31.1693, Books: Semantic differences in translation: Vandevoorde

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Subject: 31.1693, Books: Semantic differences in translation: Vandevoorde

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 10:04:52
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Semantic differences in translation: Vandevoorde

 


Title: Semantic differences in translation 
Subtitle: Exploring the field of inchoativity 
Series Title: Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/194 


Author: Lore Vandevoorde

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961100729 Pages: 247 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

Although the notion of meaning has always been at the core of translation, the
invariance of meaning has, partly due to practical constraints, rarely been
challenged in Corpus-based Translation Studies. In answer to this, the aim of
this book is to question the invariance of meaning in translated texts: if
translation scholars agree on the fact that translated language is different
from non-translated language with respect to a number of grammatical and
lexical aspects, would it be possible to identify differences between
translated and non-translated language on the semantic level too? More
specifically, this books tries to formulate an answer to the following three
questions: (i) how can semantic differences in translated vs non-translated
language be investigated in a corpus-based study?, (ii) are there any
differences on the semantic level between translated and non-translated
language? and (iii) if there are differences on the semantic level, can we
ascribe them to any of the (universal) tendencies of translation? In this
book, I establish a way to visually explore semantic similarity on the basis
of representations of translated and non-translated semantic fields. A
technique for the comparison of semantic fields of translated and
non-translated language called SMM++ (based on Helge Dyvik’s Semantic Mirrors
method) is developed, yielding statistics-based visualizations of semantic
fields. The SMM++ is presented via the case of inchoativity in Dutch (beginnen
[to begin]). By comparing the visualizations of the semantic fields on
different levels (translated Dutch with French as a source language, with
English as a source language and non-translated Dutch) I further explore
whether the differences between translated and non-translated fields of
inchoativity in Dutch can be linked to any of the well-known universals of
translation. The main results of this study are explained on the basis of two
cognitively inspired frameworks: Halverson’s Gravitational Pull Hypothesis and
Paradis’ neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)


Written In: English  (eng)

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