Salience effects on translation choices : The case of jako

ŠPETLA, David. Salience effects on translation choices : The case of jako. In Doctoral Symposium "Current Trends in Linguistics", 19 November, 2021, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 2021. 2021.

Basic information

• Original name: Salience effects on translation choices : The case of jako
• Authors: ŠPETLA, David.
• Edition: Doctoral Symposium "Current Trends in Linguistics", 19 November, 2021, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 2021, 2021.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: gravitational pull hypothesis; translation choice; salience; equative marker
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

Combining corpus-based translation studies with cognitive linguistics this study is concerned with the factors directing translators’ selection of translation equivalents. It draws on Sandra L. Halver-son’s gravitational pull model in which she assumes that the more salient linguistic item either in the source or the target language, the higher the likeliness of its being chosen by translators. I have picked the Czech item jako, which among various other functions serves as an equative and similative standard marker. In this talk I present the preliminary results of mapping the relative salience – operationalized here in terms of relative frequencies in reference corpora – of the senses of jako and of the corresponding expressions in English. The study is part of a bigger project whose aim is to see if Halverson’s results can be reproduced on the English–Czech language pair and, hopefully, to refine the existing theory.

Links

• MUNI/A/1416/2020, interní kód MU: Name: The gravitational pull hypothesis and the English–Czech language pair

Investor: Masaryk University