Regularities and Variations in Learner Translations: a corpus-based study of conjunctive explicitation (Thesis abstract)
Sara Castagnoli · Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) · 2010
This thesis presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use of connectives in a corpus of translations by Italian students, with a view to verifying the existence of phenomena of explicitation, interference and normalisation in these translated texts, as well as their possible correlation with some objective/external factors (such as source text/language and target language preferences) and other more subjective/personal factors (such as translator's style and experience).The above notions have already been extensively studied and debated in the framework of translation studies, where they have even been presented as candidates for translation "universalhood".