Target Text Contraction in English-into-Korean Translations

A Contradiction of Presumed Translation Universals

Bibliographic Data

ID4345003
AuthorsHo-Jeong Cheong (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume51
Issue2
Pages343-367
Publication date2006-08-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/013261ar
OpenAlexW2143231262
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

This paper contradicts the prevailing assumptions among the advocates of translation universals (TU's) that explicitation, a translation behavior which consists of spelling things out rather than leaving them implicit in translation, is a potential TU, irrespective of the specific language pairs involved in the process of translation. Specifically, via a study employing a newly built 517,609-word parallel corpus, it is shown that implicitation and the subsequent TT contraction as well as explicitation and TT expansion entailed were both observed in translations involving Korean and English. The significance of the direction of language combinations in translations employing the same language pair was identified, together with the introduction and verification of the validity of the four measurement units devised for this study to capture diverse aspects of explicitation/implicitation which in turn entail TT expansion/contraction

Contraction (grammar) · Contradiction · Dynamic and formal equivalence · Linguistics · Machine translation · Natural language processing · Problem of universals · Spelling · Translation (biology) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Text Readability and Simplification · Translation Studies and Practices

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