Relative and dynamic aspects of variation in response to lexical repetition : a corpus-based case study of the translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury' into Lithuanian, Polish and Russian
This thesis reports on an exploratory corpus-based study of the dynamic and hybrid aspects of response to lexical repetition in the three translations of Faulknerâs The Sound and the Fury into Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. The main aim was to explore and devise the dimensions of comparing the translatorsâ choices in terms of shapes that I argue to be variably sensitive to the factors of frequency, content and distance among word repetitions found in an original text in contrast to the mainstream assumption of Translation Theory that the tendency is to lose repetitions for aesthetic reasons. One of the methodological problems of research into translating repetitions is that choices for repetitions are usually quantified unsystematically with a focus entirely on repetition loss. Thus the underlying patterns of difference and similarity in response to repetition remain invisible in comparison. The solution was to systematically analyze all the choices that the translators had made for a given set of repetitions. Analysis had to be data-driven and its method had to befit the idea that, though they are scattered across an original text, word repetitions have a continuing effect on the translators. Digital
Salciute-Civiliene, Gabriele
Relative and dynamic aspects of variation in response to lexical repetition : a corpus-based case study of the translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury' into Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. This thesis reports on an exploratory corpus-based study of the dynamic and hybrid aspects of response to lexical repetition in the three translations of Faulknerâs The Sound and the Fury into Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. The main aim was to explore and devise the dimensions of comparing the translatorsâ choices in terms of shapes that I argue to be variably sensitive to the factors of frequency, content and distance among word repetitions found in an original text in contrast to the mainstream assumption of Translation Theory that the tendency is to lose repetitions for aesthetic reasons. One of the methodological problems of research into translating repetitions is that choices for repetitions are usually quantified unsystematically with a focus entirely on repetition loss. Thus the underlying patterns of difference and similarity in response to repetition remain invisible in comparison. The solution was to systematically analyze all the choices that the translators had made for a given set of repetitions. Analysis had to be data-driven and its method had to befit the idea that, though they are scattered across an original text, word repetitions have a continuing effect on the translators. Digital
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