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A Contextual Approach to Translation Equivalence

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Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

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In this chapter I shall be looking at fictional dialogue in a translation corpus as a case study in a contextual approach to translation equivalence informed by quantitative corpus evidence and sociocultural analysis.

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Acknowledgments

Research funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ) under grants No. 308652/2010-0 and 305129/2013-9 and the State Funding Agency of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) under grants PPM-00087-12 and PPM-00289-14. The author would like to thank researchers Andre Luiz Rosa Teixeira and Thais Guimarães, who collaborated in the annotation and querying of the corpus samples, and Arthur de Melo Sá and Rodrigo Araújo e Castro, who developed and tested the scripts used in R.

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  1. Dipartimento LELIA, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Sara Laviosa

  2. Translation Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Adriana Pagano

  3. Translation Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Hannu Kemppanen

  4. The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Meng Ji

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Laviosa, S., Pagano, A., Kemppanen, H., Ji, M. (2017). A Contextual Approach to Translation Equivalence. In: Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1969-2_4

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