This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), crea... more This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), created by the research group of the same name (Department of Translation and Communication, Universitat Jaume I, Spain). The COVALT corpus is a four-million word corpus made up of narrative works originally written in English, French, and German and their Catalan translations published in the autonomous community of Valencia between 1990 and 2000. Since the members of the COVALT group are interested in translation research, and more specifically in the investigation of translated Catalan and Spanish, this corpus has recently been extended to include translations into Spanish published in Spain (COVALT PAR_ES corpus). This chapter presents the COVALT PAR_ES corpus, as well as its process of compilation and analysis with CQPweb.
The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning ... more The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning but also in translator training. However, corpora are sometimes seen by students as excessively complicated in terms both of the great amount of information they provide and of the complexity of their technical features. As a possible solution to this problem, this paper proposes the use of corpus-based tasks in the form of a webquest, a task format designed to enhance autonomy and interaction and to be suitable for use in the computer-based classroom or in distance learning. We first present some examples of corpus-based tasks aimed at promoting student-student collaboration and student-teacher interaction, then offer a detailed account of two webquests designed to be used in courses for future translators.
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies, 2019
This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), crea... more This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), created by the research group of the same name (Department of Translation and Communication, Universitat Jaume I, Spain). The COVALT corpus is a four-million word corpus made up of narrative works originally written in English, French, and German and their Catalan translations published in the autonomous community of Valencia between 1990 and 2000. Since the members of the COVALT group are interested in translation research, and more specifically in the investigation of translated Catalan and Spanish, this corpus has recently been extended to include translations into Spanish published in Spain (COVALT PAR_ES corpus). This chapter presents the COVALT PAR_ES corpus, as well as its process of compilation and analysis with CQPweb.
Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties an... more Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties and techniques in a parallel corpus of literary texts
The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning ... more The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning but also in translator training. However, corpora are sometimes seen by students as excessively complicated in terms both of the great amount of information they provide and of the complexity of their technical features. As a possible solution to this problem, this paper proposes the use of corpus-based tasks in the form of a webquest, a task format designed to enhance autonomy and interaction and to be suitable for use in the computer-based classroom or in distance learning. We first present some examples of corpus-based tasks aimed at promoting student-student collaboration and student-teacher interaction, then offer a detailed account of two webquests designed to be used in courses for future translators.
This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the di... more This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the diachronic description of the semantics of emotion words. It analyses three German anger words (Wut,ZornandÄrger) in two corpora: DTA (Deutsches Textarchiv, covering the period 1600–1899) and DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, which covers twentieth-century German). The study is based on two complementary approaches: a semantic and pragmatic analysis of co-occurrences (Oster, 2012); and the use of semantic foci (Ogarkova & Soriano, 2014). This allows for a detailed description of the semantic evolution of the three anger words for four aspects of emotion – Control, Lack of Control, Visibility and Internalization – while exploring the advantages of a combined quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis.
This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. ... more This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. It aims to establish whether there are differences between translated texts and original texts in a given language as to how emotions are expressed and whether emotion conceptualization in the translated texts is closer to that of the source or the target language. To do so, the study focuses on one emotion in a specific language combination: the conceptual domain of anger in German and Spanish. In a first step, analysis of two large reference corpora provides a contrastive description of the concept anger as represented by prototypical emotion lexemes in both languages (Wut, Zorn and Ärger in German and ira, rabia, enojo in Spanish). Then, the parallel corpus COVALT is used to study three aspects of the expression of anger in Spanish translated texts: conceptual metaphor, physical effects and consequences of the emotion. Analysis of the use of conceptual metaphor shows that both source and target language preferences are present in the target texts. A more marked deviation from target language conventions can be observed in the translation of expressions referring to the physical effects or consequences of anger.
