Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style: Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9780367727420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

Roy Youdale

Opis

This book argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and translation of literary style. Based on a combination of traditional close reading and 'distant' reading, this is key reading for translators, postgraduate students and scholars of literary translation, corpus linguistics, corpus stylistics and narratology.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1. Using computers in literary translation; Chapter 2. Analysing the source text: structure and style; Chapter 3. CDR, translation theory and the attempt to create an ‘English Benedetti'; Chapter 4. Applying the methodology (Part 1): the translation of culture; Chapter 5. Applying the methodology (Part 2): the translation of punctuation; Chapter 6. Applying the methodology (Part 3): comparing source text and draft translation; Chapter 7. Applying the methodology (Part 4): the auto-analysis of translator style; Chapter 8. Conclusions: Assessing the potential of the methodology; References; Appendix 1. Research data; Appendix 2. Translations used for chapter 7; Index

O autorze

Roy Youdale is a Research Associate in Translation Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, where he completed his PhD in 2017. He is researching the use of corpus linguistics, text visualisation and CAT tools in literary translation and has presented his work at the universities of East Anglia, Manchester and Swansea, and the Link Campus University in Rome. He is also a literary translator from Spanish and has had short story translations accepted for publication in the US and UK.