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Testing the validity of translation universals for Brazilian Portuguese by employing comparable corpora and NLP techniques

Resende, Natália orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5248-2457 (2015) Testing the validity of translation universals for Brazilian Portuguese by employing comparable corpora and NLP techniques. In: Gippert, Jost orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2954-340X and Gehrke, Ralf, (eds.) Historical Corpora: Challenges and Perspectives. Korpuslinguistik und Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache - Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language (CLIP), 5 . Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, Germany. ISBN 978-3823369226

Abstract
The present study investigates the lexical features of three of the so-called translation universals, namely, simplification, explicitation and levelling out, for the Brazilian Portuguese language. The aim was to test their validity and to see whether the features change over time. To this end, comparable corpora were used containing 9 pairs of specimens of translated and original Brazilian Portuguese narrative prose (fiction) dating from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The methodology consisted in the employment of NLP techniques and statistical measures as a complementary method of analysis. The results obtained confirmed only the validity of the simplification hypothesis.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Humanities > Linguistics
Humanities > Translating and interpreting
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:Gunter Narr Verlag
Copyright Information:© 2015 Gunter Narr Verlag
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Erasmus Mundus programme
ID Code:24550
Deposited On:12 Jun 2020 13:17 by Natalia Resende . Last Modified 06 Nov 2020 12:07
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