Haidee Kruger
Biographic Data
| ID | 178135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haidee Kruger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haidee |
| FAMILY NAME | Kruger |
| SIGNATURE | KRUGER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5721-0733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structura…
Concepts of translators and translation in online social media
This article focuses on the conceptual representation of 'the translator' and 'translation' in online social media.It constructs a theoretical framework for the analysis by drawing on two bodies of work: (a) existing theorizations of conceptualizations of 'the translator' and 'translation', and (b) research on social media as a computational, discursive, and performative space in which people construct identity configurations in relation to broad…
Linguistic indicators differentiating translated and untranslated diplomatic discourse
Prescriptivism, editing, and morphosyntactic variation in written South African Englishes
Hyper-conventional, unconventional, or "just right"? The interplay of normalisation and cross-linguistic influence in the use of modal particles in translated Chinese children's literature
The interplay between normalisation and cross-linguistic influence (CLI) has not been widely investigated in the specialised text type of children's literature. Yet it may be proposed that normalisation would be particularly salient in translated children's books as a consequence of the importance assigned to the needs of the target audience. This study embarks on an investigation of normalisation in Chinese children's literature translated from …
The effects of training on reading behaviour and performance in sight translation
This longitudinal study focuses on the impact of training on trainee interpreters’ reading behaviour and performance during sight translation (ST) when dealing with texts of different syntactic complexities, compared to a control group. Participants sight translated four texts, two semesters apart, while their eye movements were captured. Mixed-effects modelling was used to investigate how the independent variables of Complexity, Test Time and Gr…
Response by Kotze and Strowe to “Representing experiential knowledge”
In March 2021, a (social) media furore over the suitability of the translators of Amanda Gorman's poem “The Hill We Climb” erupted, prompted by an opinion piece by Dutch activist Janice Deul. Deul
Contrast, Contact, Convergence? Afrikaans and English Modal Auxiliaries in South African Parliamentary Discourse (1925–1985)
This article investigates modal auxiliaries in original and translated Afrikaans and South African English parliamentary discourse in the period 1925–1985. Against the background of the sociolinguistic history of language contact in the bilingual South African parliament (1910–1994), it analyses (a) the contrastive differences in the use of modal auxiliaries in South African English and Afrikaans, (b) potential cross-linguistic influence in the u…
Democratisation in the South African parliamentary Hansard? A study of change in modal auxiliaries
Explicitation in children’s literature translated from English to Chinese
There is substantial empirical evidence that translated texts demonstrate increased explicitness of lexicogrammatical encoding (or explicitation) compared to both source texts and non-translated texts in the target language. This increased explicitness has been ascribed to a number of causes, including source-language transfer or cross-linguistic priming, cognitive complexity or effort, and conservatism or risk aversion. This study investigates t…
That Again
This article aims to disentangle three explanations that have been proposed for the increased explicitness of translated English, as reflected in the more frequent use of the complementiser that in translated English texts compared to non-translated English texts. These three explanations are designated as the cognitive complexity (or processing strain) hypothesis, the pragmatic risk-aversion hypothesis and the source-language transfer hypothesis…
Conjunctive markers in translation from English to Arabic
This study investigates the use of conjunctive markers in translated Arabic texts against the background of corpus-based research on the recurrent features of translated language. Quantitative corpus-linguistic methods were used to investigate a comparable corpus of translated and non-translated Arabic that includes two registers, namely creative fictional narratives and legal writing. The aim of the analysis was to determine whether the independ…
Colloquialization versus Densification in Australian English
Colloquialization has been identified as one of the most important factors in short-term language change, and has been proposed as playing a particularly important role in Australian English. At the same time, some studies have observed the contrasting trend of densification (as one manifestation of anti-colloquialization), where information is condensed into fewer words—a characteristic of written language unlike the more diffuse expression expe…
Register variation in written contact varieties of English
Previous research suggests there are register differences between native and non-native varieties of English, as well as translated English. This article reports on a multidimensional (MD) analysis of register variation in the published written registers of 16 varieties of English, and tests expectations for register variation in contact varieties evident from existing research. The study finds that the effects of variety and register are largely…
What’s happening when nothing’s happening? Combining eyetracking and keylogging to explore cognitive processing during pauses in translation production
