Implicitation in Translation: Empirical evidence for operational asymmetry in translation

Kinga Klaudy; Krisztina Károly

doi:10.1556/Acr.6.2005.1.2

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Implicitation in Translation: Empirical evidence for operational asymmetry in translation

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Kinga Klaudy

Kinga Klaudy Interpreter and Translator Training Centre, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University Múzeum krt. 4, Building “F”, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary

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Krisztina Károly

Krisztina Károly Department of English applied linguistics School of English and american studies, Eötvös Loránd University Department of English Applied Linguistics Ajtósi Dürer sor 19-21, H-1146 Budapest, Hungary

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Pages:: 13–28

Online Publication Date:: 22 Jul 2005

Publication Date:: 01 Apr 2005

Article Category:: Journal Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/Acr.6.2005.1.2

Keywords:: implicitation; implicitation; bi-directional comparison; operational asymmetry; two-way operations; one-way operations; asymmetric explicitation

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This study focuses on the notions of explicitation and implicitation in translation and aims to provide empirical evidence for operational asymmetry (Klaudy 2001). Bi-directional (SL=L1→TL=L2 and SL=L2→TL=L1) comparisons show that when explicitation takes place in the L1→L2 direction, implicitation can be observed in the L2→L1 direction. This phenomenon is referred to as symmetric explicitation. It may also happen, however, that when explicitation is carried out in the L1→L2 direction, no implicitation occurs in the L2→L1 direction. This phenomenon is referred to as asymmetric explicitation. It would be logical to suppose that all cases of language-specific explicitation in the L1→L2 direction are symmetrical (i.e., matched by implicitation in the L2→L1 direction), but this does not seem to be the case. The present paper reports on the findings of an empirical study designed to investigate the validity of the asymmetry hypothesis in the translation of reporting verbs in literary texts translated from English into Hungarian and from Hungarian into English. Using the method of two-way qualitative translation analysis, the study demonstrates that translators tend to prefer the more explicit forms to the more implicit ones in both directions and often fail to perform implicitation. The study may thus provide further evidence for the assumption that semantic explicitation is in fact a universal translation strategy.

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Editor-in-Chief: Krisztina KÁROLY (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

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Andrew CHESTERMAN (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Kirsten MALMKJÆR (University of Leicester, UK)
Christiane NORD (University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
Anthony PYM (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Mary SNELL-HORNBY (University of Vienna, Austria)
Sonja TIRKKONEN-CONDIT (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland)

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Mona BAKER (Shanghai International Studies University, China, University of Oslo, Norway)
Łucja BIEL (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Gloria CORPAS PASTOR (University of Malaga, Spain; University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Rodica DIMITRIU (Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi, Romania)
Birgitta Englund DIMITROVA (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Sylvia KALINA (Cologne Technical University, Germany)
Haidee KOTZE (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Sara LAVIOSA (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Brian MOSSOP (York University, Toronto, Canada)
Orero PILAR (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Gábor PRÓSZÉKY (Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary)
Alessandra RICCARDI (University of Trieste, Italy)
Edina ROBIN (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Myriam SALAMA-CARR (University of Manchester, UK)
Mohammad Saleh SANATIFAR (independent researcher, Iran)
Sanjun SUN (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
Anikó SOHÁR (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)
Sonia VANDEPITTE (University of Gent, Belgium)
Albert VERMES (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary)
Yifan ZHU (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, China)

Prof. Dr. Krisztina KÁROLY
School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
H-1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 5., Hungary
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