Translation Techniques Revisited: A Dynamic and Functionalist Approach

Molina, Lucía; Albir, Amparo Hurtado

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“…A set of sixty-nine implicatures were identified altogether. As the next step, the translation procedures utilized by the Persian and the Turkish translators were discussed based on the classification listed by Molina and Hurtado Albir (2002), and Newmark (1988). The results using descriptive statistics were demonstrated in the tables below.…”

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“…The present research is done based on above-mentioned theoretical framework. As discussed earlier, the implicatures of four short stories by Hemingway were extracted and analyzed along with their Persian and Turkish translations based on translation procedures suggested by Molina and Hurtado Albir (2002), and Newmark (1988). The selected translation procedures include Literal Translation, Free Translation, Linguistic Amplification, Linguistic Compression, Established Equivalence, and Transposition.…”

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“…Be orderly". (Grice, 1975, p.45) For the purposes of our study, we have decided to base the translation technique categorizations largely on a more recent study on translation techniques by Molina and Hurtado Albir (2002). They have striven to create a unified classification system of translation techniques.…”

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“…Transformations of the original due to the structural discrepancies of the languages involved (such as displacements and inversions (8.28% of all the oblique translation procedures) are, in Vásquez Ayora's classification, operative technical procedures rather than translation techniques (Ayora in Molina and Hurtado Albir, 2002). Nevertheless, their application often changes the stylistic effect of the target text.…”

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“…Transformational analysis was based on A. Molina and L. Hurtado Albir's list of the following translation techniques: adaptation, linguistic amplification, amplification, borrowing, calque, compensation, linguistic compression, discursive creation, description, elision, established equivalent, generalization, modulation, particularization, substitution, literal translation, transposition, and variation (Molina and Hurtado Albir, 2002). However, it should be noted that not all of these techniques were applied within the frameworks of this study.…”

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Strategies of Rendering English Medical Terminology into Russian Within a Fictional Text

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2014

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Abstract. This article explores the problem of rendering medical terminology in a fictional text. The findings are based on the comparative analysis of the original and translated versions of "The Signature of All Things" by E. Gilbert (translated into Russian by Yu. Zmeyeva). The aim of the present study is to analyze the translation procedures applied for rendering medical terminology outside of a specialized text, and to evaluate the Russian version in terms of its adequacy and acceptability. To achieve this aim we used the descriptive statistical analysis, distributional analysis of the translation techniques, contrastive analysis in order to evaluate the translation's adequacy and acceptability. Results of the study suggest that medical terminology in fiction is rarely rendered by the direct equivalents or borrowings (26.02%), which are reflected in the etymological discrepancy of the source language (SL) and target language (TL) texts. Among the literal translation techniques calques predominated (49.02% vs. 31.37% -transcriptions and 19.61% -borrowings), while among the oblique translation techniques amplifications took a prominent position (31.72% vs. 10.34% -compressions/reductions, 8.28% -displacements/inversions, 15.86% -transpositions, 9.66% -modulations, 13.11% -variations, 11.03% -discursive creations). Preponderance of amplifications and overall tendency towards oblique rendering signals an acceptability-oriented translation strategy. Keywords: medical terminology, English to Russian, translation, rendering terminology, fiction text. IntroductionDue to a high popular demand for an erudite (intellectual) fiction, a new type of hybrid texts replete with terminological units and possessing rhetorical properties of scientific and technical literature has evolved. However, unlike in the movies and TV-series (Lozano and Matalava 2009, Jaskanen 1999), the ratio of special terminology (in our case, medical), its characteristics and functioning in fiction has never been consistently researched. By extension, the factors influencing the effectiveness of translation when medical terminology is in focus remain unaddressed. Our study is aimed at examining the strategies applied in rendering such texts, allowing us to make a conclusion whether the translation is adequacy-oriented or acceptability-oriented. The hypothesis that the hybrid fictional texts with a high ratio of medical terminology require sense-for-sense, rather than word-for-word translation techniques promoted the study of etymological features of the corresponding terminology in the original and translated versions of "The Signature of All Things" by E Gilbert. Further, a descriptive statistical analysis of literal and oblique translation techniques was made to prove our claim.Presence of the terminology (LSP) has long been considered an indicative feature of scientific and technical texts. However, nowadays we observe the development of a more diversified discourse typology: fiction amalgamates characteristics of the previously disconnected disc...

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Strategies of Translation

Sun¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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Translation Techniques Revisited: A Dynamic and Functionalist Approach

Abstract: Volume 47, numéro 4, décembre 2002 URI : id.erudit.org/iderudit/008033ar

Cited by 618 publications

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Implicatures in the Persian and Turkish Translations of Four American Short Stories

Implicatures in the Persian and Turkish Translations of Four American Short Stories

Strategies of Rendering English Medical Terminology into Russian Within a Fictional Text

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