Del texto a la traducción. Estudios en homenaje a Pilar Elena, 2020
Esta aportación consiste en un estudio de la colocación del adjetivo en textos literarios en cast... more Esta aportación consiste en un estudio de la colocación del adjetivo en textos literarios en castellano original y traducido. Partimos de la constatación de estudios previos de que los textos traducidos recurren con mayor frecuencia de lo habitual a la anteposición del adjetivo. Algunos de estos trabajos presuponen, además, que la causa de ello se encuentra en la influencia de la lengua de partida, en especial del inglés. A través de un análisis cuantitativo de un corpus comparable de textos traducidos y originales, este trabajo se propone comprobar, por una parte, si se confirma esta tendencia para la combinación alemán-castellano. En un segundo paso cualitativo del análisis, se pone en relación la posición del adjetivo y su categoría semántica, con el fin de indagar en una posible explicación del fenómeno. Los datos obtenidos confirman la tendencia, pero únicamente para adjetivos calificativos de tipo valorativo. Puesto que una de las funciones principales de la anteposición del adjetivo es resaltar su carga valorativa o enfática, llegamos a la conclusión de que, al menos para la traducción de textos literarios, la sobrerrepresentación del adjetivo antepuesto se debe más a la influencia de los patrones de la lengua meta (convencionalización) que a una posible interferencia de la lengua origen. Palabras clave: anteposición del adjetivo, estudios de traducción basados en corpus, traducción literaria, rasgos del lenguaje traducido, interferencia, convencionalización. Abstract This contribution studies the placement of Spanish adjectives in original and translated texts. We start from the observation of previous studies that translators place the adjective before the noun more frequently than is usual in original Spanish texts. Some of these works also presuppose that the cause of this lies in the influence of the source language, especially English. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a comparable corpus of translated and original literary texts, this study relates the position of the adjective to its semantic category. The data obtained confirms the over-representation of pre-noun adjectives, but only for those that qualify as evaluative. Since one of the main functions of the Spanish adjective's anteposition is to highlight its evaluative or emphatic load, the conclusion is reached that, at least for the translation of literary texts, the over-representation of the pre-noun adjective is due more to the influence of the patterns of the target language (conventionalization) than to a hypothetical interference of the source language.
This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the di... more This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the diachronic description of the semantics of emotion words. It analyses three German anger words (Wut, Zorn and Ärger) in two corpora: DTA (Deutsches Textarchiv, covering the period 1600-1899) and DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, which covers twentieth-century German). The study is based on two complementary approaches: a semantic and pragmatic analysis of co-occurrences (Oster, 2012); and the use of semantic foci (Ogarkova & Soriano, 2014). This allows for a detailed description of the semantic evolution of the three anger words for four aspects of emotion – Control, Lack of Control, Visibility and Internalization – while exploring the advantages of a combined quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis.
Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties an... more Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties and techniques in a parallel corpus of literary texts Abstract This paper presents an exploratory study on translators' decisions when encountering food-related translation difficulties in a parallel corpus of German original narrative texts and their translations into Spanish and Catalan. For this purpose, all food and drink related lexemes in the German original texts were extracted and classified in semantic groups. As a second step, the source and target text fragments of lexemes related to food-related cultural referents, metaphorical expressions or ways of eating and drinking were extracted and analysed in view of the techniques applied by the translators of both language combinations. The results obtained through the classification and quantification of the translation techniques in these three domains allow conclusions to be drawn regarding a) the existence of foreignizing or domesticating tendencies in the translation of food terms, b) the ways translators deal with action verbs that encompass multiple meaning aspects and c) the degree of metaphoricity and food-relatedness in the translation of metaphorical expressions.
