Are Translators Really Subservient? Empirical Evidence from Lexical Transfer and Language Prestige in Curaçao

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2020-09-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.18.3.01

Courtney G. Parkins-Ferrón

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Abstract

This paper examines whether translator subservience is generalisable among translators. Taking professional Curaçaoan Papiamentu translators as a case study built on a much larger work, the research looks at issues of subservience from the perspective of agency in the English-to-Papiamentu lexical transfer process and at the influence of language prestige. The results show instances in which the translators reported more lexical transfers than did the non-translators. The results also reveal an overlooked translator agency in the process rather than translator subservience, in view of the fact that in this process they are on the “frontline”, pre-empting whatever decisions the official language planners make.

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翻译家真的低人一等吗？库拉索语词汇迁移与语言声望的实证研究

本文考察了译者的服从是否具有普遍性。本研究以专业的curaan Papiamentu语翻译为例，从代理的角度探讨英语到Papiamentu语词汇迁移过程中的屈从问题以及语言威望的影响。结果表明，在某些情况下，翻译人员比非翻译人员报告了更多的词汇迁移。研究结果还揭示了翻译机构在这一过程中被忽视，而不是译者的服从，因为在这一过程中，他们处于“第一线”，抢先于官方语言规划者做出的任何决定。

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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.