This article investigates whether a combination of eyetracking and keylogging can yield a better understanding of the cognitive processing that occurs during pauses in translation production. It analyses the interaction between a number of temporal and spatial variables associated with pausing (including pause duration, the syntactic location of the pause and reading behaviour during the pause). Eight third-year students of translation, translati…
Constrained language
Translation and non-native indigenised varieties of English are produced in contexts where heightened constraints operate on them. Recurrent features of translated language include explicitation, normalisation or conventionalisation, simplification, and homogenisation. Similar features in non-native indigenised varieties of English include hyperclarity, anti-deletion, regularisation, simplification and register shifts. This article adopts a multi…
Syntactic and pragmatic transfer effects in reported-speech constructions in three contact varieties of English influenced by Afrikaans
Using the features of translated language to investigate translation expertise
The study reported on in this article set out to test the hypothesis that linguistic operationalisations of the features of translated language will demonstrate significant differences in the work of experienced and inexperienced translators. A custom-built comparable English corpus was used, comprising three subcorpora: translations produced by experienced translators, translations by inexperienced translators, and non-translated texts. A number…
The translation of cultural aspects in South African children's literature in Afrikaans and English
This paper explores the textual-linguistic norms evident in the translation of culturally specific material in a sample of translated South African children's books in Afrikaans and English, with a view to investigating the tensions between domestication and foreignisation, particularly as related to different types of books, such as primers, local picture books, and international picture books. A detailed qualitative textual analysis of micro-le…
Register and the features of translated language
Against the background of current corpus-based research on the features of translated language, this study investigates two research questions that emerge as “gaps” in existing research: (1) What are the occurrence patterns for the different hypothesised features of translated language, investigated together? (2) What is the relationship between register and the features of translated language? Utilising a comparable corpus of translated and orig…
Exploring a New Narratological Paradigm for the Analysis of Narrative Communication in Translated Children’s Literature
Current contributions attempting to draw together translation studies and narratology are based almost exclusively on structuralist narratology, proceeding from the assumption that changes on the micro-level of the text will result in changes to the various narrative dimensions of the text, and will lead to a different configuration of the narrative communication situation in translated texts as compared to original works. However, it is argued i…
Language-in-education policy, publishing and the translation of children's books in South Africa
The central focus of the article is the roles of translation in the production of children's books in South Africa, and how issues of multilingualism, power differentials between languages and language-in-education policy affect the uses and functions of translation in the production of children's books in South Africa. The article first provides a brief overview of the discursive and practical situation relating to education, multilingualism and…
Towards a paradigm for the study of the translation of children's literature in the South African educational context
This article sets out some considerations for a study of the translation of children's literature in the South African educational context. It briefly focuses on the uses of children's books, particularly in terms of education, before proceeding to some of the key issues that have shaped academic discourse surrounding the translation of children's literature and a brief overview of available research, focusing particularly on South Africa. This i…
Constrained language
Translation and non-native indigenised varieties of English are produced in contexts where heightened constraints operate on them. Recurrent features of translated language include explicitation, normalisation or conventionalisation, simplification, and homogenisation. Similar features in non-native indigenised varieties of English include hyperclarity, anti-deletion, regularisation, simplification and register shifts. This article adopts a multi…
Using the features of translated language to investigate translation expertise
The study reported on in this article set out to test the hypothesis that linguistic operationalisations of the features of translated language will demonstrate significant differences in the work of experienced and inexperienced translators. A custom-built comparable English corpus was used, comprising three subcorpora: translations produced by experienced translators, translations by inexperienced translators, and non-translated texts. A number…
Syntactic and pragmatic transfer effects in reported-speech constructions in three contact varieties of English influenced by Afrikaans
Colloquialization versus Densification in Australian English
Colloquialization has been identified as one of the most important factors in short-term language change, and has been proposed as playing a particularly important role in Australian English. At the same time, some studies have observed the contrasting trend of densification (as one manifestation of anti-colloquialization), where information is condensed into fewer words—a characteristic of written language unlike the more diffuse expression expe…
Register variation in written contact varieties of English
