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@article{ART002177450},
author={Gwang-Yoon Goh and Younghee Cheri Lee},
title={A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2016},
volume={45},
pages={109-143},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109}

TY - JOUR
AU - Gwang-Yoon Goh
AU - Younghee Cheri Lee
TI - A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2016
VL - 45
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 109
EP - 143
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This article examines distinctive linguistic shifts of translational English in an effort to verify the validity of the translation universals hypotheses, including simplification, explicitation, normalization and leveling-out, which have been most heavily explored to date. A large-scale study involving comparable corpora of translated and non-translated English newspaper texts has been carried out to typify particular linguistic attributes inherent in translated texts. The main findings are as follows. First, by employing the parameters of STTR, top-to-bottom frequency words, and mean values of sentence lengths, the translational instances of simplification have been detected across the translated English newspaper corpora. In contrast, the portion of function words produced contrary results, which in turn suggests that this feature might not constitute an effective test of the hypothesis. Second, it was found that the use of connectives was more salient in original English newspaper texts than translated English texts, being incompatible with the explicitation hypothesis. Third, as an indicator of translational normalization, lexical bundles were found to be more pervasive in translated texts than in non-translated texts, which is expected from and therefore support the normalization hypothesis. Finally, the standard deviations of both STTR and mean sentence lengths turned out to be higher in translated texts, indicating that the translated English newspaper texts were less leveled out within the same corpus group, which is opposed to what the leveling-out hypothesis postulates. Overall, the results suggest that not all four hypotheses may qualify for the label translation universals, or at least that some translational predictors are not feasible enough to evaluate the effectiveness of the translation universals hypotheses.
KW - translation universals;translational English;translated texts;newspaper;English comparable corpora;simplification;explicitation;normalization;leveling-out
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109
ER -

Gwang-Yoon Goh and Younghee Cheri Lee. (2016). A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts. Cross-Cultural Studies, 45, 109-143.

Gwang-Yoon Goh and Younghee Cheri Lee. 2016, "A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.45, pp.109-143. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109

Gwang-Yoon Goh, Younghee Cheri Lee "A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts" Cross-Cultural Studies 45 pp.109-143 (2016) : 109.

Gwang-Yoon Goh, Younghee Cheri Lee. A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts. 2016; 45 109-143. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109

Gwang-Yoon Goh and Younghee Cheri Lee. "A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts" Cross-Cultural Studies 45(2016) : 109-143.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109

Gwang-Yoon Goh; Younghee Cheri Lee. A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts. Cross-Cultural Studies, 45, 109-143. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109

Gwang-Yoon Goh; Younghee Cheri Lee. A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2016; 45 109-143. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109

Gwang-Yoon Goh, Younghee Cheri Lee. A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts. 2016; 45 109-143. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109

Gwang-Yoon Goh and Younghee Cheri Lee. "A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in English Translations of Korean Newspaper Texts" Cross-Cultural Studies 45(2016) : 109-143.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.45..109