Verbs of perception and evidentiality in English/French translation

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI:10.1075/lic.00028.hen

Daniel Henkel

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Abstract

Differences between verbs of perception in English and French have often been a subject of theoretical conjecture, but seldom studied empirically. Four such verbs (En. hear, see, Fr. entendre, voir) were thus inventoried in a 13.5m-word bidirectional English/French translation corpus. A statistically significant difference between translators and authors was found for hear and entendre. Correlations between source and target texts were statistically significant for all verbs. Quantitative analysis of random samples revealed five regular alternatives to word-for-word translation. Qualitative data support the hypothesis that verbs of perception may follow different “evidential strategies” in English and French. An approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify translators closest to target language norms offers a new model for researchers and translators.

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英语/法语翻译中的感知动词和证据性动词

英语和法语中的感知动词之间的差异常常是理论猜测的主题，但很少进行实证研究。因此，我们在一个 1350 万字的英语/法语双向翻译语料库中调查了四个此类动词（En. hear, see, Fr. entendre, voir）。结果发现，在 hear 和 entendre 这两个动词上，译者和作者之间存在明显的统计学差异。在所有动词中，源文本和目标文本之间的相关性在统计学上都有显著意义。对随机样本的定量分析发现了五种常规的逐字翻译替代方法。定性数据支持感知动词在英语和法语中可能遵循不同 "证据策略 "的假设。结合定量和定性分析来识别最接近目标语言规范的译者的方法为研究人员和译者提供了一种新的模式。

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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.