Linguistic variation through language contact in translation

Baumgarten, Nicole; Özçetin, Demet

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“…A number of scholars have taken interest in investigating translation as a form of language contact and its effects on the target language, mainly within the EnglishGerman context (Steiner 2008;House 2004;Baumgarten and Özçetin 2008), although French and Spanish (House 2008) and Persian (Amouzadeh and House 2010) have also been investigated. However, apart from the studies conducted by German scholars, translation scholarship so far seems to have neglected the impact that translational behaviour can have on the target linguistic system, while language change specialists have failed to explore in depth the phenomenon of translation as a form of language contact.…”

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Passive Voice and the Language of Translation: A Comparable Corpus-Based Study of Modern Greek Popular Science Articles

Malamatidou

2014

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Little research has been conducted so far into the translation-specific features that are dependent on both the source and the target language. This study aims at examining whether Modern Greek translated popular science articles differ from non-translated ones by being closer to the source language, which is English, in terms of the frequency and the word order of the passive voice constructions. This is one of the few Modern Greek studies that use a comparable corpus in order to better understand the nature of the translation practice. The corpus analysed consists of Modern Greek popular science articles and is divided into two subcorpora: the translated language corpus and the non-translated language corpus. The study indicates that there is substantial evidence that Modern Greek articles employ some translation-specific features which are dependent on the source language, at least in terms of some passive voice features. More importantly, it suggests that the non-translated texts tend to be similar to the translated ones, which are in turn closer to the English source texts. Even though it is early to conclude that translation encourages the different usage of particular linguistic features in non-translated texts, the data provide indirect evidence that translation is a potential field of language contact with important consequences.

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Passive Voice and the Language of Translation: A Comparable Corpus-Based Study of Modern Greek Popular Science Articles

Malamatidou

2014

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“…The literature relevant to this study is somewhat limited in scope. Among those linguists who have studied grammaticalization in translation are Becher et al, 2009;Baumgarten & Özç etin, 2008;Steiner, 2008;andMcLaughlin, 2011. Becher et al (2009: 125) address the question of whether and how translation as a case of language contact can give rise to convergence and divergence between two languages.…”

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The Grammatical Influence of English on Arabic in the Passive Voice in Translation

Al-Raba’a¹

2013

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This short paper addresses the idea that translation as a case of language contact can prompt convergence between Arabic and English. I hypothesize that using the by-phrase along with the agent in the Arabic passive structure has been modeled, via a grammaticalization process, on its English counterpart in translation. This process has led to pattern replication, i.e. borrowing the abstract features of the source language (English). The findings reveal that not only foreign language learners initiate a language change alongside bilinguals, but also that the former are much more involved in this process than the latter.

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“…Un aspecto singular de este tipo de contacto es en la incorporación de elementos que tiene lugar cuando una de las lenguas ha desarrollado con anticipación modelos de mayor peso cultural (Baumgarten y Özçetin, 2008). Es lo que sucede en el influjo sobre el aragonés medieval de las lenguas vecinas, catalán, occitano, francés, que habían creado patrones de lengua escrita de gran relieve, a partir de los cuales se producen transferencias en traducciones y adaptaciones de textos.…”

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El participio de presente en aragonés medieval

Alonso¹

2019

Voces Dialogantes. Estudios en Homenaje Al Professor Wiaczesław Nowikow

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Linguistic variation through language contact in translation

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Passive Voice and the Language of Translation: A Comparable Corpus-Based Study of Modern Greek Popular Science Articles

Passive Voice and the Language of Translation: A Comparable Corpus-Based Study of Modern Greek Popular Science Articles

The Grammatical Influence of English on Arabic in the Passive Voice in Translation

El participio de presente en aragonés medieval

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