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标题：From Babylon to Bergen: On the usefulness of aligned texts
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作者：Signe Oksefjell Ebeling ; Jarle Ebeling
期刊名称：Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies
印刷版ISSN：1892-2449
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：23-42
DOI：10.15845/bells.v3i1.359
出版社：The University of Bergen
摘要：After outlining a short and select history of (the usefulness of) parallel texts and alignment, this paper presents a case study where the point of departure is a Norwegian text extract aligned against its translations into seven different target languages, using the Translation Corpus Aligner, originally developed by Knut Hofland.Our main concern is cases where there is not a one-to-one correspondence at sentence level between original (source) and translation (target) text.We seek to answer questions such as why a translator, translating into a specific language has chosen to split, or merge, a sentence in the source texts, while translators, translating into other languages have chosen not to do so.The study shows that a multitude of contributing factors seem to be involved , including author and translator style, target language constraints and preferences and perhaps even country- or language-specific translation guidelines.
关键词：alignment;!parallel!texts;!contrastive!analysis;!corpora;!translation!strategies