Translations of Representations of Moving and Saying from English into Spanish

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10879628
AutoresChristian M I M Matthiessen (0000-0003-0247-5723, Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jorge Arús-Hita (0000-0002-8066-6691, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, autor correspondente), Kazuhiro Teruya (0000-0002-3140-6885, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ano2021
Volume67
Fascículo2
Páginas188-207
Data de publicação2021-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWORD (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00437956.2021.1909843
OpenAlexW3195667579
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas21

This paper presents a systemic-functional contrastive analysis of an original English text – a chapter, ‘The Land of Shadow’ from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings – and its Spanish translation, ‘El País de la Sombra’, focusing on the shifts in translation of representations of motion and of saying. These two realms of experience provide an interesting contrast in terms of experiential complexity, as more transitivity parameters are expected to be involved in construing human experience of motion through three-dimensional space than of speech events. From this we can predict (a) that there will be greater differences in the translation of representations of motion than in the translation of representations of saying, and (b) that the differences in the representation of motion will largely reflect the systemic differences between two languages. Our analysis demonstrates that translation shifts in the area of verbs of saying are relatively insignificant whereas the translation of representations of motion extends over the scale from no shift to considerable shift, depending on the extent to which the systems of English and Spanish differ in their modeling of the experience of motion through space and that there tend to be shifts where systemic differences necessitate such shifts

Combinatorics · Linguistics · Motion (physics · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Transitive relation · Translation (biology · Artificial Intelligence · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation