Triangulating text relationship in literary retranslation: The Great Gatsby in Chinese.
In the scenario of literary retranslation, the presence of a previous translation necessarily has influence on retranslators. Systemic analyses of relevant features are needed to reveal the potential influence that an earlier translation exerts on a later one and the strategies the latter takes as a...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 849 - 864 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=179512344&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 179512344 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 2055768X JEO9 jtl: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities issn: 2055768X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2024 vid: 39 iid: 3 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 179512344 10.1093/llc/fqae039 ppf: 849 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2MB tig: atl: Triangulating text relationship in literary retranslation: The Great Gatsby in Chinese. aug: au: Ding, Guoqi affil: School of Foreign Languages, Huzhou University , Huzhou, China su: Principal components analysis Support vector machines Story plots Sentiment analysis Vocabulary sug: subj: Principal components analysis Support vector machines Story plots Sentiment analysis Vocabulary keyword: linguistic features retranslation sentiment text distance ab: In the scenario of literary retranslation, the presence of a previous translation necessarily has influence on retranslators. Systemic analyses of relevant features are needed to reveal the potential influence that an earlier translation exerts on a later one and the strategies the latter takes as a response. Starting with the assumption that a distinctive translation can be identified with a set of consistent features, this study examines the relationship between translations with The Great Gatsby and its nine Chinese versions as a case in point, with a novel method of corpus triangulation. For the discovery of the most effective set of distinctive features, a multi-class Support Vector Machine algorithm is applied on twenty-one linguistic features related to vocabulary, grammar, and textuality for the classification of samples from the nine versions. A principal components analysis then follows to verify the multi-dimensionality of a translation and the intertwinement of its features. Finally, further aided with a sentiment analysis, we examine the faithfulness of translations and their distances from each other. Through cross-validation, this study finds: (1) With the shared source text, different translations show a certain, and in some pairs striking, degree of resemblance both in terms of linguistic features and in the sentiment-based narrative plot; (2) the dependency relation between retranslations and earlier ones is usually manifested in measurable linguistic features; (3) linguistic features of a text are normally combined in a complicated manner and features of different categories inextricably intertwined; (4) the trend of proximity proposed by the Retranslation Hypothesis is discernible in the retranslations; and (5) cross-validation between the examination of linguistic features and sentiment analysis proves to be an effective approach for measuring the distance between translations and the closeness of a translation to the original. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 EADH: The European Association for Digital Humanities. item: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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