Burrowing into translation : character idiolects in Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy and its two English translations

doi:10.1093/llc/fqh051

Burrowing into translation : character idiolects in ...

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title:	Burrowing into translation : character idiolects in Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy and its two English translations
author:	Rybicki Jan
Journal title:	Literary and Linguistic Computing
volume:	21
issue:	1
date of publication:	2006
pages:	91-103
ISSN:	0268-1145
eISSN:	1477-4615
DOI:	10.1093/llc/fqh051
URL:	http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/91.abstract
date accessed:	2016-02-23
language:	English
Journal language:	English
abstract in other languages:	Character idiolects in Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy were studied in the original and in two English translations by Jeremiah Curtin and W. S. Kuniczak. The method used was Burrows's technique of multivariate analysis of correlation matrices of relative frequencies of the most frequent words in the dialogue. The aim of the study was to verify the intuitions of traditional interpretations, to acquire a more comprehensive view of the phenomenon, and to obtain new insights into the nature of idiolect differentiation in Sienkiewicz. Multidimensional scaling plots for the original yielded patterns of idiolect differentiation by nationality, social status, gender, and age. Corresponding plots for the two translations preserved many of these patterns and exhibited strong similarities to each other. More studies including modified methods (including Burrows's Delta) are needed to observe further and explain why exactly patterns of similarity/difference between character idiolects are so strongly preserved in translation.
departmental parameterization:	25
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper