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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7019915
title: DENOMINATIVE VARIATION IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF FAUNA AND FLORA: CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC (A)SYMMETRIES

description: Abstract The present work approaches the denominative variation in Terminology. In this way, it has as object of study the specialized lexical units in Portuguese language formed by at least one of the following color names: black, white, yellow, blue, orange, gray, green, brown, red, pink, violet, purple and indigo. The comparative analysis of this vocabulary among Portuguese, English and Italian languages was conducted considering two sub-areas of Biology: Botany, specifically Angiosperms (Monocotyledons and Eudicotyledons), and Zoology, exclusively Vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals). It will be described in the next pages how common names are created in these tree languages.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7020065
title: SWORN TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS CANDIDATES’ PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS IN COLOMBIA

description: Abstract Sworn Translation and Interpreting as a professional activity in Colombia is carried out by those translators and interpreters that have approved the translation and interpreting examinations offered by two universities according to the law to the public at large. However, there is few social and legal visibility (Quiroz et al, 2015) for these professional community and the group of potential sworn translators and interpreters.. In this article, the results of the application of a sworn translation and interpreting exam will be described by using a quantitative approach. 134 candidates from 2011 to 2016 were studied at the School of Languages examination in Universidad de Antioquia. The overview of results indicates that at least 1 out of 10 candidates approved the test; women tend to have a better outcome, generally speaking; candidates working in the language pair French-Spanish perform better than those from the language pair English-Spanish. In terms of error analysis, the most common error in both sections is the terminological error. Besides, from the point of view of types of tests and competences, it is important to mention that interpreting is the most complex competence to overcome to most candidates.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7020065.v1
title: SWORN TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS CANDIDATES’ PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS IN COLOMBIA

description: Abstract Sworn Translation and Interpreting as a professional activity in Colombia is carried out by those translators and interpreters that have approved the translation and interpreting examinations offered by two universities according to the law to the public at large. However, there is few social and legal visibility (Quiroz et al, 2015) for these professional community and the group of potential sworn translators and interpreters.. In this article, the results of the application of a sworn translation and interpreting exam will be described by using a quantitative approach. 134 candidates from 2011 to 2016 were studied at the School of Languages examination in Universidad de Antioquia. The overview of results indicates that at least 1 out of 10 candidates approved the test; women tend to have a better outcome, generally speaking; candidates working in the language pair French-Spanish perform better than those from the language pair English-Spanish. In terms of error analysis, the most common error in both sections is the terminological error. Besides, from the point of view of types of tests and competences, it is important to mention that interpreting is the most complex competence to overcome to most candidates.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7020620
title: MEASURING PROGRESS IN READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS IN FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR TRANSLATORS. AN ASSESSMENT-BASED EXPERIENCE

description: Abstract In this article we will present the first results of foreign-language acquisition verification tests performed by students of the Translation and Interpreting degree programme taught at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), which provide data on the level of their reading comprehension skills in their first and second foreign languages. The tests are chiefly intended to check whether pre-established language levels for the subjects that are part of the syllabus match those actually attained by students upon completion of the subjects in question. We will describe the test process, including the characteristics of the tests and how they are carried out, the characteristics of the sample studied, the instrument used, the results obtained and the trends observed. The ultimate purpose of the tests is to improve the training students receive, as the results obtained will serve as a basis for changing or correcting the different subjects’ initial and final reading comprehension skill levels and/or the approach taken by teaching staff, thus enabling us to better define progress in the acquisition of foreign-language reading comprehension skills.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7020620.v1
title: MEASURING PROGRESS IN READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS IN FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR TRANSLATORS. AN ASSESSMENT-BASED EXPERIENCE

description: Abstract In this article we will present the first results of foreign-language acquisition verification tests performed by students of the Translation and Interpreting degree programme taught at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), which provide data on the level of their reading comprehension skills in their first and second foreign languages. The tests are chiefly intended to check whether pre-established language levels for the subjects that are part of the syllabus match those actually attained by students upon completion of the subjects in question. We will describe the test process, including the characteristics of the tests and how they are carried out, the characteristics of the sample studied, the instrument used, the results obtained and the trends observed. The ultimate purpose of the tests is to improve the training students receive, as the results obtained will serve as a basis for changing or correcting the different subjects’ initial and final reading comprehension skill levels and/or the approach taken by teaching staff, thus enabling us to better define progress in the acquisition of foreign-language reading comprehension skills.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710950
title: TRANSLATING BOUMKŒUR, BY RACHID DJAÏDANI, INTO BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAIN CHALLANGES

