Cet article aborde le concept de l’intelligence interculturelle en traduction à partir d’une étude de cas, concrètement la traduction de l’espagnol vers le français de la pièce de théâtre Bodas de sangre (« Noces de sang ») de Federico García Lorca. L’objectif principal consiste à analyser les références culturelles présentes dans le texte source et la façon dont elles ont été traduites dans le texte cible. Pour ce qui est des objectifs spécifiques, il s’agit de proposer une définition du concept de l’intelligence interculturelle au sens large d’abord, puis en rapport avec la traduction ; délimiter le concept de référence culturelle ; catégoriser les références culturelles du texte source ; examiner les procédés de traduction utilisés par les traducteurs pour recréer les références culturelles du texte source dans le texte cible.
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Food is omnipresent in children’s literature, from Popeye’s Spinach to Detective Cluj’s Carpenter Gums, thus signifying its immense cultural value since cultures and societies are built upon food (Keeling and Pollard 2009, 6). Food narratives are capable of performing a number of functions ranging from evoking a sense of coziness and comfort to being a cause of temptation and power struggle, and these functions ought to come under the spotlight when translating children’s books. This article focuses on the English-Greek examination of translation patterns in the Captain Underpants series and on the critical discussion of the translation strategies that have been employed for the transferring of food items to Greek children. To this end, thirty-five examples of food references are analyzed using a purpose-built schema of translation procedures. The results indicate that translators make a conscious attempt to bring foreign dishes closer to the target language culture by adopting a variety of modification and substitution procedures. This study highlights the intrinsic role that the translation tendencies of preservation, modification, substitution, expansion, transcreation, omission, and creation play in enabling food translation, thus bringing to the fore the important yet neglected area of food translation in children’s literature which can have a profound impact not only on literary but also on translational landscapes.
{"title":"Possibilising food translation in children’s literature","authors":"Despoina Panou","doi":"10.1075/babel.00294.pan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00294.pan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Food is omnipresent in children’s literature, from Popeye’s Spinach to Detective Cluj’s Carpenter Gums, thus signifying its immense cultural value since cultures and societies are built upon food (Keeling and Pollard 2009, 6). Food narratives are capable of performing a number of functions ranging from evoking a sense of coziness and comfort to being a cause of temptation and power struggle, and these functions ought to come under the spotlight when translating children’s books. This article focuses on the English-Greek examination of translation patterns in the Captain Underpants series and on the critical discussion of the translation strategies that have been employed for the transferring of food items to Greek children. To this end, thirty-five examples of food references are analyzed using a purpose-built schema of translation procedures. The results indicate that translators make a conscious attempt to bring foreign dishes closer to the target language culture by adopting a variety of modification and substitution procedures. This study highlights the intrinsic role that the translation tendencies of preservation, modification, substitution, expansion, transcreation, omission, and creation play in enabling food translation, thus bringing to the fore the important yet neglected area of food translation in children’s literature which can have a profound impact not only on literary but also on translational landscapes.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"34 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81189426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study will consider translation as a tool to transfer ideas from Latin America to North America (and the rest of the English-speaking world). It will do so by exploring some of the paratextual strategies that have been employed in transmitting the ideas of Latin American philosophers to the English-speaking world. Specifically, it will rely on a case study, namely, the translation into English of the works of José Enrique Rodó, an important South American philosopher from the early twentieth century. The paper will outline Rodó’s work as translated into English, focusing not on the quality of the translated texts themselves but rather on what the translations were expected to do. As a way to understand their expected functions, the present study will describe the paratextual apparatuses that surround the translations. Such an analysis will rely on Gérard Genette’s work on paratexts to draw conclusions regarding the role of translation in the flow of ideas from the Global South to the Global North.
