Literary Digital Stylistics in Translation Studies by Anna Maria Cipriani

Literary Digital Stylistics in Translation Studies by Anna Maria Cipriani

This book presents a systematic literary comparison of the retranslations by adopting a mixed-method and bottom-up (inductive) approach by developing an empirical corpus approach. This corpus is specifically tailored to identify and study linguistic and non-linguistic modernist features throughout the texts, such as stream of consciousness-indirect interior monologue and free indirect speech. All occurrences are analysed quantitatively in the computations of inferential and comparative statistics, such as tests of time trends, lexical variety, and lexical frequency. The target texts are digitised, and the resulting text files are then analysed using a bespoke, novel computer program capable of the functions not provided by commercially available software such as WordSmith Tools and WMatrix. This methodology enables in-depth explorations of micro- and macro-textual features and allows a mixed-method approach combining close-reading qualitative analysis with systematic quantitative comparisons.

 

The empirical study of the digital corpus of eleven Italian (re)translations of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse identifies a progressive source-text orientation only in a relatively few aspects of a few target texts. The translators’ presence affects all the examined target texts in terms of register and style under the influence of the Italian translation norms usually attributed to the translation of literary classics. Its intended readership comprises students of the mentioned fields and the general public of readers, editors, and publishers.

Pearce, John: - John Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at King's College, London. His research interests lie in Roman archaeology, especially Italy and the provinces of north-western Europe with particular emphasis on funerary evidence as a source for understanding Roman society, including commemorative memorials, burial rituals and the remains of the dead themselves.

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ISBN 13	9789819965922
ISBN 10	9819965926
Title	Literary Digital Stylistics in Translation Studies
Author	Anna Maria Cipriani
Series	New Frontiers In Translation Studies
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Year published	2023-11-21
Number of pages	195
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