VL7 Flashcards

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Translation

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Mediation between two languages, always been part of human history

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Translation linguistic context

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  • grammatical/lexical contrasts between source (SL) and target language (TL)
  • typological distance between SL and TL
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3
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Cultural context translation

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  • precarious/priviledged = bias
  • translation between languages of unequal global reach/status = power hierarchies
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4
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New technological frontiers translation

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  • people depend on machine translators
  • machines calculate statistical likelihood of elements appearing next to each other
  • no sense of meaning/grammar, just stochastic
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5
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Simplification

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Lower lexical density and lower type/token ratios

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Explication

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More explicit coherence relations, less pronominal reference, fewer general nouns
= making something clear (more details/explanations)

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7
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Normalisation

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Bring elements in line with more „nominal“ syntax of German

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8
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convergence

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Less stylistic variability and creativity

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