Translation Awareness of Conveying Discourse Relations: A Study on English TED Talks and Their Translation into Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish


Oleškevičienė G. V., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Mendes A., Gulbinskienė D., Rotomskis I.

4th International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education, TECH-EDU 2024, Abu Dhabi, Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri, 13 - 15 Kasım 2024, cilt.2480 CCIS, ss.17-35, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 2480 CCIS
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-032-02672-9_2
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Abu Dhabi
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.17-35
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Discourse Relations, Explicit Discourse Connectives, Explicitation, Implicitation, Multilingual Corpus, Translation
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study is cross-linguistically framed to raise translator awareness by illuminating the limits and extent of variation regarding the organization of discourse relations in two English TED talk transcripts and their translation into Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish. Within a coherence-based approach and using quantitative and qualitative analyses, the study focused on the differences in the organization of explicit versus other relation types in the TLs (target languages) and then the distribution of relations to senses was explored, showing Portuguese diverged from English. Across languages, Condition, Contrast, and Concession were mostly expressed by explicit means, while Conjunction and to a lesser extent, Result might be implicit. Frequency analyses suggested that implicitation of discourse connectives was not frequent in the target languages, but one Portuguese transcript displayed frequent implicitations, raising the possibility that implicitation may be an option taken by some translators.