A corpus-based translation study on Italian verb-particle constructions translated into Spanish. The case of Lessico famigliare

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Published: Feb 14, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2016.ne3.3
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orality, translation, verb-particle constructions, translation techniques, translation problem

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Andrea Artusi
Universitat de València

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Verb-particle constructions (VPCs) are considered to be a very productive linguistic phenomenon within the Italian language, especially in spontaneous and informal dialogues. On the contrary, in the Spanish language the productivity of such constructions appears to be low. In order to figure out which linguistic patterns seem to be more frequent while translating Italian verb-particle constructions into Spanish, a parallel corpus will be analysed. The corpus consists of the Italian novel Lessico famigliare (by Natalia Ginzburg, 1963) and its translation into Spanish. First, a list of the VPCs contained in the source text will be provided. Secondly, we will show which linguistic patterns are used in the translation, elucidating the reasons why they tend to appear, by means of a cognitive approach. Finally, some translation errors will be highlighted. The possible causes that resulted in such errors will lead us to allege that VPCs should be considered as translation problems.

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Artusi, A. (2018). A corpus-based translation study on Italian verb-particle constructions translated into Spanish. The case of Lessico famigliare. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, 77–102. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2016.ne3.3
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Andrea Artusi, Universitat de València

Andrea Artusi holds a B. A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Spanish and English) from the University of Verona (Italy) and a B.A. in Translation and Interpreting (Spanish, English and Italian) from the University of Valencia (Spain). In 2012 he received his Master’s Degree in Creative and Humanistic Translation from the same university. He is a member of the COMETVAL research group, working on the project “Lexical and discourse analysis of parallel and comparable corpora (Spanish-English-French) of web pages for tourism promotion”, belonging to the IULMA (Interuniversity Institute for Applied Modern Languages). He is currently studying towards his Ph.D. at the University of Valencia, within the field of translation studies.

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