Previous research suggests there are register differences between native and non-native varieties of English, as well as translated English. This article reports on a multidimensional (MD) analysis of register variation in the published written registers of 16 varieties of English, and tests expectations for register variation in contact varieties evident from existing research. The study finds that the effects of variety and register are largely…
Conjunctive markers in translation from English to Arabic
This study investigates the use of conjunctive markers in translated Arabic texts against the background of corpus-based research on the recurrent features of translated language. Quantitative corpus-linguistic methods were used to investigate a comparable corpus of translated and non-translated Arabic that includes two registers, namely creative fictional narratives and legal writing. The aim of the analysis was to determine whether the independ…
Language-in-education policy, publishing and the translation of children's books in South Africa
The central focus of the article is the roles of translation in the production of children's books in South Africa, and how issues of multilingualism, power differentials between languages and language-in-education policy affect the uses and functions of translation in the production of children's books in South Africa. The article first provides a brief overview of the discursive and practical situation relating to education, multilingualism and…
Democratisation in the South African parliamentary Hansard? A study of change in modal auxiliaries
Explicitation in children’s literature translated from English to Chinese
There is substantial empirical evidence that translated texts demonstrate increased explicitness of lexicogrammatical encoding (or explicitation) compared to both source texts and non-translated texts in the target language. This increased explicitness has been ascribed to a number of causes, including source-language transfer or cross-linguistic priming, cognitive complexity or effort, and conservatism or risk aversion. This study investigates t…
Towards a paradigm for the study of the translation of children's literature in the South African educational context
This article sets out some considerations for a study of the translation of children's literature in the South African educational context. It briefly focuses on the uses of children's books, particularly in terms of education, before proceeding to some of the key issues that have shaped academic discourse surrounding the translation of children's literature and a brief overview of available research, focusing particularly on South Africa. This i…
Language-in-education policy, publishing and the translation of children's books in South Africa
The central focus of the article is the roles of translation in the production of children's books in South Africa, and how issues of multilingualism, power differentials between languages and language-in-education policy affect the uses and functions of translation in the production of children's books in South Africa. The article first provides a brief overview of the discursive and practical situation relating to education, multilingualism and…
Register and the features of translated language
Against the background of current corpus-based research on the features of translated language, this study investigates two research questions that emerge as “gaps” in existing research: (1) What are the occurrence patterns for the different hypothesised features of translated language, investigated together? (2) What is the relationship between register and the features of translated language? Utilising a comparable corpus of translated and orig…
Exploring a New Narratological Paradigm for the Analysis of Narrative Communication in Translated Children’s Literature
Current contributions attempting to draw together translation studies and narratology are based almost exclusively on structuralist narratology, proceeding from the assumption that changes on the micro-level of the text will result in changes to the various narrative dimensions of the text, and will lead to a different configuration of the narrative communication situation in translated texts as compared to original works. However, it is argued i…
The translation of cultural aspects in South African children's literature in Afrikaans and English
This paper explores the textual-linguistic norms evident in the translation of culturally specific material in a sample of translated South African children's books in Afrikaans and English, with a view to investigating the tensions between domestication and foreignisation, particularly as related to different types of books, such as primers, local picture books, and international picture books. A detailed qualitative textual analysis of micro-le…
Using the features of translated language to investigate translation expertise
The study reported on in this article set out to test the hypothesis that linguistic operationalisations of the features of translated language will demonstrate significant differences in the work of experienced and inexperienced translators. A custom-built comparable English corpus was used, comprising three subcorpora: translations produced by experienced translators, translations by inexperienced translators, and non-translated texts. A number…
What’s happening when nothing’s happening? Combining eyetracking and keylogging to explore cognitive processing during pauses in translation production
This article investigates whether a combination of eyetracking and keylogging can yield a better understanding of the cognitive processing that occurs during pauses in translation production. It analyses the interaction between a number of temporal and spatial variables associated with pausing (including pause duration, the syntactic location of the pause and reading behaviour during the pause). Eight third-year students of translation, translati…
Constrained language
