The (in)visibility of the literary human translator’s work in the age of AI is discussed, and the interferences produced by machines are tapped into to tap into the impact on the translation process and product.
Light is shed on the process-oriented nature of translation strategies and empirical evidence for integrating technological tools into translation pedagogy is offered.
Xuefeng Wu, Chenchen Liu· English Language Teaching· 0 citations
— At the background of the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence technology, this paper takes the two English versions of the translation of The Garlic Ballads as the research object, and under the guidance of cognitive translation theory, explores the differences between human and machine translation in metaphorical expression. Through comparative analysis of the two English versions of the translation, it is found that machine translation excels in efficiency and uniformity of terminology, but has limitations in decoding the cultural connotations of metaphors; human translation, on the other hand, can ensure the critical and aesthetic value of metaphors based on in-depth understanding and creative transformation. This study points out that Artificial Intelligence technology can improve efficiency in the initial draft generation stage, while human translation focuses more on the expression of deep semantics and literary artistry, forming a collaborative model of “AI for efficiency and human for quality”. This paper proposes human-machine collaboration strategy and the follow-up development directions of related research, so as to help the translation field achieve balanced development of efficiency and quality in the wave of technological progress.
Lehman Ma· International Journal of Lan...· 0 citations
This pilot study examines how the English adverb actually is rendered in Slovak translation, drawing on a corpus of literary texts and their translations. As a multifunctional item, actually performs a range of syntactic and pragmatic functions in context, most notably those of emphasizer and disjunct. The analysis draws on three Slovak translations of works by the same English-speaking author. Although each translator worked on a different set of books, the corpus still makes it possible to compare translation strategies within a relatively consistent authorial style and to observe how individual translators deal with the same multifunctional source item. The study combines qualitative functional analysis with quantitative observations in order to identify recurrent Slovak renderings of actually, including lexical substitution, structural reformulation, attenuation, and omission. The findings suggest that translation difficulty arises not from the lack of Slovak expressive resources, but from differences between English and Slovak in the grammatical encoding of discourse-related meaning. In particular, functions expressed in English through sentence adverbials do not always correspond to a single formal category in Slovak, which increases the likelihood of functional shift or translation loss. The study contributes to translation studies and contrastive linguistics by showing how the pragmatic contribution of a frequent multifunctional item may be preserved, reinterpreted, weakened, or omitted in translation, and how these outcomes vary across translators.
Zuzana Knižková· Studies About Languages· 0 citations
The results show that LLMs and Google Translate consistently outperform specialized MT systems in terms of fluency, meaning preservation, and lexical-thematic alignment.
Beatriz Ribeiro Borges, P. H. R. Gabriel, E. Faria· International Journal of Dat...· 0 citations
Domestication and foreignization are two common strategies for translators to deal with cultural differences. Based on Berman’s translation ethics and twelve deformations, this paper takes Bai Juyi’s the Everlasting Regret (selected sentences) as the object of study, adopts close reading and comparative analysis, and selects the English versions of Xu Yuanchong, Xu Zhongjie and W. J. B. Fletcher for comparative analysis, focusing on the different degrees of domestication and foreignization in the aspects of word choice, syntax, rhetorical organization, cultural transmission and so on, as well as the effects caused by these differences. The study found that in the English translation of classical Chinese poetry, in addition to the necessary domestication adjustment, the translator should retain the cultural background and aesthetic logic of the original poem as much as possible, so that the translation can achieve the purpose of conveying the cultural nature of this special literary genre. Therefore, in the English translation, foreignization enjoys ethical priority.
Chenfan Wang· English Language Teaching an...· 0 citations
Poetry translation, which requires consistency in both artistic and semantic terms, has been one of the most controversial areas of translation studies, creating various obstacles to theoretical and practical discussions. While translation studies in the 1950s and 1960s were more linguistically oriented and focused on the language level, a cultural approach came to the forefront in the 1970s. Lawrence Venuti’s strategies of “domestication” and “foreignization” in translation are notable examples of this approach. Analyzing the translations produced by a Turkish translator (S. Behlül Toygar) and native English-speaking translator (Roger Finch), this study aims to determine which translation technique each translator primarily uses and the extent to which their translational decisions reflect domestication or foreignization tendencies. Moreover, the study comparatively examines how the translators dealt with the lexical, syntactic, semantic, phonological, and graphological elements of the source text. By comparing these linguistic and stylistic categories, the study identifies the parallels and discrepancies between the two translations, assesses how well they capture the aesthetic and semantic elements of the original poem, and highlights the gains, losses, and changes in poetic form and meaning in the translation from Turkish to English. It was concluded that poetry translation often requires a compromise between meaning, form, and culture, rather than achieving complete equivalence, and that Toygar and Finch, instead of copying Beyatlı’s poem “Flight,” recreated it within new linguistic and cultural contexts.
Senem Üstün Kaya· Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergi...· 0 citations
