Možnosti a meze tvorby tzv. optimálních referenčních překladů: po stopách "překladatelštiny" v profesionálních překladech zpravodajských textů

• Authors: Věra Kloudová , David Mraček , Ondřej Bojar , Martin Popel

Title variants

EN

Possibilities and limitations of optimal reference translations: exploring ‘translationese’ in professional translations of newspaper articles

DE

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Erstellung sog. optimaler Referenzübersetzungen: auf den Spuren von "Translationesisch" in professionellen Übersetzungen von Nachrichtentexten

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study explores translation quality by analysing two Czech professional translations of English newspaper articles. The original idea was for a tandem of translators-cum-theoreticians to synthesise the best of the two translations while introducing slight to moderate modifications where necessary, to produce an optimal reference translation, i.e., a translation thought to be the best possible that can be achieved by a team of human translators; optimal reference translations can be used in assessments of excellent machine translations. It soon became apparent, however, that a considerable amount of editing and creativity was needed from the team striving for an optimal reference translation, prompting the present authors to subject the original translations to a detailed assessment. The primary focus is on the formal aspect of the translations and the phenomenon known as ‘translationese’, which is understood here to refer to a lack of sensitivity to target language usage. The problems identified fall into a wide range of categories such as spelling, morphosyntax, grammar, lexicon and word formation. Special attention is paid to source-language interference; having reviewed existing theoretical discussions of interference, the authors drafted a typology which was then expanded to include several other types of errors recurrent in the translations analysed.

Keywords

CS

překladatelština; kvalita překladu; interference; optimální referenční překlad; strojový překlad

EN

translationese; translation quality; interference; optimal reference translation; machine translation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 122-156
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Věra Kloudová

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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David Mraček

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Ondřej Bojar

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Martin Popel

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic