Segmentation as a key issue for translation students

Delorme Benites, Alice

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dc.contributor.author	Delorme Benites, Alice	-
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-11T14:30:39Z	-
dc.date.available	2019-02-11T14:30:39Z	-
dc.date.issued	2019	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/15258	-
dc.description.abstract	Research on translation competence and acquisition has evolved dramatically over the past decades, especially thanks to new technologies like screen-recording, keystroke-logging and eye-tracking (Massey/Ehrensberger-Dow, 2011). However, the analysis of the captured processes is usually based on traditional linguistic theories, mostly words-and-rules approaches. The limits of such approaches for translation research are visible through the various efforts made over time to define translation units: traductèmes (Vinay & Darbelnet, 1958) culturèmes (Moles, 1967)… Construction grammar (i.a. Croft, 2001) is a usage-based linguistic model defining a language as an inventory of form-meaning pairs (constructions), including lexicon as well as syntactical aspects: for example, [tree] would be a construction as well as the tense Simple past, both being a set of formal conditions linked to a set of meaning conditions. Moreover, constructions can be combined into complex constructions, reflecting the notion of context in translation. In this perspective, translation can be defined as a form of negotiation: acknowledging the meaning of a construction (within in another, more complex, construction) and searching for one or several constructions to convey (ideally) the same meaning in the target language. The concept of meaning is understood in a very broad dimension, including not only semantic, but also pragmatic, illocutive, referential or conative aspects. This allows new insights into the translation process: more particularly by analyzing captured translation processes of students, construction grammar offers a new possibility of reconstructing the steps that led to incorrect translations. An empirical study of German-French student translation recordings carried out in 2017 brought up the problem of segmentation, that is the identification of constructions as meaning units, as a major factor for failed translations. This contribution will present the main findings of this study as well as the didactic implications of the results for translation teachers.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.rights	Licence according to publishing contract	de_CH
dc.subject	Translation processes	de_CH
dc.subject	Construction grammar	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	418.02: Translationswissenschaft	de_CH
dc.title	Segmentation as a key issue for translation students	de_CH
dc.type	Konferenz: Sonstiges	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	Angewandte Linguistik	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (IUED)	de_CH
zhaw.conference.details	Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 june 2019	de_CH
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	Yes	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	publishedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.publication.review	Peer review (Abstract)	de_CH
zhaw.webfeed	Übersetzungswissenschaft	de_CH
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Delorme Benites, A. (2019). Segmentation as a key issue for translation students. Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June 2019.

Delorme Benites, A. (2019) ‘Segmentation as a key issue for translation students’, in Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 june 2019.

A. Delorme Benites, “Segmentation as a key issue for translation students,” in Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 june 2019, 2019.

DELORME BENITES, Alice, 2019. Segmentation as a key issue for translation students. In: Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 june 2019. Conference presentation. 2019

Delorme Benites, Alice. 2019. “Segmentation as a Key Issue for Translation Students.” Conference presentation. In Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June 2019.

Delorme Benites, Alice. “Segmentation as a Key Issue for Translation Students.” Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June 2019, 2019.