An Eye-Tracking Study of Equivalent Effect in Translation : The Reader Experience of Literary Style

Callum Walker

ISBN 10: 3030557685 / ISBN 13: 9783030557683

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides a detailed example of an eye-tracking method for comparing the reading experience of a literary source text readers with readers of a translation at stylistically marked points. Drawing on principles, methods and inspiration from fields including translation studies, cognitive psychology, and language and literary studies, the author proposes an empirical method to investigate the notion of stylistic foregrounding, with 'style' understoodas the distinctive manner of expression in a particular text.The book employs Raymond Queneau'sZazie dans le métro(1959) and its English translationZazie in the Metro(1960) as a case study to demonstrate the proposed methods. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholarsof translation studies, as well as those interested in literary reception, stylistics and related fields.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Eye-Tracking Study of Equivalent Effect in Translation : The Reader Experience of Literary Style
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030557685
• ISBN 13: 9783030557683
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 28D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

This book provides a detailed example of an eye-tracking method for comparing the reading experience of a literary source text readers with readers of a translation at stylistically marked points. Drawing on principles, methods and inspiration from fields including translation studies, cognitive psychology, and language and literary studies, the author proposes an empirical method to investigate the notion of stylistic foregrounding, with 'style' understood as the distinctive manner of expression in a particular text. The book employs Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro (1959) and its English translation Zazie in the Metro (1960) as a case study to demonstrate the proposed methods. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as those interested in literary reception, stylistics and related fields.

About the Author

Callum Walker is a lecturer in translation technology at the University of Leeds and an honorary research fellow at University College London. His research focuses on how biometric methods can be employed to gauge stylistic and phenomenological equivalence between a source text and its translation, with a particular focus on language varieties.