LINGUIST List 22.4563
Tue Nov 15 2011
Diss: Translation/German: Becher: 'Explicitation and Implicitation ...'
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Explicitation and Implicitation in Translation: A corpus-based study of English-German and German-English translations of business texts
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Date: 10-Nov-2011
From: Viktor Becher <viktor.becheruni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Explicitation and Implicitation in Translation: A corpus-based study of English-German and German-English translations of business texts
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Institution: University of Hamburg
Program: Applied Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2011
Author: Viktor Becher
Dissertation Title: Explicitation and Implicitation in Translation: A corpus-based study of English-German and German-English translations of business texts
Dissertation URL: http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2011/5321/
Linguistic Field(s):
Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
German (deu)
Dissertation Director:
Kristin Bührig
Juliane House
Dissertation Abstract:
The thesis presents a study of explicitation and implicitation intranslation. Explicitating and implicitating shifts were manuallyidentified in a corpus of English and German business texts and theirtranslations in both directions. Shifts were classified according to formaland functional criteria. The study departed from the observation thatexplicitations in one translation direction are often not 'counterbalanced'by implicitations in the other direction (cf. Klaudy's AsymmetryHypothesis). The main aim of the study was to specify the conditions underwhich this state of 'explicitational asymmetry' can be observed. Unlikemost other studies of explicitation in translation, the present study didnot depart from the assumption of a 'translation-inherent', universalprocess of explicitation (cf. Blum-Kulka's Explicitation Hypothesis).Rather, the prediction underlying the study was that every instance ofexplicitation (and implicitation) can be explained as a result oflexicogrammatical and/or pragmatic factors. This prediction was essentiallyconfirmed by the study's findings. Thorough qualitative analysis has madeit possible to compile a list of factors that regularly lead translators toexplicitate or implicitate. The factors explain why implicitations areoften outnumbered by the corresponding explicitations.
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