In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth a... more In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth analysis of two German emotion words (Wut and Zorn) that roughly correspond to the English lexical unit anger. Anger, being an especially complex category, is among the emotions that have attracted most interest from linguists. This is especially so in the cognitive linguistic tradition, starting with Kövecses’ in-depth work (e.g. Kövecses, 1986; Lakoff and Kövecses, 1987). This type of research has been applied to a great variety of languages, (for an overview, cf. for example Kövecses (2000) or Al-Hadlaq & Maalej's (2012) recent list of works in a wide array of languages). Many of these studies follow a conceptual metaphor approach (for example Barcelona 1989; Soriano-Salinas 2003; Philip 2006; Türker 2013) or Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage (Wierzbicka, 1998; Durst, 2001; Harkins, 2001; Kornacki, 2001); others are based on a more traditional linguistic lexical description (Weigand, 1998) or make use of experimental psycholinguistic methods like the labelling of emotion scenarios (Ogarkova et al., 2012). Additionally, a number of them adopt a contrastive point of view, mainly using English as a point of comparison. Many of these descriptions, contrastive or not, look either at the category of anger as a whole or, if they follow a lexical approach, they concentrate on one salient member of the category. However, not all languages have such a straightforward candidate for a central member as English “anger”. This is the case of Spanish (where we find “ira”, “rabia”, “enojo”, “enfado”, etc.) or German. In this paper we will aim at an intralingual contrastive description of two of the core members of the emotion category of anger in one language – German in this case. A corpus-based approach is used to establish the similarities and differences between Wut and Zorn on different levels of meaning. For the corpus study, data from two very large corpora of contemporary German texts (fiction, non-fiction, scientific and newspaper) are used. The first one is DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jhs.), a corpus consisting of 120 million words. The second resource is the collocation database CCDB, through which collocation profiles of approximately 220,000 node words can be accessed. The information it offers is based on a 2.2 billion word subset of the German Reference Corpus (DEREKO), compiled by the Institut der Deutschen Sprache (IDS). As a first step, the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualisations of both items are analysed and compared. Other aspects that are relevant for the description of these emotions and can be described by means of co-occurrence analysis are their conceptual proximity to other emotion words and the way they are described or evaluated (their semantic prosody). In a third step, looking at the semantic subsets the co-occurrences belong to from the point of view of syntagmatic relations between the emotion concept and its surroundings in the text (semantic preference), information can be extracted about causes of anger, about its consequences and about who experiences it. The results show that, taking both words together, the metaphorical conceptualisation of the concept of anger proves to be very similar to that which has been described for other Western languages like English or Spanish. Going into more detail, however, the corpus analysis allows us to explore how each word specializes in certain aspects of the emotion and to corroborate, contradict or complement previous studies on this.
In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth a... more In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth analysis of two German emotion words (Wut and Zorn) that roughly correspond to the English lexical unit anger. Anger, being an especially complex category, is among the emotions that have attracted most interest from linguists. This is especially so in the cognitive linguistic tradition, starting with Kövecses’ in-depth work (e.g. Kövecses, 1986; Lakoff and Kövecses, 1987). This type of research has been applied to a great variety of languages, (for an overview, cf. for example Kövecses (2000) or Al-Hadlaq & Maalej's (2012) recent list of works in a wide array of languages). Many of these studies follow a conceptual metaphor approach (for example Barcelona 1989; Soriano-Salinas 2003; Philip 2006; Türker 2013) or Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage (Wierzbicka, 1998; Durst, 2001; Harkins, 2001; Kornacki, 2001); others are based on a more traditional linguistic lexical description (Weigand, 1998) or make use of experimental psycholinguistic methods like the labelling of emotion scenarios (Ogarkova et al., 2012). Additionally, a number of them adopt a contrastive point of view, mainly using English as a point of comparison. Many