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Are Translators Really Subservient? Empirical Evidence from Lexical Transfer and Language Prestige in Curaçao

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Parkins-Ferrón C. G.
Research in Language
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2020
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vol. 18
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issue 3
245-264
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This paper examines whether translator subservience is generalisable among translators. Taking professional Curaçaoan Papiamentu translators as a case study built on a much larger work, the research looks at issues of subservience from the perspective of agency in the English-to-Papiamentu lexical transfer process and at the influence of language prestige. The results show instances in which the translators reported more lexical transfers than did the non-translators. The results also reveal an overlooked translator agency in the process rather than translator subservience, in view of the fact that in this process they are on the “frontline”, pre-empting whatever decisions the official language planners make.
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Przekłady biblijne na słowiańskie mikrojęzyki literackie

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Lewaszkiewicz T.
Język. Religia. Tożsamość
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2017
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issue 1(15)
145-162
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So far, more than 20 Slavic literary microlanguages have been identified, differing by the level of linguistic polyvalence they have achieved. The sources from which microlanguages derive their language efficiency are usually (at least for a certain time) the respective Slavic macrolanguages (such as Polish, Czech or Slovenian) characterized a longstanding literary tradition and use by distinguished representatives of the nation. Codificators of Slavic microlanguages attempt to increase their prestige in various ways. One of the methods of proving that a nascent literary language is functionally efficient and worthy of international recognition is the translation of world literature classics, including the whole or parts of the Bible. Translators of the Bible are, in a certain sense, following in the footsteps of their predecessors who intellectualized folk dialects or not yet fully effective written languages, transforming them into literary languages. As far as Slavic microlanguages are concerned, the richest collection of biblical writings can be found among the Lusatians, with the entire Protestant version of the Bible having been translated into Lower Sorbian and the entire Protestant and Catholic versions into Upper Serbian. The entire New Testament or the four Gospels have been translated into the following Slavic microlanguages: Cashubian, Prekmurje Slovene, Ruthenian, Banat Bulgarian and West Polesian. In case of the Silesian, Podhale, Carpatho-Rusyn (Lemko) and Eastern Slovakian microlanguages, only portions of the NT are available.
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