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Translation Universals

Do they exist?

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Edited by Anna Mauranen and Pekka Kujamäki

University of Tampere / University of Joensuu

Benjamins Translation Library 48

2004. vi, 224 pp.
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978 90 272 1654 0 / EUR 95.00
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Translation universals is one of the most intriguing and controversial topics in recent translation studies. Can we discover general laws of translation, independent of the particularities of individual translations? Research into this is new: serious empirical work only began in the late nineties. The present volume offers the state of the art on the issue. It includes theoretical discussion on alternative conceptualisations and new distinctions around the basic concepts. Several papers test hypotheses on universals in the light of recent work in different languages, and some suggest new ones emerging from empirical work over the last two to three years. The book contributes to the search for generalities in translation, the methodological solutions available, and presents emerging evidence on the kinds of regularities that large-scale research is bringing forth. On a more practical level, the applicability of the hypotheses and findings to translator education is, as always, a concern for translation studies.

Table of contents

Introduction	1–11
I. Conseptualising universals
Probabilistic explanations in translation studies: Welcome as they are, would they qualify as universals? Gideon Toury	15–32
Beyond the particular Andrew Chesterman	33–49
When is a universal not a universal? Some limits of current corpus-based methodologies for the investigation of translation universals Silvia Bernardini and Federico Zanettin	51–62
II. Large-scale tendencies in translated language
Corpora, universals and interference Anna Mauranen	65–82
Untypical frequencies in translated language: A corpus-based study on a literary corpus of translated and non-translated Finnish Sari Eskola	83–99
Untypical patterns in translations: Issues on corpus methodology and synonymity Jarmo Harri Jantunen	101–126
III. Testing the basics
Translation-specific lexicogrammar? Characteristic lexical and collocational patterning in Swedish texts translated from English Per-Ola Nilsson	129–141
Explicitation: A universal of translated text? Vilma Pápai	143–164
Explicitation of clausal relations: A corpus-based analysis of clause connectives in translated and non-translated Finnish children’s literature Tiina Puurtinen	165–176
Unique items — over- or under-represented in translated language? Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit	177–184
IV. Universals in the translation class
What happens to “unique items” in learners’ translations? “Theories” and “concepts” as a challenge for novices’ views on “good translation” Pekka Kujamäki	187–204
The fate of “The Families of Medellín”: Tampering with a potential translation universal in the translation class Riitta Jääskeläinen	205–214
Author index	215–217
Subject index	219–221

“[...] this collection offers an interesting and rewarding insight into this young discipline.”
Lea Cyrus, Münster Unversity, in Language Vol. 82:3 (2006)

Translation & Interpreting Studies: Translation studies