scholarly journals Pym, Anthony, Shlesinger, Miriam and Simeoni, Daniel, eds (2008): Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 417 p.

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Jianzhong
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

Descriptive translation studies: uma revisão crítica

Gragoatá ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Amaral Peixoto Martins
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

O objetivo deste artigo e, em um primeiro momento, fazer uma breve revisão das principais contribuições do modelo teórico dos Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS), desenvolvido em meados dos anos 70 por um grupo de estudiosos de Israel e dos Países Baixos preocupados com a estudo da literatura traduzida, para em seguida apontar alguns problemas e lacunas teóricas que não parecem ter sido satisfatoriamente resolvidos em posteriores refinamentos da teoria. A abordagem descritivista fundamenta-se nos seguintes pressupostos: (i) uma visão da literatura como um sistema dinâmico e complexo; (ii) a convicção de que deve haver uma interação permanente entre modelos teóricos e estudos de caso; (iii) uma abordagem da tradução literária de caráter descritivo (portanto, não normativa) e voltada para a texto-alvo, além de funcional e sistêmica; e (iv) um interesse pelas normas e coerções que governam a produção e a recepção de traduções, pela relação entre a tradução e outros tipos de reescritura e pelo lugar e função da literatura traduzida tanto num determinado sistema literário quanto na interação entre literaturas. Nos últimos vinte e cinco anos, a abordagem descritivista vem informando inúmeros estudos sabre o sistema de literatura traduzida de inúmeras culturas, principalmente europeias, mas ainda apresenta alguns problemas que precisam ser melhor trabalhados no âmbito da teoria. Entre estes, destacamos a risco de incorrer num “descritivismo” puro e simples, desprovido de uma elaboração crítica, e a relativa despreocupação em explicitar os fundamentos epistemológicos da teoria e em (re)definir conceitos importantes.

scholarly journals Inquiries on Cultural Markers in Translation

Tradterm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Francis Henrik Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Cultural Markers ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

In descriptive translation studies, the identification of cultural markers brings with it certain theoretical and methodological difficulties: the very conceptualization of the cultural marker; its subcategories, both linguistic and extra-linguistic; the appropriate procedures to carry out its identification. The present essay seeks to map the extent of these difficulties and make a number of proposals, yet to be tested in descriptive practice.

scholarly journals Textual Criticism, Translation Studies, and Symmachus’s Version in the Book of Job

Textus ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Alison Salvesen
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Variant Reading ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

Abstract The late second century CE translator/reviser Symmachus took a very different approach to the versions of his predecessor Aquila. His renderings do not appear to have survived in Jewish circles but were much admired by early Christian scholars, thanks to their preservation in Origen’s Hexapla. However, for textual critics of the Hebrew Bible Symmachus’ free approach has limited his value since his readings cannot be easily retroverted, unlike those of Aquila or Theodotion. In the case of the book of Job, although Symmachus’ “transformations” (to use a term from Descriptive Translation Studies) differ in nature from the freedoms observed in OG Job, while rejecting the narrow isomorphism of Aquila and Theodotion he nevertheless adheres quite closely to his Hebrew Vorlage. This offers the possibility of identifying elements significant for textual criticism in his rendering, including variant reading traditions or a different consonantal text.

The subtitling of offensive and taboo language into Spanish of Inglourious Basterds

Babel ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Javier Ávila-Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Translational Strategies ◽  
Strategy Design ◽  
The Way

The transfer of offensive and taboo language in subtitling may position translators’ choices in a challenging and controversial situation, given the effect that such terms can cause on the audience (Díaz Cintas 2001a). Nowadays, it seems that dealing with this type of language starts to gain more attention in academic circles, as it belongs to colloquial language within a low register, and as such we do speak in diverse manners depending on the context we are in. This paper delves into the way offensive and taboo language has been subtitled into European Spanish. In order to conduct this study, the subtitling of the DVD version of Quentin Tarantino’s multilingual film Inglourious Basterds (2009) has been described and analyzed, resorting to a multi-strategy design (Robson 2011) which combines quantitative with qualitative data, under the umbrella of the descriptive translation studies paradigm. Accordingly, the main purpose of this analysis is to determine any regularities in the way in which offensive and taboo language has been dealt with in this particular case study, considering the technological restrictions of subtitling as well as the translational strategies employed. Thus, this study aims to shed some light on the way this type of language has been transferred on the screen.

Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond

Language ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Gladys E. Saunders ◽  
Gideon Toury
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

scholarly journals Traduire l’Ekphrasis. Le cas des Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire en Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Elnaz Habibifar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
General Description ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Fleurs Du Mal

Cultural exchanges between Iran and France started over three centuries ago. In spite of the strong relationship between the two countries, some books such as Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) went unnoticed in Iranian society. In addition to the literary value of the book, we propose to study ekphrasis in Baudelaire’s poems and its translation into Persian. Its meaning being that of a general description an artwork (imaginary or real), the term ekphrasis belongs to an interdisciplinary field of literature and art where the textual challenges we face may vary from one to another. To narrow down our study, we will focus on four chosen poems that have a minimum of two published translations in Persian, thus allowing the opportunity for a comparative study. These chosen poems, “La Beauté”, “L’Invitation au voyage”, “Les Plaintes d’un Icare” and “Femmes damnées” (“Delphine et Hippolyte”) as well as our corpus translation in Persian, are being studied and analysed through Descriptive Translation Studies. The analysis focuses on the ekphrastic aspect of these poems, their translations into Persian through syntactic and semantic levels and the influence of culture and society on the translation.

scholarly journals “ENTSYKLOPEDIIA PEREKLADOZNAVSTVA” IN UKRAINIAN: A REVIEW AND HISTORICAL ASPECT OF ITS PUBLICATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (193) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Bilous ◽  
◽  
Olha Bilous ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Historical Aspect ◽  
The University

In late 2020 Ukrainian translation studies faced an extraordinary event when two volumes of “Entsyklopediia perekladoznavstva” were published. This is a Ukrainian translation from the “Handbook of Translation Studies” written in English which is one of the most outstanding works in theory of translation globally. Originally it was published in four volumes by John Benjamins Publishing Company, a leading company which works in the market of translation books, and edited by Franco-Belgian translation scholar Yves Gambier who now works at the University of Turku (Finland) and Luc van Doorslaer, Chair Professor of Translation Studies at University of Tartu (Estonia).

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