of these descriptions, contrastive or not, look either at the category of anger as a whole or, if they follow a lexical approach, they concentrate on one salient member of the category. However, not all languages have such a straightforward candidate for a central member as English “anger”. This is the case of Spanish (where we find “ira”, “rabia”, “enojo”, “enfado”, etc.) or German. In this paper we will aim at an intralingual contrastive description of two of the core members of the emotion category of anger in one language – German in this case. A corpus-based approach is used to establish the similarities and differences between Wut and Zorn on different levels of meaning. For the corpus study, data from two very large corpora of contemporary German texts (fiction, non-fiction, scientific and newspaper) are used. The first one is DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jhs.), a corpus consisting of 120 million words. The second resource is the collocation database CCDB, through which collocation profiles of approximately 220,000 node words can be accessed. The information it offers is based on a 2.2 billion word subset of the German Reference Corpus (DEREKO), compiled by the Institut der Deutschen Sprache (IDS). As a first step, the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualisations of both items are analysed and compared. Other aspects that are relevant for the description of these emotions and can be described by means of co-occurrence analysis are their conceptual proximity to other emotion words and the way they are described or evaluated (their semantic prosody). In a third step, looking at the semantic subsets the co-occurrences belong to from the point of view of syntagmatic relations between the emotion concept and its surroundings in the text (semantic preference), information can be extracted about causes of anger, about its consequences and about who experiences it. The results show that, taking both words together, the metaphorical conceptualisation of the concept of anger proves to be very similar to that which has been described for other Western languages like English or Spanish. Going into more detail, however, the corpus analysis allows us to explore how each word specializes in certain aspects of the emotion and to corroborate, contradict or complement previous studies on this.
The aim of this paper is to explore some of the possibilities, advantages and difficulties of cor... more The aim of this paper is to explore some of the possibilities, advantages and difficulties of corpus-based analyses of semantic and pragmatic aspects of language in one particular field, namely the linguistic expression of emotion concepts.
For this purpose, a methodological procedure is proposed and an exemplary analysis of the emotion concept “fear” in English is performed. Theprocedure combines Kövecses’ lexical approach and Stefanowitsch’s metaphorical pattern analysis with additional concepts from corpus linguistics such as semantic preference and semantic prosody. The results of the study show that such a corpus-based analysis of emotion words offers several advantages.
Firstly, by exploring the surroundings of the search word in a vast
amount of text, we are not only able to find evidence of conceptual metaphor and metonymy that structure the emotion concept and of related emotion concepts,but also we can enrich the description of the emotion concept with information from a series of dimensions and add a pragmatic viewpoint by revealing
an explicit or implicit evaluation of the emotion. The second advantage offered by a corpus-based approach lies in the possibility of quantifying results, i.e., comparing the frequency, productivity and creative use of individual metaphors and metonymies, which is especially interesting in view of contrastive
studies.
Mario Brdar, Ida Raffaelli and Milena Zic Fuchs (2012): Cognitive Linguistics beween Universality and Variation. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 327-354., 2012
This paper explores some of the possibilities offered by corpus methodology in analysing the ling... more This paper explores some of the possibilities offered by corpus methodology in analysing the linguistic expression of emotion concepts. The methodological procedure used combines conceptual tools from Kövecses’ lexical approach with concepts from corpus linguistics such as semantic preference and semantic prosody, which enable us to enrich the description of the emotion concept with additional aspects. The analysis is used to provide a contrastive description of the linguistic expression of the German emotion concept “Angst” and its English equivalent “fear”. The results show a considerable degree of coincidence in both languages but also some interesting differences relating to conceptual metaphors and metonymies as well as to pragmatic aspects such as evaluation or acceptability of the emotion.
