Explicitation and implicitation in translation Combining comparable and parallel corpus methodologies

This paper studies explicitation and implicitation in translated medical texts using a combination of comparable and parallel corpus methodologies. Previous corpus research in this domain has shown common lexical and syntactic shifts between translated and non-translated texts (Askehave & Zethsen 2000; Jensen & Zethsen 2012), including differences in explicitation rates surrounding Latin-Greek (LG) terms (Jiménez-Crespo & Tercedor 2017). A parallel corpus section was compiled in order to identify whether the observed higher explicitation ratios in English to Spanish translations when compared to similar non-translated texts in this last study are due to (1) cross-linguistic interference or replication of source text structures, or (2) to the translational tendency to explicitate. The results point to a possible combination of both, with 21% of cases of explicitation and no implicitation. Higher explicitation ratios mainly support the interference or cross-linguistic influence hypothesis (Kruger 2018). This study also offers support for the risk aversion hypothesis (Pym 2005, 2015; Kruger 2018; De Sutter & Kruger 2018), as translations only show a tendency to include clearer and more explicit formulations. Recibido / Received: 28/04/2020 Aceptado / Accepted: 25/08/2020 Para enlazar con este artículo / To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2021.13.02 Para citar este artículo / To cite this article: Jiménez-Crespo, Miguel Ángel & Maribel Tercedor Sánchez. (2021) “Explicitation and implicitation in translation: Combining comparable and parallel corpus methodologies.” In: Calzada, María & Sara Laviosa (eds.) 2021. Reflexión crítica en los estudios de traducción basados en corpus / CTS spring-cleaning: A critical reflection. MonTI 13, pp. 62-92. Esta obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional.