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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

"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."

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

"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."

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

"Target. International Journal of Translation Studies"

ISSN

0924-1884

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

33

Strana od-do

540-572

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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