Übersetzen als Performanz. Translation und Translationswissenschaft in performativem Licht
Mit dem Ziel die Dolmetscherrolle unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Performanz zu beleuchten, werden im... more Mit dem Ziel die Dolmetscherrolle unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Performanz zu beleuchten, werden im Folgenden drei unterschiedliche Dolmetschsituationen (Verhandlungs-, Simultanund Gerichtsdolmetschen) dargestellt, in denen Dolmetscher/innen pragmatische Entscheidungen treffen müssen. Im Anschluss werde ich kurz beleuchten, inwieweit pragmatische Begriffe wie der der Performanz dabei aufschlussreich sein können und schließlich versuchen, vor diesem theoretischen Hintergrund Schlussfolgerungen zu den geschilderten Situationen zu ziehen. *
En este trabajo se analiza la formación de grado y posgrado en interpretación de conferencias que... more En este trabajo se analiza la formación de grado y posgrado en interpretación de conferencias que se ofrece en la actualidad en España a la luz de la realidad profesional y de las opiniones de los intérpretes de conferencias. Para ello se ha realizado una encuesta a profesionales en activo que trabajan en el mercado español sobre algunos aspectos básicos de la profesión, como la oferta y la demanda de profesionales, la carga de trabajo, el nivel de especialización, la formación recibida, etc. Estos datos se contrastan con los resultados de un análisis de los modelos de formación de intérpretes en el nivel de grado y posgrado.
Wie wir auch bei den verschiedensten Veranstaltungen in der Universität feststellen können, finde... more Wie wir auch bei den verschiedensten Veranstaltungen in der Universität feststellen können, finden Programme wie PowerPoint eine immer weitere Verbreitung. Dadurch ändern sich in gewisser Weise auch die Formen der Informationsdarstellung auf Kongressen und Tagungen. Die Beliebtheit dieser Programme liegt sicherlich daran, dass sie eine Erleichterung von Vorbereitung und Vortrag für den Redner sowie des Verstehens seitens des Publikums mit sich bringen. Wird bei diesen Veranstaltungen mit mehreren Sprachen gearbeitet, so kommt auch der Dolmetscher (als Hörer und als Sprecher) in den Genuss dieser Vorzüge. So klingen PowerPoint-gestützte Vorträge oft spontaner und sind aufgrund ihres Rhythmus angenehm zu dolmetschen. Jedoch ist die Verdolmetschung dieser Art von Vorträgen mit eine Reihe von zusätzlichen Schwierigkeiten und Gefahren verbunden, deren sich der Dolmetscher bewusst sein muss, um angemessen reagieren zu können. Ich möchte in diesem Beitrag untersuchen, in welcher Weise sich PowerPoint auf die Vortragsweise des Redners und auf den Verstehensprozess der Hörer auswirken kann, und wie sich die Situation verändert, wenn eine oder gar mehrere zusätzliche Sprachen ins Spiel kommen (besonders im Fall von weniger verbreiteten Sprachen wie dem Deutschen). Abschließend gehe ich darauf ein, mit welchen Strategien der Dolmetscher diesen Schwierigkeiten begegnen kann, um das Verständnis der Zuhörer zu sichern.
This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), crea... more This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), created by the research group of the same name (Department of Translation and Communication, Universitat Jaume I, Spain). The COVALT corpus is a four-million word corpus made up of narrative works originally written in English, French, and German and their Catalan translations published in the autonomous community of Valencia between 1990 and 2000. Since the members of the COVALT group are interested in translation research, and more specifically in the investigation of translated Catalan and Spanish, this corpus has recently been extended to include translations into Spanish published in Spain (COVALT PAR_ES corpus). This chapter presents the COVALT PAR_ES corpus, as well as its process of compilation and analysis with CQPweb.
The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning ... more The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning but also in translator training. However, corpora are sometimes seen by students as excessively complicated in terms both of the great amount of information they provide and of the complexity of their technical features. As a possible solution to this problem, this paper proposes the use of corpus-based tasks in the form of a webquest, a task format designed to enhance autonomy and interaction and to be suitable for use in the computer-based classroom or in distance learning. We first present some examples of corpus-based tasks aimed at promoting student-student collaboration and student-teacher interaction, then offer a detailed account of two webquests designed to be used in courses for future translators.
