Winters, Marion ORCID: 0000-0003-4049-3156 and Kenny, Dorothy ORCID: 0000-0002-4793-9256 (2023) Mark my keywords: a translator-specific exploration of style in literary machine translation. In: Rothwell, Andrew, Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and Youdale, Roy ORCID: 0000-0001-5819-4774, (eds.) Computer-Assisted Literary Translation. Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies . Routledge (Taylor & Francis), New York, pp. 69-87. ISBN 9781032413006
Abstract
This chapter presents a keyword analysis of a novel post-edited by the internationally acclaimed translator Hans-Christian Oeser. The novel, Christopher Isherwood's The World in the Evening, was first machine-translated into German using DeepL and then post-edited by Oeser. The analysis identifies words that are key in Oeser's post-edited text compared to the machine-translated version. It goes on to investigate whether these keywords are characteristic of Oeser's broader translation work and of German literary fiction in general. The chapter concludes that specific edits Oeser makes can be construed as an assertion of his translatorial style and hence constitute an instance of downstream translator-specific personalisation in literary machine translation.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating Humanities > German language Humanities > Literature Humanities > Translating and interpreting |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) |
Publisher: | Routledge (Taylor & Francis) |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003357391 |
Copyright Information: | © 2024 The Authors. |
ID Code: | 29209 |
Deposited On: | 30 Nov 2023 15:58 by Dorothy Kenny . Last Modified 30 Nov 2023 15:58 |
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