{"title":"Translating (or Not) a South American Philosopher","authors":"Gabriel González Núñez","doi":"10.1075/babel.00293.gon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00293.gon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study will consider translation as a tool to transfer ideas from Latin America to North America (and the rest of the English-speaking world). It will do so by exploring some of the paratextual strategies that have been employed in transmitting the ideas of Latin American philosophers to the English-speaking world. Specifically, it will rely on a case study, namely, the translation into English of the works of José Enrique Rodó, an important South American philosopher from the early twentieth century. The paper will outline Rodó’s work as translated into English, focusing not on the quality of the translated texts themselves but rather on what the translations were expected to do. As a way to understand their expected functions, the present study will describe the paratextual apparatuses that surround the translations. Such an analysis will rely on Gérard Genette’s work on paratexts to draw conclusions regarding the role of translation in the flow of ideas from the Global South to the Global North.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90563383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Baer & Kaindl (2017): Queering Translation, Translating the Queer: Theory, Practice, Activism","authors":"Y. Ma","doi":"10.1075/babel.00291.ma","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00291.ma","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88757092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article studies the impact of Chinese biblical translation on the Taiping Rebellion in China in the nineteenth century. The rebellion built its ideology based on a unique interpretation of the Bible, aiming at overthrowing the Qing government and building a kingdom of heaven in China. The Bible that had inspired the rebellion was later altered, annotated, and became the Taiping Bible, which integrated the political agenda of the rebellion. This research traces such an event of the Chinese translation of the Bible in the nineteenth century, investigates its connection with the rise of the rebellion and analyzes the Taiping Bible. By examining the discrepancies between the Chinese translation of the Bible and the Taiping Bible, this paper explores the role that translation plays in triggering the rebellion and demonstrates the interplay between translation and the socio-cultural environment in China during that period.
{"title":"A war triggered by translation","authors":"Yue Wang","doi":"10.1075/babel.00290.wan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00290.wan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article studies the impact of Chinese biblical translation on the Taiping Rebellion in China in the\u0000 nineteenth century. The rebellion built its ideology based on a unique interpretation of the Bible, aiming at overthrowing the\u0000 Qing government and building a kingdom of heaven in China. The Bible that had inspired the rebellion was later altered, annotated, and\u0000 became the Taiping Bible, which integrated the political agenda of the rebellion. This research traces such an event of the\u0000 Chinese translation of the Bible in the nineteenth century, investigates its connection with the rise of the rebellion and\u0000 analyzes the Taiping Bible. By examining the discrepancies between the Chinese translation of the Bible and the Taiping Bible,\u0000 this paper explores the role that translation plays in triggering the rebellion and demonstrates the interplay between translation\u0000 and the socio-cultural environment in China during that period.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81100774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores genre variation and simplification in interpreted language from both comparable (interpreted vs. non-interpreted/non-mediated) and intermodal (interpreted vs. translated) perspectives. It draws on a newly built unidirectional comparable and intermodal corpus named the LegCo+, which features legislative proceedings in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (including originals and their translations and interpretations from Cantonese to English), as well as original plenary speeches delivered by native English speakers in the UK Parliament. It investigates the variation patterns of four simplification features in three dimensions, namely, standardized type-token ratio (STTR) and list heads for lexical diversity, lexical density for informativeness, and average sentence length for lexical sophistication. It aims to uncover the effects of mediation and genre, as well as their interaction effects on linguistic variation. The results indicate that texts of different mediation statuses and genre categories vary with respect to simplification patterns. From a comparable perspective, interpretations rely on a narrower range of vocabulary than non-interpretations, but they are also more informative, and such informativeness is dependent on genre categories. Intermodally speaking, interpretations exhibit consistent patterns of simplification, indicating a strong modality (or mode of mediation) effect.
{"title":"Exploring genre variation and simplification in interpreted language from comparable and intermodal\u0000 perspectives","authors":"Xu Cui, Li Dechao","doi":"10.1075/babel.00289.cui","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00289.cui","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores genre variation and simplification in interpreted language from both comparable (interpreted\u0000 vs. non-interpreted/non-mediated) and intermodal (interpreted vs. translated) perspectives. It draws on a newly built\u0000 unidirectional comparable and intermodal corpus named the LegCo+, which features legislative proceedings in the Legislative\u0000 Council of Hong Kong (including originals and their translations and interpretations from Cantonese to English), as well as\u0000 original plenary speeches delivered by native English speakers in the UK Parliament. It investigates the variation patterns of\u0000 four simplification features in three dimensions, namely, standardized type-token ratio (STTR) and list heads for lexical\u0000 diversity, lexical density for informativeness, and average sentence length for lexical sophistication. It aims to uncover the\u0000 effects of mediation and genre, as well as their interaction effects on linguistic variation. The results indicate that texts of\u0000 different mediation statuses and genre categories vary with respect to simplification patterns. From a comparable perspective,\u0000 interpretations rely on a narrower range of vocabulary than non-interpretations, but they are also more informative, and such\u0000 informativeness is dependent on genre categories. Intermodally speaking, interpretations exhibit consistent patterns of\u0000 simplification, indicating a strong modality (or mode of mediation) effect.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85457650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A neutral delivery has often been considered to be the norm in audio description, but it is unclear what a ‘neutral voice’ means. This article begins with a discussion of neutrality in prosody and with a contextualization of AD voicing. It then presents an acoustic analysis of a corpus of audio descriptions in Catalan, English, and Spanish. Based on the results of this analysis, a perception test is designed, and its results are discussed here. The perception test involves participants with sight loss (31 in Spanish, 35 in Catalan, 40 in English) and without sight loss (29 in Spanish, 46 in Catalan, 31 in English) who are asked to define what a neutral voice is for them. Respondents are also asked to select the male and female voices that they consider most neutral. The qualitative analysis of the replies, together with the selection made by participants for both male and female voices across three different languages, sheds some light on how neutrality (or non-neutrality) could be defined. The study does not aim to determine what acoustic features voices should have in the context of audio description but tries to better understand what a neutral voice is, considering that this has traditionally been a frequent expression in research on audio description delivery.
