Translating emotions

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI:10.1075/lic.00027.ost

Ulrike Oster

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Abstract

Abstract This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. It aims to establish whether there are differences between translated texts and original texts in a given language as to how emotions are expressed and whether emotion conceptualization in the translated texts is closer to that of the source or the target language. To do so, the study focuses on one emotion in a specific language combination: the conceptual domain of anger in German and Spanish. In a first step, analysis of two large reference corpora provides a contrastive description of the concept anger as represented by prototypical emotion lexemes in both languages ( Wut, Zorn and Ärger in German and ira, rabia, enojo in Spanish). Then, the parallel corpus COVALT is used to study three aspects of the expression of anger in Spanish translated texts: conceptual metaphor, physical effects and consequences of the emotion. Analysis of the use of conceptual metaphor shows that both source and target language preferences are present in the target texts. A more marked deviation from target language conventions can be observed in the translation of expressions referring to the physical effects or consequences of anger .

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翻译的情感

摘要本文以语料库为基础，探讨了翻译对情感概念的影响。目的是确定一种特定语言的翻译文本和原文在情感的表达方式上是否存在差异，以及翻译文本中的情感概念化是否更接近源语或目的语。为了做到这一点，这项研究将重点放在一种特定语言组合中的一种情绪上:德语和西班牙语中愤怒的概念领域。首先，通过对两个大型参考语料库的分析，对两种语言(德语的Wut、Zorn和Ärger以及西班牙语的ira、rabia、enojo)中典型情绪词汇所代表的愤怒概念进行了对比描述。然后，利用平行语料库COVALT研究了西班牙语翻译文本中愤怒表达的三个方面:概念隐喻、身体效应和情绪后果。对概念隐喻使用的分析表明，在译语中存在着源语和译语的双重偏好。在翻译有关愤怒的身体影响或后果的表达时，可以观察到与目的语惯例更明显的偏离。

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Languages in Contrast LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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1.50

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40.00%

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期刊介绍： Languages in Contrast aims to publish contrastive studies of two or more languages. Any aspect of language may be covered, including vocabulary, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, text and discourse, stylistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Languages in Contrast welcomes interdisciplinary studies, particularly those that make links between contrastive linguistics and translation, lexicography, computational linguistics, language teaching, literary and linguistic computing, literary studies and cultural studies.