Explicitness in translation and interpreting: A critical review and some empirical evidence (of an elusive concept)

Baumgarten, Nicole; Meyer, Bernd; Özçetin, Demet

doi:10.1556/acr.9.2008.2.2

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“…There are also studies that provide direct evidence against the Explicitation Hypothesis (e.g. Baumgarten et al 2008, Puurtinen 2004, Musacchio and Palumbo 2010, the discussion of which unfortunately lies outside the scope of the present paper.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Abandoning the notion of “translation-inherent” explicitation: Against a dogma of translation studies

Becher

2010

Across Languages and Cultures

168

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One of the best-known hypotheses of translation studies, the Explicitation Hypothesis, postulates that explicitation is "inherent" in the process of translation and may therefore be regarded as a "universal of translation". In recent years, a number of corpusbased studies on explicitation have been produced, most of which purport to offer evidence in favor of this hypothesis. As a consequence, the alleged universality of explicitation has achieved the status of dogma in translation studies. The aim of the present article is to show that the dogma of translation-inherent explicitation rests on fallacious theoretical considerations and premature interpretations of empirical data. In the first place, it will be argued that the Explicitation Hypothesis strictly speaking does not even qualify as a scientific hypothesis, since it is unmotivated, unparsimonious and vaguely formulated. In the second place, it will be shown that previous studies on explicitation fail to provide conclusive evidence for the translation-inherent nature of explicitation due to a number of methodological shortcomings.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Abandoning the notion of “translation-inherent” explicitation: Against a dogma of translation studies

Becher

2010

Across Languages and Cultures

168

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“…The conceptual basis for the present analysis stems from the corpus linguistic line of research into deixis from the systemic-contrastive and textual pragmatic perspective [7,8,22,23,46,47]. To discuss the results within the broader textual pragmatic explicitness/implicitness hypothesis, the study is based on a data triangulation scheme (a tripartite corpus structure) consisting of source texts in language A, target texts in language B, and original texts in language B [6,9,42]. As noted by Baumgarten et al [6, p. 188), a tripartite corpus structure enables a thorough contrastive systemic and stylistic analysis and a comparison of the communicative purposes of texts.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Lithuanian demonstrative tas occurs in similar contexts as the recognitional demonstratives in English. It occurs in constructions with the post-modifying relative clause that functions as a formal device for reference confirmation in the recognitional usage, as in (6). ( 6) "That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome" <...> -Tas akmenėlis, kuris tau taip rūpi, galbūt regėjo, kaip Alarikas nusiaubė Romą, <...>…”

Section: Recognitional Referencementioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Deictics and Translational Implicitation: Evidence from a Corpus-based Analysis of English and Lithuanian Fictional Discourse

Bartkutė¹

2020

IJLL

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Based on the typology of universal uses of demonstratives and presumption of translational explicitation, this paper compares and contrasts demonstratives from a semantic and pragmatic perspective. It aims to identify the translation correspondences of the English demonstratives in Lithuanian and contrast their usage in a comparable corpus to determine the cross-linguistic differences resulting from unequal distribution of lexical correspondences in both languages. This paper analyses a self-compiled parallel corpus and comparable corpus extracted from the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language to examine the translation effects at the discourse pragmatic level in the rendition of spatial deixis. The translation correspondences highlight the key role of optional implicitation caused by the availability of contextual variants in the textual uses of demonstratives in Lithuanian. The translation results also reveal that the Lithuanian three-way system of demonstratives shows signs of reduction to a two-way system, as there is an analogous distribution between the English distal demonstrative and the neutral (medial) demonstrative in Lithuanian. A comparison of original texts points to important crosslinguistic differences determined by discourse-related factors, such as higher frequencies of demonstratives in the anaphoric and recognitional functions in Lithuanian texts, which is largely determined by the unmarked status of the neutral (medial) demonstrative. While its article-like status is gaining increasing attention in the literature, the present results indicate that the (neutral) medial demonstrative is an optional indicator of identification that occurs as a stylistic and text-building preference and contributes to greater textual pragmatic explicitness of Lithuanian fiction texts.

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“…Kai kurie tyrėjai kalba apie tai, kad eksplikavimas yra reiškinys, būtinas siekiant įveikti kalbinius, kultūrinius ar kitokius originalo ir vertimo kalbų skirtumus (Pöchhacker 2004;Baumgarten, Meyer, Özçetin 2008). Vis dėlto teiginys, jog eksplikavimas yra universali ir prigimtinė vertimo savybė, abstraktus ir ginčytinas, juo labiau kad sąvoka "universalumas" -per daug radikali, neapimanti jokių išimčių, su kuriomis neretai susiduriama verčiant.…”

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Probleminiai Eksplikavimo Vertime Aspektai

Darbutaitė¹

2017

VertStud

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Straipsnio tikslas – aptarti pagrindinius eksplikavimo reiškinio aspektus, kuriuos vertimo tyrėjai vertina nevienareikšmiškai: apibrėžties problematiką, eksplikavimo klasifikaciją, eksplikavimo vertime žodžiu ir raštu skirtumus ir galimas eksplikavimo priežastis. Atkreipiamas dėmesys į konteksto svarbą sinchroniniame vertime ir aptariami komunikacinės rizikos vengimo, kaip pagrindinės eksplikavimo priežasties, trūkumai. Straipsnyje eksplikavimo sinchroniniame vertime ypatumai apžvelgiami pasitelkiant vertimo iš vokiečių kalbos į lietuvių kalbą pavyzdžius iš Europos Parlamento plenarinių sesijų.

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Explicitness in translation and interpreting: A critical review and some empirical evidence (of an elusive concept)

Cited by 61 publications

References 27 publications

Abandoning the notion of “translation-inherent” explicitation: Against a dogma of translation studies

Abandoning the notion of “translation-inherent” explicitation: Against a dogma of translation studies

Spatial Deictics and Translational Implicitation: Evidence from a Corpus-based Analysis of English and Lithuanian Fictional Discourse

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