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Kilka uwag o subkompetencji frazeologicznej tłumacza

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Szutkowski T.

Acta Polono-Ruthenica

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2019

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vol. Tom 3 Nr XXIV

139-148

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The topic of this article is a diagnosis of the level of a phraseological sub-competence of a translator conducted on the basis of a survey carried out among students of neophilology with the translator specialization. The aim of the study is to determine the level of linguistic awareness of the surveyed in the area of phraseological sub-competence. The question posed is in what way they comprehend the essence of the multi-word linguistic units and if they can extract supra-lexical units of a translation. As such, the accuracy of a translation is dependent on the correct segmentation of the original. Those surveyed, faced with a 99-word text containing 25 multi-word linguistic units (75% of the whole text), extracted only seven of such structures in at least 50% of their answers. It can be deduced that the students consider phraseological units extremely idiomatic. In most cases, they do not notice other, less prototypical structures in the text, which should be considered globally in the process of translation. This conclusion justifies the undertaking of firm action in the area of phraseodidactics and phrasal translation as part of a philological academic education.

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Tłumaczenie prawa unijnego a centralne pojęcia przekładoznawstwa

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Biel Ł.

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem

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2016

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vol. 31

107-119

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The objective of the paper was: (1) to analyse EU translation in light of central concepts of Translation Studies, and (2) to attempt a synthesis of numerous studies on EU translation to describe its distinctive features. EU law is adopted in 24 official languages and is applied in 28 Member States. The translation of EU law has an authoritative status. Owing to a complex array of political, procedural, legal and institutional factors, the translation of EU law poses a challenge to central TS concepts, such as a source text and a target text (versus language versions), a translation process (translation as part of a multistage and multilingual drafting process), equivalence (a priori/existential equivalence) and translation quality (uniform application and interpretation of law). The author posits that the translation of EU law is a unique category which requires its own theoretical framework.

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A Cognitive Approach to the Compilation of Test Materials for the Evaluation of Translator's Skills

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Berg E., Kit M.

Cognitive Studies

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2016

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issue 16

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A Cognitive Approach to the Compilation of Test Materials for the Evaluation of Translator's SkillsThis paper discusses the importance of a cognitive approach to the evaluation of translator’s skills. The authors set forth their recommendations for the compilation of test materials for the evaluation of translators’ cognitive ability. Kognitywne podejście do kompilowania tekstów służących ocenie umiejętności tłumaczaArtykuł porusza wagę kognitywnego podejścia do ewaluacji umiejętności tłumacza. Autorzy przedstawiają swoje zalecenia co do kompilowania materiałów testowych do ewaluacji kognitywnych zdolności tłumacza.

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

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Kloudová V., Mraček D., Bojar O., Popel M.

Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)

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2023

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vol. 84

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issue 2

122-156

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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.

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Terminologická a textová kompetence v právním překladu: studie na francouzsko-českém materiálu

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Duběda T., Obdržálková V.

Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics

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2018

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vol. 9

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issue 1

73-91

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In the present study, we tackle the problem of quality in legal translation, and reflect on the related translation competences, among which thematic competence (or legal literacy) plays a central role. A sample of 20 translations of a legal text from French into Czech is analysed first with respect to overall quality. Next, we present a more thorough analysis of 40 terminological items. The sample includes translations done by advanced students of translation and practising translators. The overall quality differs significantly between the two groups, but, surprisingly, legal training does not guarantee better overall quality in the group of professionals. However, after categorising the errors (shifts of meaning — terminology — style), it turns out that legal literacy has a positive impact on the ability to interpret and transfer legal meaning, which is a key subcompetence in legal translation. A detailed analysis of selected legal expressions targets the frequency and typology of errors, variability of translation equivalents, and categorisation of meaning shifts. The analysis offers empirically founded insights into translation procedures in the field of law, and brings indirect evidence of the current state of the translation market.

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Traducteur natif ou non natif ? La directionnalité de la traduction et sa perception

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Duběda T.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2020

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vol. 30

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issue 2

204-217

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This article tackles the question of L2 translation (or non-native translation), examining its role in the translation industry and its specificities. An empirical study was carried out with the aim of objectively evaluating the perception of L2 translation with respect to its nativeness and acceptability. Twenty subjects having French as their mother tongue gave their opinion on a set of utterances translated by native and non-native translators. The results show that a certain number of native utterances were identified as non-native, while approximately one half of the non-native utterances were identified as native. The acceptability turns out to be strongly correlated with perceived nativeness. The perceived non-nativeness seems to be determined primarily by stylistic and grammatical errors. No effect of the respondents’ age or domain of education was identified. The proficiency in Czech seems to increase the tolerance towards L2 translation.

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Le présent article aborde la question de la traduction non native et tâche d’étudier son rôle dans le secteur de la traduction professionnelle et les traits qui la caractérisent. Une étude empirique a été menée dans le but d’objectiviser la perception de la traduction non native sur les axes natif/non natif et acceptable/inacceptable. Vingt personnes de langue maternelle française se sont exprimées sur un ensemble d’énoncés traduits par des traducteurs natifs et non natifs. Les résultats montrent, d’une part, qu’un certain nombre d’énoncés natifs ont été identifiés comme non natifs, et d’autre part, qu’environ la moitié des énoncés non natifs ont été identifiés comme natifs. L’acceptabilité s’avère fortement corrélée au caractère natif perçu. La perception du caractère non natif semble déterminée en premier lieu par les fautes de style et de grammaire. Aucun effet lié à l’âge des participants ou à leur domaine de formation n’a pu être identifié. La maîtrise du tchèque semble augmenter la tolérance envers la traduction non native.

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Satzzeichenitis (?!?) ovvero „Nichts ist mir zu klein…“ – Allererste Notizelchen1 zur Qualitätseinschätzung von Übersetzungen über die Zeichensetzung in grafisch kodierten Texten (Arno Schmidts)

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Bauske B. G.

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław

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2019

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issue 15

17–28

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Our aim is to relate criteria for quality assessment in translation to micro elements. Punctuation in Arno Schmidt seems to be a good bet as, with him, this supposedly formal element is instrumental in constituting the sense of a text to a degree far beyond standard state-of-the-art routine.

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Der Beitrag versucht an Minimalelementen Übersetzungsqualität festzumachen. Bei Arno Schmidt bietet sich dafür die Zeichensetzung an, da diese in seinen Texten ein konstitutives Element darstellt, das in seiner Komplexität über Standard und Mainstream weit hinausgeht.

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