Cohesion in Polish-English Translation and Its Implications for Translator Training

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.18.2.06

Marcin Lewandowski

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This paper focuses on the ways of maintaining cohesive links in the translation process in the Polish-English language pair. Of primary interest is how the thematic/rhematic structure of Polish sentences can be successfully rendered in English to produce cohesive, natural-sounding and communicative target texts with a proper information flow. These aspects have implications for translation teaching. It has been observed that, in view of the differences between Polish and English word order, university students at the start of their translator training experience two general problems as they attempt to translate longer stretches of text into English: (1) they produce cohesive passages, which contain errors in word order (due to syntactic interference from Polish) or (2) they produce grammatically correct sentences, which, however, form incohesive passages (i.e. ones in which the thematic/rhematic progression is not retained) with an inappropriate information structure. For this reason, students need to become acquainted with some practical solutions that help build cohesion in Polish-English translation. These include (1) shifts from active to passive, (2) other shifts in syntactic functions, (3) fronting, and (4) inventing sentence subjects out of broader context.

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波英翻译中的衔接及其对译者培养的启示

本文着重探讨了在波兰语-英语语对翻译过程中保持衔接的方法。本文主要研究的是如何将波兰语句子的主位/修辞结构成功地翻译成英语，从而产生连贯、自然、具有交际能力、信息流合理的译文。这些方面对翻译教学具有启示意义。据观察，鉴于波兰语和英语词序的差异，大学生在开始接受翻译培训时，在试图将较长的文本翻译成英语时，遇到了两个普遍的问题:(1)他们产生了衔接的段落，其中包含词序错误(由于波兰语的句法干扰);(2)他们产生了语法正确的句子，然而，这些句子形成了不连贯的段落(即没有保留主位/修辞进程)，信息结构不适当。因此，学生需要熟悉一些实用的解决方案，以帮助在波兰语-英语翻译中建立衔接。这包括(1)从主动到被动的转变，(2)句法功能的其他转变，(3)前置，以及(4)在更广泛的上下文中发明句子主语。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.