The stylistics and stylometry of collaborative translation: Woolf's Night and Day in Polish

Abstract

© The Author 2013. Published by Oxf ord University Press on behalf of ALLC. All rig hts reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com Issue Section: Original Articles You do not currently have access to this article. Download all figures The study investigates to what extent traditional stylistics and nontraditional stylometry can co-operate in the study of translations in terms of translatorial style. Stylistic authorship attribution methods based on a multivariate analysis of most-frequent-word frequencies are used in attempts at identifying translators. While these methods usually identify the author of the original rather than the translator, a case study is presented of the Polish translation of a single novel by Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, in which one translator took over from the other; the point of this takeover has been successfully identified with the above-mentioned methods.