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Translation universals of kak structures: a corpus-based approach

Переводческие универсалии структур с союзом как: корпусный подход

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Based on Russian-Chinese corpora, we explored 3 translation universals of Russian ‘kak structures’. We carried out the following analyses: 1. We categorized the structures into 7 groups, with 3 labeled as ‘splittable phrases’ (e.g. so…that) and four, ‘integral phrases’ (e.g. so that). The statistical analysis shows that translation correspondences of these groups differ from one another, which proves the hypothesis that hybridization features of correspondence exist in the translation of these structures; 2. By comparing the frequency of implicitation and explicitation in target texts with that in source texts, we proved both the hypotheses of inter-linguistic implicitation and explicitation. By comparing the frequency of the seven kak structures in the translational corpus with those in the comparable corpus, we proved the hypothesis of intra-linguistic explicitation; 3. We compared the frequency of (zhengru) and (yinwei) (both are typical Chinese equivalents of kak structures) that are placed after the main clause in both the target and the source text, with their frequency in the original texts and proved the foreignization hypothesis.

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Опираясь на русско-китайский параллельный корпус, в данной статье мы рассматриваем 3 переводческие универсалии структур с союзом как. Мы провели следующий анализ: 1. Мы подразделили структуры с союзом как на семь групп: три из них—слитные, а четыре—присоединительные. Статистика показывает, что соответствия переводов конструкций в этих группах отличаются друг от друга. Наш анализ показывает, что соответствия переводов конструкций с как проявляют признак ‘смешанность’. 2. Сравнивая частотность импликации и экспликации в целевых текстах с частотностью в исходных текстах, мы доказываем гипотезу интерлингвистической импликации и экспликации. Сравнивая частотность семи групп структур с союзом как в переводном корпусе с такими же структурами в сопоставимом корпусе, мы доказываем гипотезу интралингвистической экспликации. 3. Сравнивая частотность (чжэнжу) и (иньвэй)—типичные китайские эквиваленты структур c союзом как—, которые стоят после главного предложения в целевом и в исходном текстах, с их частотностью в оригинальных текстах, мы доказываем гипотезу отчуждения.

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Notes

  1. Abbreviations used in this paper: CC—comparable corpus; SL—source language; ST—source text; S-universal—source language universal; TC—translational corpus; TEC—Translational English Corpus; TL—target language; TT—target text; TU—translation universals; T-universal—target language universal.

  2. This reseach is supported by the China National Foundation of Social Sciences (Grant No. 13BYY026).

  3. Translations from Chinese into English—Z.J. and Y.T.

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We are obliged to The China National Foundation for Social Sciences for their support of our project A Parallel Russian-Chinese Corpus-based Translational Study of Academic Texts of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (Award reference: 13BYY026).

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Tao, Y., Jiang, Z. Translation universals of kak structures: a corpus-based approach. Russ Linguist 41, 61–78 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-016-9171-z

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