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies, 2019
This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), crea... more This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), created by the research group of the same name (Department of Translation and Communication, Universitat Jaume I, Spain). The COVALT corpus is a four-million word corpus made up of narrative works originally written in English, French, and German and their Catalan translations published in the autonomous community of Valencia between 1990 and 2000. Since the members of the COVALT group are interested in translation research, and more specifically in the investigation of translated Catalan and Spanish, this corpus has recently been extended to include translations into Spanish published in Spain (COVALT PAR_ES corpus). This chapter presents the COVALT PAR_ES corpus, as well as its process of compilation and analysis with CQPweb.
Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties an... more Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties and techniques in a parallel corpus of literary texts
The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning ... more The use of corpora has proved to be a valuable pedagogic resource, not only in language learning but also in translator training. However, corpora are sometimes seen by students as excessively complicated in terms both of the great amount of information they provide and of the complexity of their technical features. As a possible solution to this problem, this paper proposes the use of corpus-based tasks in the form of a webquest, a task format designed to enhance autonomy and interaction and to be suitable for use in the computer-based classroom or in distance learning. We first present some examples of corpus-based tasks aimed at promoting student-student collaboration and student-teacher interaction, then offer a detailed account of two webquests designed to be used in courses for future translators.
This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the di... more This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the diachronic description of the semantics of emotion words. It analyses three German anger words (Wut,ZornandÄrger) in two corpora: DTA (Deutsches Textarchiv, covering the period 1600–1899) and DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, which covers twentieth-century German). The study is based on two complementary approaches: a semantic and pragmatic analysis of co-occurrences (Oster, 2012); and the use of semantic foci (Ogarkova & Soriano, 2014). This allows for a detailed description of the semantic evolution of the three anger words for four aspects of emotion – Control, Lack of Control, Visibility and Internalization – while exploring the advantages of a combined quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis.
This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. ... more This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. It aims to establish whether there are differences between translated texts and original texts in a given language as to how emotions are expressed and whether emotion conceptualization in the translated texts is closer to that of the source or the target language. To do so, the study focuses on one emotion in a specific language combination: the conceptual domain of anger in German and Spanish. In a first step, analysis of two large reference corpora provides a contrastive description of the concept anger as represented by prototypical emotion lexemes in both languages (Wut, Zorn and Ärger in German and ira, rabia, enojo in Spanish). Then, the parallel corpus COVALT is used to study three aspects of the expression of anger in Spanish translated texts: conceptual metaphor, physical effects and consequences of the emotion. Analysis of the use of conceptual metaphor shows that both source and target language preferences are present in the target texts. A more marked deviation from target language conventions can be observed in the translation of expressions referring to the physical effects or consequences of anger.
Del texto a la traducción. Estudios en homenaje a Pilar Elena, 2020
Esta aportación consiste en un estudio de la colocación del adjetivo en textos literarios en cast... more Esta aportación consiste en un estudio de la colocación del adjetivo en textos literarios en castellano original y traducido. Partimos de la constatación de estudios previos de que los textos traducidos recurren con mayor frecuencia de lo habitual a la anteposición del adjetivo. Algunos de estos trabajos presuponen, además, que la causa de ello se encuentra en la influencia de la lengua de partida, en especial del inglés. A través de un análisis cuantitativo de un corpus comparable de textos traducidos y originales, este trabajo se propone comprobar, por una parte, si se confirma esta tendencia para la combinación alemán-castellano. En un segundo paso cualitativo del análisis, se pone en relación la posición del adjetivo y su categoría semántica, con el fin de indagar en una posible explicación del fenómeno. Los datos obtenidos confirman la tendencia, pero únicamente para adjetivos calificativos de tipo valorativo. Puesto que una de las funciones principales de la anteposición del adjetivo es resaltar su carga valorativa o enfática, llegamos a la conclusión de que, al menos para la traducción de textos literarios, la sobrerrepresentación del adjetivo antepuesto se debe más a la influencia de los patrones de la lengua meta (convencionalización) que a una posible interferencia de la lengua origen. Palabras clave: anteposición del adjetivo, estudios de traducción basados en corpus, traducción literaria, rasgos del lenguaje traducido, interferencia, convencionalización. Abstract This contribution studies the placement of Spanish adjectives in original and translated texts. We start from the observation of previous studies that translators place the adjective before the noun more frequently than is usual in original Spanish texts. Some of these works also presuppose that the cause of this lies in the influence of the source language, especially English. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a comparable corpus of translated and original literary texts, this study relates the position of the adjective to its semantic category. The data obtained confirms the over-representation of pre-noun adjectives, but only for those that qualify as evaluative. Since one of the main functions of the Spanish adjective's anteposition is to highlight its evaluative or emphatic load, the conclusion is reached that, at least for the translation of literary texts, the over-representation of the pre-noun adjective is due more to the influence of the patterns of the target language (conventionalization) than to a hypothetical interference of the source language.
