Fictional orality in romance novels: between linguistic reality and editorial requirements

Sinner, Carsten

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“…Munday (2013) proposes the use of manuscripts to investigate decision-making in translation, arguing that "unpublished primary sources preceding and building to the [target text] itself" are a "valuable window into the working practice of a translator" (Munday 2013:126). Sinner (2012) studies fictive dialogue in a corpus of 26 romance novels published between 2003 and 2009. The corpus consists of English source texts, their German manuscript translations as well as the published translations (Sinner 2012:136).…”

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Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Bisiada

2019

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Can translated language really be analysed based on published texts, given the many agents that may influence the translator's work before publication? This article seeks to address this question through a parallel corpus study of English business articles, their German translation manuscripts and the published German translations. The objects of study are passive voice constructions. I analyse the frequency of instances where translators used the active voice to translate verbs that are in passive voice in the source text (and vice versa), and whether editors maintained that construction or intervened to change it again. The study finds that translators use the passive voice extensively to translate active voice constructions. Editors intervene often to change such constructions back to active voice. This suggests that translators mainly passivise while editors mainly activise constructions. As a possible motivation to passivise a construction or not, the tense used in the source text is shown to have a significant effect. The paper thus argues that there is a difference between what is actually the language of translation and what we find in published texts.

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Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Bisiada

2019

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Under the Publisher’s Undifferentiated Patronage: A Corpus-Based Case Study of Chinese Editorial Censorship on Translation about EU-Russia Relationship

Jianwei

2024

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Translation and editing: a study of editorial treatment of nominalisations in draft translations

Bisiada

2017

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Though editing and revising are integral parts of translation, their effects on the language of the final translated text has scarcely been studied. Phenomena we observe in translated text are usually attributed to 'the translator', even though the multitude of agents involved in translation may also be responsible for them to various degrees. This paper promotes the use of manuscripts in corpus-based translation studies by investigating differences in nominalisation between unedited and edited translations. Using a corpus of manuscript and published German translations of English business articles, I investigate what may motivate editors to replace a nominalisation in the translation manuscript by a verb to match the English source text. For this purpose, I analyse differences in the process types of the nominalised source text verbs and the structure and information density of the nominal group the nominalisation appears in. The findings show that editors take extensive and systematic influence on the translated text. Crucially, the analysis shows that studies that only consider the published version of a translation often mistake for a literal translation a sentence that has undergone a considerable amount of shifts while passing through the stages of translation.

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Fictional orality in romance novels: between linguistic reality and editorial requirements

Cited by 3 publications

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Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Under the Publisher’s Undifferentiated Patronage: A Corpus-Based Case Study of Chinese Editorial Censorship on Translation about EU-Russia Relationship

Translation and editing: a study of editorial treatment of nominalisations in draft translations

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