Translation as Rational Communication
(B07)
Subject Area
Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
Term
since 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232722074
B7 focuses on the specific linguistic properties of translation, i.e. non-randomly occurring linguistic features that distinguish translations from original productions, also referred to as translationese. Our overarching research question is to what extent translationese effects can be described and explained in an information-theoretic framework of rational communication. Our approach is corpus-based using selected models of information content (surprisal, entropy); specifically, we investigate the interplay of surprisal and (working) memory, which is a crucial factor in simultaneous interpreting.
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