How do English translations differ from non-translated English writings? A multi-feature statistical model for linguistic variation analysis
How do English translations differ from non-translated English writings? A multi-feature statistical model for linguistic variation analysis
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DOI：
10.1515/cllt-2014-0047
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Hardie, Andrew
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作者：
Hu, Xianyao;Xiao, Richard;Hardie, Andrew
本文讨论了“翻译普遍性”的有争议的假设，即。e.翻译文本与原文话语之间反复出现的共同特征。我们认为，如果翻译语言确实有一些独特的语言特征，在同一种语言的非翻译作品相比，这些差异应该是统计上显着的，一致分布和系统地跨域和体裁共现。本文基于翻译英语语料库（COTE）和弗赖堡-LOB英国英语语料库（FLOB），通过对96个词汇、句法和语篇特征的多特征统计分析，试图找出翻译英语文本中的显著特征。我们还提出，本文所建立的文体统计模型不仅可以有效地分析英语的翻译变异，而且可以将这些变异特征聚类到一个“翻译”维度中，从而有助于翻译语言的跨语言比较（如：英语的翻译变异）。G.翻译普遍性假设的检验。
This paper discusses the debatable hypotheses of "Translation Universals", i. e. the recurring common features of translated texts in relation to original utterances. We propose that, if translational language does have some distinctive linguistic features in contrast to non-translated writings in the same language, those differences should be statistically significant, consistently distributed and systematically co-occurring across registers and genres. Based on the balanced Corpus of Translational English (COTE) and its non-translated English counterpart, the Freiburg-LOB corpus of British English (FLOB), and by deploying a multi-feature statistical analysis on 96 lexical, syntactic and textual features, we try to pinpoint those distinctive features in translated English texts. We also propose that the stylo-statistical model developed in this study will be effective not only in analysing the translational variation of English but also be capable of clustering those variational features into a "translational" dimension which will facilitate a crosslinguistic comparison of translational languages (e. g. translational Chinese) to test the Translation Universals hypotheses.