Translation and non-native indigenised varieties of English are produced in contexts where heightened constraints operate on them. Recurrent features of translated language include explicitation, normalisation or conventionalisation, simplification, and homogenisation. Similar features in non-native indigenised varieties of English include hyperclarity, anti-deletion, regularisation, simplification and register shifts. This article adopts a multi…
Syntactic and pragmatic transfer effects in reported-speech constructions in three contact varieties of English influenced by Afrikaans
That Again
This article aims to disentangle three explanations that have been proposed for the increased explicitness of translated English, as reflected in the more frequent use of the complementiser that in translated English texts compared to non-translated English texts. These three explanations are designated as the cognitive complexity (or processing strain) hypothesis, the pragmatic risk-aversion hypothesis and the source-language transfer hypothesis…
Conjunctive markers in translation from English to Arabic
This study investigates the use of conjunctive markers in translated Arabic texts against the background of corpus-based research on the recurrent features of translated language. Quantitative corpus-linguistic methods were used to investigate a comparable corpus of translated and non-translated Arabic that includes two registers, namely creative fictional narratives and legal writing. The aim of the analysis was to determine whether the independ…
Colloquialization versus Densification in Australian English
Colloquialization has been identified as one of the most important factors in short-term language change, and has been proposed as playing a particularly important role in Australian English. At the same time, some studies have observed the contrasting trend of densification (as one manifestation of anti-colloquialization), where information is condensed into fewer words—a characteristic of written language unlike the more diffuse expression expe…
Register variation in written contact varieties of English
Previous research suggests there are register differences between native and non-native varieties of English, as well as translated English. This article reports on a multidimensional (MD) analysis of register variation in the published written registers of 16 varieties of English, and tests expectations for register variation in contact varieties evident from existing research. The study finds that the effects of variety and register are largely…
Explicitation in children’s literature translated from English to Chinese
There is substantial empirical evidence that translated texts demonstrate increased explicitness of lexicogrammatical encoding (or explicitation) compared to both source texts and non-translated texts in the target language. This increased explicitness has been ascribed to a number of causes, including source-language transfer or cross-linguistic priming, cognitive complexity or effort, and conservatism or risk aversion. This study investigates t…
Democratisation in the South African parliamentary Hansard? A study of change in modal auxiliaries
Response by Kotze and Strowe to “Representing experiential knowledge”
In March 2021, a (social) media furore over the suitability of the translators of Amanda Gorman's poem “The Hill We Climb” erupted, prompted by an opinion piece by Dutch activist Janice Deul. Deul
Contrast, Contact, Convergence? Afrikaans and English Modal Auxiliaries in South African Parliamentary Discourse (1925–1985)
This article investigates modal auxiliaries in original and translated Afrikaans and South African English parliamentary discourse in the period 1925–1985. Against the background of the sociolinguistic history of language contact in the bilingual South African parliament (1910–1994), it analyses (a) the contrastive differences in the use of modal auxiliaries in South African English and Afrikaans, (b) potential cross-linguistic influence in the u…
The effects of training on reading behaviour and performance in sight translation
This longitudinal study focuses on the impact of training on trainee interpreters’ reading behaviour and performance during sight translation (ST) when dealing with texts of different syntactic complexities, compared to a control group. Participants sight translated four texts, two semesters apart, while their eye movements were captured. Mixed-effects modelling was used to investigate how the independent variables of Complexity, Test Time and Gr…
Hyper-conventional, unconventional, or "just right"? The interplay of normalisation and cross-linguistic influence in the use of modal particles in translated Chinese children's literature
The interplay between normalisation and cross-linguistic influence (CLI) has not been widely investigated in the specialised text type of children's literature. Yet it may be proposed that normalisation would be particularly salient in translated children's books as a consequence of the importance assigned to the needs of the target audience. This study embarks on an investigation of normalisation in Chinese children's literature translated from …
Concepts of translators and translation in online social media
This article focuses on the conceptual representation of 'the translator' and 'translation' in online social media.It constructs a theoretical framework for the analysis by drawing on two bodies of work: (a) existing theorizations of conceptualizations of 'the translator' and 'translation', and (b) research on social media as a computational, discursive, and performative space in which people construct identity configurations in relation to broad…
Linguistic indicators differentiating translated and untranslated diplomatic discourse
Prescriptivism, editing, and morphosyntactic variation in written South African Englishes
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structura…
Linguistics (20 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 works)