Poetische Okkasionalismen bei Nestroy und Handke: ein literarisch-linguistischer und korpuslinguistischer Kontrast

Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Hannesschläger, Vanessa; Tumfart, Barbara

doi:10.1553/poetische_okkasionalismen

Corpus Linguistics and Literature 2018

DOI: 10.1553/poetische_okkasionalismen

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Poetische Okkasionalismen bei Nestroy und Handke: ein literarisch-linguistischer und korpuslinguistischer Kontrast

Wolfgang U. Dressler¹,

Vanessa Hannesschläger²,

Barbara Tumfart³

Abstract: In diesem Beitrag wollen wir sprachliche Neubildungen (präziser: Okkasionalismen) als Elemente poetischer Kreativität bei Johann Nepomuk Nestroy und Peter Handke mit korpuslinguistischen Methoden in neuer Weise untersuchen und vergleichen, zeigen, was mit diesen zum ersten Mal möglich ist und damit auch der Literatur-und Theaterwissenschaft neue Möglichkeiten eröffnen.

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Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts

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Literary occasionalisms, new words coined by writers with a particular poetic aim in view, often pose a great challenge for translators. Given recent advances in machine translation (MT), could literary translators benefit from MT when it comes to the translation of occasionalisms? We address this question by considering the work of Austria’s most important nineteenth-century comedy writer, Johann Nestroy (1801–1862). We compare how human translators and two generic neural MT systems (Google Translate, DeepL) translated occasionalisms (compounds, derivations, and blends) in Nestroy’s play Der Talisman into English. While human translators largely refrained from creating new target expressions, the two MT systems generated a number of viable new coinages, most of them by literal translation procedures. In an interactive human-computer environment, using MT output as a repository from which to retrieve novel target solutions or derive inspiration might open up new avenues in the practice of literary translation.

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Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts

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Poetic and theatrical occasionalisms: Creation of new morphologically complex words by Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Peter Handke and Arno Schmidt

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This contribution characterises and differentiates the poetic occasionalisms in the form of new morphologically complex words created by the early romantic German lyrical poet Joseph von Eichendorff, by the Austrian Nobel Prize winner for literature Peter Handke and by the extravagant German prosaic author Arno Schmidt and the occasionalisms created by the most famous Austrian comedy writer Johann Nepomuk Nestroy.The concept and term occasionalism has been founded by the Russian pioneer of stylistics Erik J. Chanpira (1996, see § 2) and defined as a newly created morphologically complex poetic word destined to be used with a literary function only once for a single passage and which is not taken over by anybody else. This definition holds for the authors investigated, except Eichendorff who reuses occasionalisms, which may be also reused by other lyrical poets of the same period or even later.The main part (§ 3) consists of the discussion of 17 criteria for characterising and differentiating the occasionalisms studied. These are productivity of word formation, literary functions, main content, single use vs. reuse of them, consequences of the noun bias of German and of the preference for binary relations, size of the word families of compound constituents (especially of the first constituent), the degree of poetic licence, semantically coherent vs. incoherent combination of words within a compound, embedding into the cotext and into the situational context, gapping constructions and their make-up, preference for compounding vs. derivational morphology.The conclusion and outlook (§ 4) present proposals how literary studies may profit from investigations of poetic and theatrical occasionalisms, which represent the highest degree of language creativity of literary authors. We urge that theatre productions should highlight occasionalisms and report that Nestroy’s German occasionalisms are generally better translated into English by programs of machine translation then by human translators.

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Poetische Okkasionalismen bei Nestroy und Handke: ein literarisch-linguistischer und korpuslinguistischer Kontrast

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Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts

Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts

Poetic and theatrical occasionalisms: Creation of new morphologically complex words by Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Peter Handke and Arno Schmidt

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