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Using a Parallel Corpus to Study the Translation of Personal Pronouns

 | Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan |
Published online: 1 October 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.10.2.09wen
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Cette recherche actuelle essaie d’utiliser un corpus parallel pour étudier le phenomène que le pourcentage de pronoms personnels est relativement plus élevé dans le texte chinois traduit que non-traduit. Il y a deux hypothèses pour expliquer cette phenomème. La première est l’ingérence du texte de source. Le chinois est un language du « pro-drop », les pronoms, que ce soient sujets ou objets, peut etre négliges dans des proposition définitives ou dans d’autre phrases. En anglais, on ne peut pas négliger un sujet ou un object d’une propositions définitives. On pense que le subcorpus traduit du texte de source anglais a eu quelque influences sur leur traductions. La seconde hypothèse est la stradégie d’explicationadoptée par les traducteurs. Hu Xianyao(2006) a remarquéle même phenomène dans sa recherche, mais il réclame que le pourcentage plus élevé de pronoms dans les textes traduits est une manifestation d’explicitation. Ce projet y compris un subcorpus de textes de source englais a former un parallel corpus pour mesurer le pourcentage de différents types de pronom personels dans the textes traduit et non-traduits. L’analyse de resultats montre que c’est au niveau d’explicitation et de language du « pro-drop ».
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