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Title: | Translating spanish infinitives: The translation of a technical text with Omega-T using corpora as support tools |
Author: | Ruiz Arias, Laia |
Tutor: | Mesa Lao, Bartolomé |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
Abstract: | The project seeks the analysis of the usefulness of linguistic corpora in relation to the translation of a text. In order to do so, the project analyses the presence of Spanish infinitives and how those translate into English. This is performed by means of a quantitative analysis of concordances of the infinitives in the technical text and in the corpora, that is, both in the British National Corpus (BNC)1 and in the News on the Web Corpus (NOW)2. The data analysis follows a chartering of information in tables. The validation of the usefulness is dependent on the number of concordances in the corpora. If the strings queried displayed a high number of concordances, they were marked as valid. Otherwise, they were discarded and a new translation was presented. So as to validate whether the results were right, the Merriam Webster Learner's Dictionary3 was used for the verification of a prescriptive use of grammar. Eventually, in spite of it being a laborious process, both the methodology and the analysis of the results seem to prove that corpora may well be a useful tool to incorporate in further research in the field of translation studies. |
Keywords: | contrastive linguistics spanish infinitives |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
Issue Date: | 22-Jun-2017 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Appears in Collections: | Trabajos finales de carrera, trabajos de investigación, etc. |
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