Interference Patterns of the Verb Say in the Narration of English-Polish Literary Translations: A Corpus-Based Study

• Authors: Olejniczak Jędrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper I present a corpus-based study of the interference of the verb say from English source texts into their Polish translations. I compare a sizeable corpus of native Polish fic- tion with corpora of English-Polish fiction translations and argue that the various forms of the verb say commonly used in the English narration influence the choices made in some (albeit not all) of the Polish translations. In order to exemplify my claims I use parallel corpora to show how two different professional translators working with an identical set of source texts were influenced by the narrative verb distribution.

Keywords

EN

narration verb; fiction; translation; parallel corpora

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 25/2
• Pages: 139-150

Contributors

author

Olejniczak Jędrzej

• University of Wrocław

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