{"title":"Neutral voices in audio descriptions","authors":"M. Machuca, A. Matamala","doi":"10.1075/babel.00287.mac","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00287.mac","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A neutral delivery has often been considered to be the norm in audio description, but it is unclear what a\u0000 ‘neutral voice’ means. This article begins with a discussion of neutrality in prosody and with a contextualization of AD voicing.\u0000 It then presents an acoustic analysis of a corpus of audio descriptions in Catalan, English, and Spanish. Based on the results of\u0000 this analysis, a perception test is designed, and its results are discussed here. The perception test involves participants with\u0000 sight loss (31 in Spanish, 35 in Catalan, 40 in English) and without sight loss (29 in Spanish, 46 in Catalan, 31 in English) who\u0000 are asked to define what a neutral voice is for them. Respondents are also asked to select the male and female voices that they\u0000 consider most neutral. The qualitative analysis of the replies, together with the selection made by participants for both male and\u0000 female voices across three different languages, sheds some light on how neutrality (or non-neutrality) could be defined. The study\u0000 does not aim to determine what acoustic features voices should have in the context of audio description but tries to better\u0000 understand what a neutral voice is, considering that this has traditionally been a frequent expression in research on audio\u0000 description delivery.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81653096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Has post-editing changed the nature of translation? Are these tasks two sides of the same coin? These are some of the questions that recent developments in machine translation have brought to translation studies. The quality of the texts rendered by the new neural engines is good enough to challenge the traditional role of the human translator. Some voices even question whether there might be any place left for translators if, in the near future, their role is finally superseded by that of the post-editor. This paper offers a comprehensive view of the many aspects of post-editing with a view to shedding some light on the nature of this task. I first explore how the progress in machine translation has turned post-editing into an essential activity. Then, I present a proposal for a categorization of research areas in post-editing within the framework of translation studies. The central discussion of this paper revolves around three key ideas: (1) the conceptualization of post-editing as more than a simple, fast and inexpensive task; (2) the framing of post-editing as a dynamic process; and (3) the claim that defining quality in machine translation post-editing is not as straightforward as it may seem. The ultimate goal of this paper is to lay the foundations for further discussion into what it is that post-editing means for translation studies.
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{"title":"Review of Šveda (2021): Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training: Perspectives from Central Europe","authors":"Paweł Korpal","doi":"10.1075/babel.00284.kor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00284.kor","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88217547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper aims at the possible interpretation of the author’s symbol and the potential problem of its accurate translation into Russian. On the notable example of Njegoš’ lyrical poem A Night More Precious than a Century we presented the specific algorithm of the decoding procedure in deciphering the complex semantics of the author’s symbol, as well as the method of finding its translation equivalent in the Russian language. The analysis starts from the point of view of modern translatology, linguistics, and literary studies and adequately takes into account the relevant data of Njegoshology, as an interdisciplinary science. To elucidate the complex nature of the symbol, as a linguistic sign and its function in the literary text, as well as the possibility of its translation into Russian, various methods were applied: contrastive, etymological, interpretive analysis in the synchronic and diachronic plane. The conducted analysis illustrates the fundamental importance of attentively examining symbols from various aspects, starting from the most elementary linguistic level within the source language, through the literary in the style of the epoch and the idiostyle of the prominent writer and concluding with the interlingual translatological approach. This multifaceted interpretation contributes to resolving the semantics of the symbol and finding its translation equivalent.
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