Translation as a writing process
Pauses in translation versus monolingual text production
Sini Immonen | University of Joensuu, Finland
This paper is an empirical study on pause patterns in fluent translation and monolingual text production. By comparing pauses recorded from both processes, two temporal features were discovered: Firstly, the mean length of pause at textual category boundaries grew the higher the category was in the linguistic hierarchy. Secondly, the length of pause at clause level and lower was on average longer in translation than in monolingual text production, whereas pauses above clause level tended to be shorter in translation. Besides the differences in pause duration, translation also affected the use of total production time. Translation requires on average a longer revision and monitoring phase while the drafting phase is completed more quickly. Both writing tasks used approximately the same proportion of time for the orientation phase.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The experiment design
- 2.1The subjects
- 2.2The experimental setting
- 2.3Choosing the source material for the assignments
- 2.4The retrospective interview
- 3.Analysing the data
- 3.1The data in general
- 3.2 Preparing the data for analysis
- 3.3Properties of pauses
- 3.3.1The effect of location
- 3.3.2The effect of translation
- 4.Discussion
- 4.1Planning and revision in translation
- 4.2Pause distribution
- Notes
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References
Published online: 01 May 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.18.2.06imm
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.18.2.06imm
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