description: Abstract This article is based on a research project entitled “Boumkœur, de Rachid Djaïdani: estudo e tradução para o português do Brasil” (2017) [“Analyzing and translating Boumkœur, by Rachid Djaïdani, into Brazilian Portuguese”]. For this project, conducted during a degree in Modern Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), I tried to offer an analysis and a translation of Djaïdani’s novel. The scope of this article is however considerably more limited insofar as I present a partial overview of the translation of three excerpts from Boumkœur, which are representative of issues concerning the translation of cultural marks, specific social dialects and poetic texts. In this analytical and translational work I opted for the practice of an “ethics of difference” (VENUTI, 2002) that aims at reconciling the concepts of “foreignization” and “domestication” (VENUTI, 2008).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710950.v1
title: TRANSLATING BOUMKŒUR, BY RACHID DJAÏDANI, INTO BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAIN CHALLANGES

description: Abstract This article is based on a research project entitled “Boumkœur, de Rachid Djaïdani: estudo e tradução para o português do Brasil” (2017) [“Analyzing and translating Boumkœur, by Rachid Djaïdani, into Brazilian Portuguese”]. For this project, conducted during a degree in Modern Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), I tried to offer an analysis and a translation of Djaïdani’s novel. The scope of this article is however considerably more limited insofar as I present a partial overview of the translation of three excerpts from Boumkœur, which are representative of issues concerning the translation of cultural marks, specific social dialects and poetic texts. In this analytical and translational work I opted for the practice of an “ethics of difference” (VENUTI, 2002) that aims at reconciling the concepts of “foreignization” and “domestication” (VENUTI, 2008).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710830.v1
title: TRANSLATION AND SCIENCE IN THE LUSOBRAZILIAN ENLIGHTENMENT: INTERTEXTUALITY IN EPIGRAPHS AND MOTTOES

description: Abstract Researchers working with translation history have been benefiting from information stemming from editorial paratexts, and these elements have also become an acceptable tool for science historians. For both groups of researchers, crucial information concerning intellectual and cultural affiliations can be unveiled by paratexts, taken as evidence of a written work’s materiality in a given point in time and space, as well as of the intervention of authors, translators and editors in the way such work is to be interpreted. The revealing role of paratextual elements is even more prominent if one is interested in intertextual connections, which is the case with this paper. Here focus is given to epigraphs and mottoes, in a discussion based on the content of title pages of translations produced within the Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment. Published at the turn of the 18th century in Lisbon and under the supervision of Brazilian-born Friar José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, these translation aimed at the progress of the Portuguese Kingdom through the dissemination of “useful science.” Their epigraphs and mottoes are relevant material for translation and science historians alike, as they allow for a deeper understanding of cultural networks decisive to the dissemination of enlightened ideas in Portuguese language.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710830
title: TRANSLATION AND SCIENCE IN THE LUSOBRAZILIAN ENLIGHTENMENT: INTERTEXTUALITY IN EPIGRAPHS AND MOTTOES

description: Abstract Researchers working with translation history have been benefiting from information stemming from editorial paratexts, and these elements have also become an acceptable tool for science historians. For both groups of researchers, crucial information concerning intellectual and cultural affiliations can be unveiled by paratexts, taken as evidence of a written work’s materiality in a given point in time and space, as well as of the intervention of authors, translators and editors in the way such work is to be interpreted. The revealing role of paratextual elements is even more prominent if one is interested in intertextual connections, which is the case with this paper. Here focus is given to epigraphs and mottoes, in a discussion based on the content of title pages of translations produced within the Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment. Published at the turn of the 18th century in Lisbon and under the supervision of Brazilian-born Friar José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, these translation aimed at the progress of the Portuguese Kingdom through the dissemination of “useful science.” Their epigraphs and mottoes are relevant material for translation and science historians alike, as they allow for a deeper understanding of cultural networks decisive to the dissemination of enlightened ideas in Portuguese language.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710890.v1
title: OBITUARIES IN TRANSLATION: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY

description: Abstract Sooner or later death will affect everyone, everywhere. However, this harsh reality is faced differently across cultures. Obituaries can help unveil some of those differences and their impact on translation. Using corpus linguistics as methodology, we aim to investigate if - and to what extent - a comparable American English-Brazilian Portuguese corpus of obituaries can help with the task of raising students’ awareness of cultural peculiarities encountered in the same genre written in different languages and their consequences for equivalence retrieval. In order to accomplish our task, we selected texts published in Brazilian and NorthAmerican newspapers in 2015 and 2017. Despite addressing an everyday subject, obituaries are little explored academically. Nevertheless, this neglect is not proportional across countries, but it results from the popularity enjoyed by the genre. While obituaries are widely read in the United States, in Brazil they are rare, almost solely dedicated to famous deceased. Qualitative and quantitative analyses showed that terminology lacks in Portuguese due to cultural differences regarding the theme and that the lack of contact with the genre, in addition to ritual differences encountered in both countries/cultures, can help explain difficulties faced by Brazilian undergraduate students of Translation to render NorthAmerican obituaries into Portuguese.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710890
title: OBITUARIES IN TRANSLATION: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY

