Unique Items : Challenges and Prospects

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Unique Items : Challenges and Prospects

ŠPETLA, David

Základní údaje

Originální název

Unique Items : Challenges and Prospects

Autoři

ŠPETLA, David

Vydání

6th IDEAS English Students' Conference, 10 May 2019, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60201 General language studies

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

translation studies; features of translated language; linguistic interference; unique items; diminutives; semantic maps; cognitive grammar

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 3. 4. 2021 09:17, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The search for features that set translated texts apart from texts originally produced in the target language has been in the spotlight of Translation Studies for more than two decades. Although this endeavor may have shed some light on the nature of translated language, it has turned out to be very problematic – both theoretically and methodologically. Many hypotheses have been formulated within this research area, Sonja Tirkonnen-Condit’s unique items hypothesis being one of the more recent ones. Take diminutives, for instance. English has a very limited repertoire of diminutive expressions, whereas Czech is quite keen on diminutives. According to the unique items hypothesis, there will be much fewer diminutive expressions in texts translated into Czech from English than in original Czech texts. Data from the Jerome corpus corroborate this particular claim. Grave issues arise, however, as soon as one tries to define the notion of a unique item – especially issues related to cross-linguistic comparability. The use of the term diminutive, for example, obscures the fact that what we call diminutives in English may not be the same thing as diminutives in Czech, and if one moves to less studied phenomena and/or languages, cross-linguistic comparability becomes a major problem. Nevertheless, it would be a pity to give up on such a promising hypothesis, which is interesting, for instance, from a cognitive standpoint. According to Sandra L. Halverson’s model, the underrepresentation of unique items in translated texts is due to the absence of cognitive links between a target-language unique item and items in the source language. Therefore, it is time to develop a new, sounder approach to unique items.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1396/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments (Akronym: RCE)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

ŠPETLA, David. Unique Items : Challenges and Prospects. In 6th IDEAS English Students' Conference, 10 May 2019, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 2019.

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