reporting verbs in French, English and Czech fiction and their impact on translation

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10406539" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10406539 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=c7UBnoTzuY" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=c7UBnoTzuY</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.00016.nad" target="_blank" >10.1075/lic.00016.nad</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Differences in the lexical variation of reporting verbs in French, English and Czech fiction and their impact on translation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The aims of this paper are to compare the degree of lexical variation (TTR - type/token ratio and hapax/token ratio) of reporting verbs in reporting clauses placed medially or in postposition in English, French and Czech fiction and to evaluate their consequences in translation, especially with regard to explicitation/implicitation. We expect that in translations from a language with a low degree of lexical variation of reporting verbs into a language with a high degree of lexical variation, the frequency and the degree of explicitation will be higher than in translations involving languages less different with respect to lexical variation. The analysis, relying on data extracted from the InterCorp multilingual corpus, proposes a classification of reporting verbs based on the type and the amount of information they convey, which allows us to evaluate the degree of explicitation operated in translations. The results show that most shifts involve only the neutral reporting verb say/dire, replaced either by a stylistically more specific synonym, or by a verb explicitating information which is obvious from the context. This suggests that modifications of reporting verbs in translation are motivated primarily by the respect to the stylistic norm of the target language, defining the acceptability of repetition of the neutral reporting verb.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Differences in the lexical variation of reporting verbs in French, English and Czech fiction and their impact on translation

Popis výsledku anglicky

The aims of this paper are to compare the degree of lexical variation (TTR - type/token ratio and hapax/token ratio) of reporting verbs in reporting clauses placed medially or in postposition in English, French and Czech fiction and to evaluate their consequences in translation, especially with regard to explicitation/implicitation. We expect that in translations from a language with a low degree of lexical variation of reporting verbs into a language with a high degree of lexical variation, the frequency and the degree of explicitation will be higher than in translations involving languages less different with respect to lexical variation. The analysis, relying on data extracted from the InterCorp multilingual corpus, proposes a classification of reporting verbs based on the type and the amount of information they convey, which allows us to evaluate the degree of explicitation operated in translations. The results show that most shifts involve only the neutral reporting verb say/dire, replaced either by a stylistically more specific synonym, or by a verb explicitating information which is obvious from the context. This suggests that modifications of reporting verbs in translation are motivated primarily by the respect to the stylistic norm of the target language, defining the acceptability of repetition of the neutral reporting verb.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Kreativita a adaptabilita jako předpoklad úspěchu Evropy v propojeném světě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Languages in Contrast

ISSN

1387-6759

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

209-234

Kód UT WoS článku

000580479300003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85092591843