Direction of translation and textual cohesion: A study of two Spanish translations of The Analects using Coh-Metrix-Esp
This study set out to investigate the effect of direction in textual cohesion. It compares two Spanish translations of 论语 (The Analects) from Chinese, one by a non-native translator and the other by a native translator. Using Coh-Metrix-Esp, both translations are analyzed at the lexical, syntactica...
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Ediciones Complutense
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CLAC/article/view/81171 |
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| Summary: | This study set out to investigate the effect of direction in textual cohesion. It compares two Spanish translations of 论语 (The Analects) from Chinese, one by a non-native translator and the other by a native translator. Using Coh-Metrix-Esp, both translations are analyzed at the lexical, syntactical, and textual levels to evaluate the overall textual cohesion. The results confirmed an effect of direction in translation: translation conducted by a native speaker is more coherent and easier to read than that by a non-native translator. However, some parameters revisited also suggest that non-native translator can be more successful in some respects. Our conclusion is that there is no apparent advantage of a native translator over a non-native translator.
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| ISSN: | 1576-4737 |