description: Abstract Sooner or later death will affect everyone, everywhere. However, this harsh reality is faced differently across cultures. Obituaries can help unveil some of those differences and their impact on translation. Using corpus linguistics as methodology, we aim to investigate if - and to what extent - a comparable American English-Brazilian Portuguese corpus of obituaries can help with the task of raising students’ awareness of cultural peculiarities encountered in the same genre written in different languages and their consequences for equivalence retrieval. In order to accomplish our task, we selected texts published in Brazilian and NorthAmerican newspapers in 2015 and 2017. Despite addressing an everyday subject, obituaries are little explored academically. Nevertheless, this neglect is not proportional across countries, but it results from the popularity enjoyed by the genre. While obituaries are widely read in the United States, in Brazil they are rare, almost solely dedicated to famous deceased. Qualitative and quantitative analyses showed that terminology lacks in Portuguese due to cultural differences regarding the theme and that the lack of contact with the genre, in addition to ritual differences encountered in both countries/cultures, can help explain difficulties faced by Brazilian undergraduate students of Translation to render NorthAmerican obituaries into Portuguese.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7711019
title: SEMANTIC VARIATIONS OF APPRAISAL IN PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN RE-INSTANTIATIONS OF THINGS FALL APART AND ARROW OF GOD

description: Abstract This article expands the investigation in Dias (2018), on semantic variations of appraisal in Brazilian translations of two of Chinua Achebe’s novels, Things Fall Apart (1994[1959]) and Arrow of God (1969[1964]), to the Portuguese translations of these texts. It aims at identifying semantic variations of appraisal in the retranslations as well as testing the retranslation hypothesis originated in Berman (1990). According to theoretical assumptions in this text, the translation of a literary text would be an “incomplete” act that could only achieve completion through retranslations. Previous works on translation of literary texts do not usually investigate appraisal from a discourse-semantics perspective, disregarding it in unfolding texts and using a corpus analysis methodology. Dias (2018) draws on a discourse-semantics model to study Brazilian translations as re-instantiations. This work focuses on excerpts of the Portuguese reinstantiations Tudo se desmorona (2008), from Things Fall Apart, and A flecha de Deus (1979), from Arrow of God. The study uses appraisal analysis as a method to investigate patterns of evaluative configurations of attitude, engagement and graduation in the excerpts studied. The findings, compared to those in Dias (2018), suggest there are semantic variations between the pairs of re-instantiations regarding the appraisal mode, the different coupling and commitment of values, and non-re-instantiations or the instantiation of new values. These results suggest the two reinstantiations are different types of paraphrases of the source text. They also confirm the retranslation hypothesis.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710827
title: ESP AND THE SHARED EXPERTISE: CONVERGENCES WITH TRANSLATION AND TERMINOLOGY

description: Abstract This paper critically addresses aspects related to the teaching of the English language in specialized texts in the scope of English for Specific Purposes. It problematizes this approach within the context of language courses - focusing on the reading competence - EAP modality (STREVENS, 1977; HYLAND, 2006). It establishes theoretical convergences with the fields of Translation and Terminology. The perspective adopted aims to contribute to the development of the agents involved and to the improvement of pedagogical practice, broadening new paths and theoretical methodological possibilities. The motivation for this study emerges from the growing and expressive pursuit of reading competence enhancement in texts with scientific content in foreign languages by professionals and academics from different domains. This demand is characterized by well-defined professional targets associated to mechanisms of acceleration of results stemming from the exogenous pressure for qualification. It is intended to describe the peculiarities of the teaching context where these reflections emerge from and connect them to some methodological procedures employed in solving textual exploratory difficulties supported by translation strategies and terminological knowledge.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710827.v1
title: ESP AND THE SHARED EXPERTISE: CONVERGENCES WITH TRANSLATION AND TERMINOLOGY

