‘Putting a sock on it’: a contrastive analysis of problem-solving translation strategies between African and European languages

Wallmach, Kim; Kruger, Alet

doi:10.1080/02572117.1999.10587406

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“…• neologisms, indigenised loan words (Wallmach & Kruger 1999), loans, loan-translations, and word creation (Baker 1992;Delabastita 1993:34); • "strategy of least commitment" , e.g. avoiding concluding sentences and instead transforming subsequent source text sentences into subordinate clauses); entence restructuring strategies, such as chunking long sentences containing embedded clauses into shorter target-text sentences (Riccardi in Niske 1998:9).…”

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“…the insertion of information in the target text that is absent in the source text can partly be ascribed to translators' or interpreters' "understandable concern for clarity and coherence, which prompts them to disentangle complicated passages, provide missing links, lay bare unspoken assumptions, and generally give the text a fuller wording" (Delabastita 1993:36); • the use of an existing term to denote an 'approximate' or 'provisional' equivalent; • paraphrase or explanation of concept using a related/unrelated term (Baker 1992:37-40;Wallmach & Kruger 1999). The main advantage of paraphrase as a strategy is that is allows for the achievement of "high level of precision in specifying propositional meaning" (Baker 1992:40).…”

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Examining simultaneous interpreting norms and strategies in a South African legislative context: a pilot corpus analysis

Wallmach

2000

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Examining simultaneous interpreting norms and strategies in a South African legislative context: a pilot corpus analysis

Wallmach

2000

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“…This is a strategy under borrowing, and it involves modifying a word slightly to remove some of the 'foreignness' of the word and spelling it according to the orthography of the target language (Wallmach & Kruger 1999). The loanword changes in terms of structure, spelling and pronunciation to suit the target language, but the meaning and sound remain the same, to maintain the meaning of words while making the message accessible to the target language reader.…”

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Lexical Creativity in Community Translation Corpus from Ghana

Asare-Nyarko

2023

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Although corpus-based research is becoming more common in many languages and in translation studies in general, it tends to be scarce or even nonexistent in Akan and many other African languages that are often considered as minority languages. In fact, failure to use Akan in various fields has hindered its development to some extent, particularly in online electronic resources, human language technology and for optimising online presence. Thelimited availability of resources, such as reference corpora and specialised dictionaries, suggests that translators who work from and into Akan often have to rely solely on their ingenuity in the process of translation. The study, therefore, explored a bidirectional English–Akan parallel corpus, built earlier by the researcher in another study. Using the descriptive translation studies approach, Skopos theory and Baker’s (1992) translation strategies, the paperanalyses lexical creativity as a strategy used to resolve translation problems specific to the language pair: borrowing, compounding and reduplication. Akan may not be a typical minority language, but it is in a disadvantaged position compared to English, which serves as the official language. Consequently, many documents are primarily written in the official language, thereby creating a form of imbalance in terms of language development and translationchallenges for community translators and interpreters who work from and into Akan. The research sheds light on how the abovementioned corpus can empower community translation in Ghana. It also identifies lexical creativity as an effective strategy to stimulate the need for the development of such a community language and to curb the imbalance in relation to English regarding terminology, text-type development, reference resources and translation tools. As translation tools such as Linguee rely on parallel corpora, the bidirectional English–Akan parallel corpus may be uploaded online or enlarged to develop general and professional language tools, and can serve as a basis for other enquiries.

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“…Research that has employed the functional approach in interpreting findings obtained is very limited. One study was conducted by Wallmach and Kruger [19] in which they explored translation strategies used by students when translating text in an examination situation. The source text was in English, and students had to translate it into their home/first languages.…”

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The Evolution of Translation Theory: From Prescriptive to Descriptive Approaches

Nkululeko Nzimande

2023

Translatology, Translation and Interpretation - Toward a New Scientific Endeavor

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Translation theory has undergone several paradigm shifts, from the inception of translation studies as an empirical discipline (Holmes 2000). The many paradigm shifts that have taken place can be ascribed to the infiltration of the discipline by other disciplines, such as literary studies, post-colonial studies, cultural studies, etc. The aim of this chapter is to provide a description of the major developments that have taken place in translation theory, from the prescriptive approaches of the 1960s to the more descriptive paradigms of the 2000s. The chapter commences with the word-for-word and sense-for-sense approaches of the 1950s and 1960s. It then proceeds to the discussion of the equivalence-based approach of the 1960s, the functional approach which dawned in the 1970s and the polysystem theory which also emerged in the 1970s. This is followed by an account of the descriptive translation studies (DTS) model, which emerged in the 1980s, and then the cultural turn of the 1990s, which encapsulates several approaches, including patronage and translation, gender and translation and post-colonial translation theory. The chapter then concludes with the description of the corpus-based translation studies (CTS) approach, which dawned in the late 1990s.

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‘Putting a sock on it’: a contrastive analysis of problem-solving translation strategies between African and European languages

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Examining simultaneous interpreting norms and strategies in a South African legislative context: a pilot corpus analysis

Examining simultaneous interpreting norms and strategies in a South African legislative context: a pilot corpus analysis

Lexical Creativity in Community Translation Corpus from Ghana

The Evolution of Translation Theory: From Prescriptive to Descriptive Approaches

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