Understanding translation as a site of language contact: The potential of the Code-Copying Framework as a descriptive mechanism in translation studies

• Autores: Sofia Malamatidou
• Localización: Target: International journal of translation studies, ISSN 0924-1884, Vol. 28, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 399-423
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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