description: Abstract This paper critically addresses aspects related to the teaching of the English language in specialized texts in the scope of English for Specific Purposes. It problematizes this approach within the context of language courses - focusing on the reading competence - EAP modality (STREVENS, 1977; HYLAND, 2006). It establishes theoretical convergences with the fields of Translation and Terminology. The perspective adopted aims to contribute to the development of the agents involved and to the improvement of pedagogical practice, broadening new paths and theoretical methodological possibilities. The motivation for this study emerges from the growing and expressive pursuit of reading competence enhancement in texts with scientific content in foreign languages by professionals and academics from different domains. This demand is characterized by well-defined professional targets associated to mechanisms of acceleration of results stemming from the exogenous pressure for qualification. It is intended to describe the peculiarities of the teaching context where these reflections emerge from and connect them to some methodological procedures employed in solving textual exploratory difficulties supported by translation strategies and terminological knowledge.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710758.v1
title: THE TRANSLATION OF THE MODAL PARTICLE WOHL INTO PORTUGUESE: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROCESSING EFFORT OF BRAZILIANS AND GERMANS PARTICIPANTS

description: Abstract Using the Relevance Theory as guideline we investigate the processing effort of the modal particle (MP) wohl in the linguistic pair german/portuguese in post-editing tasks. As experimental background, we use three distinct research tools: the program Translog-II; the eyetracker Tobii T60; retrospective reports (free and guided). Sixteen participants, eight Brazilian and eight German, post-edited to Portuguese three machine translation inputs in German containing the MP wohl in three different positions related to the same sentence. The results here presented tend to confirm the hypothesis by GUTT (1998) and the study on processing analysis performed by ALVES (2007), which show that the relation between effort and effect does not obey a linear relation among themselves. Therefore, the analysis of how modal particles are processed in post-editing tasks tends to show that different cognitive environments imply distinct allocation of the minimum cognitive effort needed to achieve a relevant contextual effect.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7710758
title: THE TRANSLATION OF THE MODAL PARTICLE WOHL INTO PORTUGUESE: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROCESSING EFFORT OF BRAZILIANS AND GERMANS PARTICIPANTS

description: Abstract Using the Relevance Theory as guideline we investigate the processing effort of the modal particle (MP) wohl in the linguistic pair german/portuguese in post-editing tasks. As experimental background, we use three distinct research tools: the program Translog-II; the eyetracker Tobii T60; retrospective reports (free and guided). Sixteen participants, eight Brazilian and eight German, post-edited to Portuguese three machine translation inputs in German containing the MP wohl in three different positions related to the same sentence. The results here presented tend to confirm the hypothesis by GUTT (1998) and the study on processing analysis performed by ALVES (2007), which show that the relation between effort and effect does not obey a linear relation among themselves. Therefore, the analysis of how modal particles are processed in post-editing tasks tends to show that different cognitive environments imply distinct allocation of the minimum cognitive effort needed to achieve a relevant contextual effect.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8195003.v1
title: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR RETRANSLATION RESEARCH: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RETRANSLATIONS IN THE FINNISH LITERARY SYSTEM

description: Abstract In this article, we discuss the archaeological phase of our research into retranslating in the Finnish literary system. We address the issue from the point of view of the past and future development on retranslation research, focusing on methodology. We argue that for our understanding of the phenomenon to advance, the traditional case study orientation of retranslation research needs to be complemented with other, macro level approaches. We discuss what kinds of research questions our archaeological data allowed us to generate, how collecting bibliographical information of a larger set of translations allowed us to place individual case studies within the bigger picture, and how it allowed us to compare our findings to similar, macro level research done by other scholars. The next step for retranslation research will, we believe, consist of studies asking new questions on the basis of such macro level empirical evidence (tested on new, targeted data sets or case studies) and comparisons between these studies completed in different cultural, historical and literary contexts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8195003
title: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR RETRANSLATION RESEARCH: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RETRANSLATIONS IN THE FINNISH LITERARY SYSTEM

description: Abstract In this article, we discuss the archaeological phase of our research into retranslating in the Finnish literary system. We address the issue from the point of view of the past and future development on retranslation research, focusing on methodology. We argue that for our understanding of the phenomenon to advance, the traditional case study orientation of retranslation research needs to be complemented with other, macro level approaches. We discuss what kinds of research questions our archaeological data allowed us to generate, how collecting bibliographical information of a larger set of translations allowed us to place individual case studies within the bigger picture, and how it allowed us to compare our findings to similar, macro level research done by other scholars. The next step for retranslation research will, we believe, consist of studies asking new questions on the basis of such macro level empirical evidence (tested on new, targeted data sets or case studies) and comparisons between these studies completed in different cultural, historical and literary contexts.