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- Title
Understanding translation as a site of language contact.
- Authors
Malamatidou, Sofia
- Abstract
This paper begins by acknowledging translation as an important site of language contact and its primary aim is to reinterpret a theoretical framework from the field of language contact, namely Johanson's Code-Copying Framework (1993, 1999, 2002a), with translation in mind. The framework is then systematically applied to empirical data and a corpus-based study is conducted, using the translation of popular science articles from English into Greek as a case in point, and in particular examining any change in the frequency of passive voice reporting verbs. The discussion and corpus analysis suggest that the Code-Copying Framework offers a new vantage point for understanding translation as facilitating linguistic development in the target language, and that translation studies can benefit from adopting it as a descriptive mechanism when comparing instances of contact through translation across languages.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE contact; TRANSLATING of English language; GREEK language; CORPORA; PASSIVE voice; ENGLISH language -- Verb
- Publication
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
0924-1884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/target.28.3.03mal