‘<i>Lösen Sie Schachtelsätze möglichst auf</i>’: The Impact of Editorial Guidelines on Sentence Splitting in German Business Article Translations

Bisiada, Mario

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“…At the same time, there is no significant increase in paratactic structures on the whole, as only paratactic conjunctions are increasing. The decrease in hypotaxis may be explained by the phenomenon of sentence splitting (see Bisiada 2014). When sentences with a concessive logical relation are split, a sentence-initial conjunction is the only feasible way to maintain the connection, and sentence-initial concessive conjunctions tend to be paratactic aber or doch.…”

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“…If the patterns are instead introduced only at the editing stage, that might be evidence to suggest that the phenomenon must, at least in part, be attributed to editors rather than translators (for an application of this method to sentence splitting, see Bisiada 2014). In that case, the driving forces of a particular phenomenon may not lie entirely within translation as multilingual discourse, but also be partly exerted by normative linguistic policies applied within a more monolingual framework.…”

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“…However, despite the absence of structurally marked subordination, English can often be shown to exhibit a more hierarchical and subordinated structure characteristic of a hypotactic style than German does (Fischer 2007: 397, Fischer 2013Bisiada 2014).…”

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Structural effects of English–German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

Bisiada

2016

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Studies on a variety of languages have observed a shift away from hypotactic, hierarchical structures towards paratactic, incremental structures, and have attributed this to language contact with English in translation. This paper investigates such a shift towards parataxis as the preferred structure of concessive constructions in German business articles. To this effect, a diachronic corpus method that has been applied to popular science articles in existing studies is adopted and applied to business articles, in an attempt to reproduce existing findings for this genre. This method is complemented by a corpus of manuscripts which allow to control for the effect of editing on the translated texts. Based on the analysis of hypotactic and paratactic translations of English concessive conjunctions between 1982/83 and 2008, I argue that hypotactic structures are indeed used less frequently in translated texts, but that this development is restricted to translated language. In non-translated texts, the use of hypotactic conjunctions has increased. The use of sentence-initial conjunctions, however, does seem to spread in this genre (as was reported for popular science), which may be further evidence for it to be a case of language change through contact in translation.

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Structural effects of English–German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

Bisiada

2016

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“…No obstante, erigir al traductor en centro único del modelo causal implica perder de vista, en cierta forma, que la autoría de una traducción no suele ser exclusiva de éste, pues en la concreción del texto traducido que llega a las manos del lector intervienen diversos agentes con funciones propias. Entre ellos destaca la figura del editor, como acertadamente señala Bisiada (2014):…”

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Traducción entregada frente a traducción publicada: reflexiones sobre la normalización en traducción editorial a partir de un estudio de caso

Moreno

2016

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Seront présentés, dans ce travail, les résultats préliminaires d’une étude de cas dans la pratique réelle de la traduction éditoriale. À partir de l’analyse contrastive d’un corpus formé par un texte original français, le manuscrit de sa traduction remis à une maison d’édition espagnole et le livre finalement publié, le travail montre comment certaines divergences considérées comme des universels de traduction, telles que l’explicitation ou la suppression des répétitions, ne sont pas toujours directement imputables au traducteur mais qu’elles sont le résultat d’une stratégie de normalisation de la part des responsables de l’édition visant à faciliter la lisibilité du texte final. L’objectif de l’étude est de proposer une réflexion générale sur l’importance de prendre en compte le rôle des correcteurs et des éditeurs dans les analyses traductologiques de type contrastif pour mieux cerner la spécificité des différents agents impliqués dans les phases de production d’un livre publié.This paper presents the preliminary results of a case study framed in the actual practice of translation for the publishing industry. Taking as a starting point the contrastive analysis of a corpus comprising a French original text, the draft of its translation submitted to a Spanish publishing house and the book which was finally published, the study shows how some shifts considered to be translation universals, such as explicitation or avoidance of repetitions, cannot always be directly attributed to translators but they are the result of an editing strategy aimed at normalizing the final text and improving its readability. The study puts forward a general reflection on why is important to take into account the role of correctors and editors in contrastive analyses of texts and their translations in order to better understand the specificity of the different agents involved in the many stages of publishing a book

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“…A number of works on discourse connectives, e.g. (Becher, 2011;Bisiada, 2014;Meyer and Webber, 2013) and (Li et al, 2014), show implicit/explicit discourse expression divergence in both human and machine translation. There are several studies that attempt to incorporate information on discourse relations or other discourse properties into MT, see for instance, those by Le Nagard and Koehn (2010), Hardmeier and Federico (2010) and Guillou (2012), or those presented within the first Dis-coMT workshop, see (Webber et al, 2013).…”

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Exploration of Inter- and Intralingual Variation of Discourse Phenomena

Lapshinova-Koltunski

2015

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation

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In this paper, we analyse cross-linguistic variation of discourse phenomena, i.e. coreference, discourse relations and modality. We will show that contrasts in the distribution of these phenomena can be observed across languages, genres, and text production types, i.e. translated and non-translated ones. Translations, regardless of the method they were produced with, are different from their source texts and from the comparable originals in the target language, as it was stated in studies on translationese. These differences can be automatically detected and analysed with exploratory and automatic clustering techniques. The extracted frequencybased profiles of variables under analysis (languages, genres, text production types) can be used in further studies, e.g. in the development and enhancement of MT systems, or in further NLP applications.

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‘Lösen Sie Schachtelsätze möglichst auf’: The Impact of Editorial Guidelines on Sentence Splitting in German Business Article Translations

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Structural effects of English–German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

Structural effects of English–German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

Traducción entregada frente a traducción publicada: reflexiones sobre la normalización en traducción editorial a partir de un estudio de caso

Exploration of Inter- and Intralingual Variation of Discourse Phenomena

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