Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based study
This article presents a corpus-based study developed to determine the degree of creativity (as opposed to conventionalism) in the translation of cultural elements. Considering creativity as the use of those strategies that manipulate the lexical material of the source language, a literary corpus con...
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2018-01-01
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| description | This article presents a corpus-based study developed to determine the degree of creativity (as opposed to conventionalism) in the translation of cultural elements. Considering creativity as the use of those strategies that manipulate the lexical material of the source language, a literary corpus consisting of 50 novels (25 translations and 25 corresponding originals) was examined through corpus linguistics. Firstly, culture-specific elements were identified; secondly, translation strategies were determined; and finally, they were placed in conventional or creative groups. The results show that transposition of culture-specific elements is strictly related to creativity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-488ef163f2d748b9b3fa7a432c67bcd52024-12-18T16:02:07ZcatUniversitat de ValènciaQuaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics1135-416X2444-14492018-01-01222210.7203/qf.22.11308Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based studyVirginia Mattioli0Universitat Jaume IThis article presents a corpus-based study developed to determine the degree of creativity (as opposed to conventionalism) in the translation of cultural elements. Considering creativity as the use of those strategies that manipulate the lexical material of the source language, a literary corpus consisting of 50 novels (25 translations and 25 corresponding originals) was examined through corpus linguistics. Firstly, culture-specific elements were identified; secondly, translation strategies were determined; and finally, they were placed in conventional or creative groups. The results show that transposition of culture-specific elements is strictly related to creativity.https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/11308corpus linguisticstranslation studiescultural elementscreativitytranslation techniques |
| spellingShingle | Virginia Mattioli Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based study Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics corpus linguistics translation studies cultural elements creativity translation techniques |
| title | Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based study |
| title_full | Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based study |
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| title_short | Translator’s creativity in cultural elements transposition: a corpus-based study |
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