Determining translation invariant characteristics of James Joyce’s Dubliners

Patton, Jon; Can, Fazlı

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“…The conflation of CTS and disciplines such as corpus stylistics has made possible the analysis of literary translations using corpus methods. For example, the translated works of Miguel de Cervantes (Ji 2012), James Joyce (Patton and Can 2012) or Tennessee Williams (Ruano San Segundo 2014) into Chinese, Turkish and Spanish respectively have been scrutinized from such a perspective. These analyses, though, are still small in number.…”

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Corpus Methodologies in Literary Translation Studies: An Analysis of Speech Verbs in Four Spanish Translations of Hard Times

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2017

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Dans cet article, nous analysons les verbes de communication et leur traduction en espagnol dans Hard Times de Dickens (1854). Outre leur fonction primaire d’introduire le dialogue, ces verbes peuvent contribuer à le caractériser. L’occurrence régulière d’un verbe de communication spécifique pour rapporter le discours direct d’un personnage fictif donné participe de la création de sa personnalité. Étant donné l’importance de leur rôle, nous avons analysé le rendu de ces verbes dans quatre versions espagnoles du roman. Nous avons pour ce faire adopté une méthodologie de corpus et nous avons utilisé un concordancier pour extraire les verbes de communication de la version originale du roman, ce qui nous a permis de procéder à une analyse approfondie, en contexte. Nous avons alors utilisé un corpus parallèle aligné comprenant les quatre versions traduites, que nous avons comparées entre elles afin d’examiner comment les verbes de communication avaient été rendus. Notre analyse a démontré qu’aucune des quatre traductions n’a totalement préservé leur valeur de caractérisation, ce qui peut affecter la perception des personnages par les lecteurs. L’utilisation de cette méthodologie de corpus contribue donc bien au domaine de la traduction littéraire.In this article, speech verbs in Dickens’s Hard Times (1854) and their translation into Spanish are analyzed. Apart from their basic function of introducing speech, these verbs can also contribute to characterization. The regular occurrence of a particular speech verb to report the direct speech of a particular character helps to create a fictional personality. Given the important role they may play, the rendering of such verbs in four Spanish versions of this novel is assessed. To do so, a corpus-based methodology has been employed. A concordancing software was used to retrieve speech verbs from the original novel, allowing their close analysis in context. Then, using an aligned parallel corpus containing the four versions, a comparison was carried out to see how they have been rendered. Evidence is provided that none of the four translations entirely preserves the characterizing value of the verbs, which may affect the way readers form impressions of characters in their minds. The use of this corpus metholodogy is thus seen to contribute to the field of literary translation studies.En este artículo se analizan los verbos de habla de la novela Hard Times (1854), de Dickens, y su traducción al español. Además de introducir discurso, estos verbos también pueden desempeñar un papel importante en términos estilísticos. El uso repetido de un verbo de habla para perfilar el estilo directo de un personaje concreto, por ejemplo, puede ayudar a caracterizarlo a través de su modo de hablar. En este artículo se analiza el traslado al español de estos verbos en cuatro traducciones diferentes. Para ello, se ha empleado una metodología de corpus. De forma más precisa, se ha recurrido a un software de concordancias para extraer los verbos de habla de la versión original de la novela. Tambi...

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“…The first one is "Determining Translation Invariant Characteristics of James Joyce's Dubliners" by Jon M. Patton and Fazlı Can (2012). The researchers perform a comparative stylometric analysis using five style markers: (i) sentence length in terms of the number of words, (ii) the most frequent words, (iii) word length in text, (iv) word length in vocabulary, and (v) vocabulary richness.…”

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A Text Mining Approach to ‘Operational Norms’

Bozan¹

2021

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The notion of 'translation norms' was introduced by Gideon Toury in the late 1970s within Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). Toury's endeavor was to describe and explain translations to make generalizations regarding translational behavior. Due to the exhaustive nature of such attempt, analysis of everything is deemed 'untenable' by Toury, and even sampling is limited to the capacity of human effort. This paper 1 argues that exhaustive analysis on 'operational norms' can be facilitated through text mining. Text mining is a term that can be described as automated analysis of text data aided by a software to extract and discover new insights. As part of this study, a custom-made software tool is designed, and the corpus of a master's thesis (Duymaz 2020) is used as a reference point to analyze and compare the findings with a view to testing the effectiveness of the software versus human effort. The tool is designed by a software expert, and then the test data is subjected to a preparation stage to achieve optimal results by the software. After processing the test data, operational norms are extracted to be interpreted. The analysis has provided results that cannot be obtained by sole human effort, enabling researchers to have further insights about translations. This research thus has a potential for making a notable contribution to DTS. Further studies will improve the tool verifying its viability for various text types to ensure such contribution.

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“…According to Yıldırım and Şimşek (2000), qualitative research is a research method aiming to discover individuals' views of a phenomenon and to uncover the processes belonging to this view. In qualitative research, the main purpose is not to reach generalizable results but rather to present a descriptive and realistic picture of the issue under investigation (Patton, 2014;Creswell, 2013). In qualitative research, for the reliability and validity of the research findings, presentation of the data in a detailed and direct manner is of great importance.…”

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Science Student Teachers’ Cognitive Structure on the Concept of “Food Pyramid”

Çınar

2016

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The current study aims to determine science student teachers' cognitive structure on the concept of food pyramid. Qualitative research method was applied in this study. Fallacies detected in the pre-service teachers' conceptual structures are believed to result in students' developing misconceptions in their future classes and will adversely affect their future teaching performance. The data were collected from 48 science student teachers. A free word association test was used as a data collection instrument. The data collected were subject to content analysis. Analyzing the science student teachers' responses to the concept of food pyramid on the free word association test, these responses were coded and divided into categories. Based on the categories, frequency and percentages were provided. The data collected through the study were divided into 7 categories, which were stated as follows: -relationship between producer, consumer and decomposer in matter and energy flow-concepts related to nourishment pyramid-definition of food pyramid-energy and matter transfer-producer, consumer and decomposer-elements of ecosystem and ecological factors-scientific disciplines related to food pyramid. When the words provided as answers by the science student teachers to the concept of food pyramid were analyzed, it was noticed that they had more word connections with relationship between producer, consumer and decomposer in matter and energy flow. It can be argued that some students could not produce any sentences and some others could not make meaningful sentences. Moreover, it was determined that they had some misconceptions about food pyramid. Similar research can be conducted with different student groups and for the correction of alternative concepts related to the concept of food pyramid, extra biology courses should be included in undergraduate curriculums.

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Determining translation invariant characteristics of James Joyce’s Dubliners

Cited by 6 publications

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Corpus Methodologies in Literary Translation Studies: An Analysis of Speech Verbs in Four Spanish Translations of Hard Times

Corpus Methodologies in Literary Translation Studies: An Analysis of Speech Verbs in Four Spanish Translations of Hard Times

A Text Mining Approach to ‘Operational Norms’

Science Student Teachers’ Cognitive Structure on the Concept of “Food Pyramid”

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