This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the di... more This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the diachronic description of the semantics of emotion words. It analyses three German anger words (Wut, Zorn and Ärger) in two corpora: DTA (Deutsches Textarchiv, covering the period 1600-1899) and DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, which covers twentieth-century German). The study is based on two complementary approaches: a semantic and pragmatic analysis of co-occurrences (Oster, 2012); and the use of semantic foci (Ogarkova & Soriano, 2014). This allows for a detailed description of the semantic evolution of the three anger words for four aspects of emotion – Control, Lack of Control, Visibility and Internalization – while exploring the advantages of a combined quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis.
Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties an... more Eating and drinking seen through translation: A study of food-related translation difficulties and techniques in a parallel corpus of literary texts Abstract This paper presents an exploratory study on translators' decisions when encountering food-related translation difficulties in a parallel corpus of German original narrative texts and their translations into Spanish and Catalan. For this purpose, all food and drink related lexemes in the German original texts were extracted and classified in semantic groups. As a second step, the source and target text fragments of lexemes related to food-related cultural referents, metaphorical expressions or ways of eating and drinking were extracted and analysed in view of the techniques applied by the translators of both language combinations. The results obtained through the classification and quantification of the translation techniques in these three domains allow conclusions to be drawn regarding a) the existence of foreignizing or domesticating tendencies in the translation of food terms, b) the ways translators deal with action verbs that encompass multiple meaning aspects and c) the degree of metaphoricity and food-relatedness in the translation of metaphorical expressions.
In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth a... more In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth analysis of two German emotion words (Wut and Zorn) that roughly correspond to the English lexical unit anger. Anger, being an especially complex category, is among the emotions that have attracted most interest from linguists. This is especially so in the cognitive linguistic tradition, starting with Kövecses’ in-depth work (e.g. Kövecses, 1986; Lakoff and Kövecses, 1987). This type of research has been applied to a great variety of languages, (for an overview, cf. for example Kövecses (2000) or Al-Hadlaq & Maalej's (2012) recent list of works in a wide array of languages). Many of these studies follow a conceptual metaphor approach (for example Barcelona 1989; Soriano-Salinas 2003; Philip 2006; Türker 2013) or Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage (Wierzbicka, 1998; Durst, 2001; Harkins, 2001; Kornacki, 2001); others are based on a more traditional linguistic lexical description (Weigand, 1998) or make use of experimental psycholinguistic methods like the labelling of emotion scenarios (Ogarkova et al., 2012). Additionally, a number of them adopt a contrastive point of view, mainly using English as a point of comparison. Many of these descriptions, contrastive or not, look either at the category of anger as a whole or, if they follow a lexical approach, they concentrate on one salient member of the category. However, not all languages have such a straightforward candidate for a central member as English “anger”. This is the case of Spanish (where we find “ira”, “rabia”, “enojo”, “enfado”, etc.) or German. In this paper we will aim at an intralingual contrastive description of two of the core members of the emotion category of anger in one language – German in this case. A corpus-based approach is used to establish the similarities and differences between Wut and Zorn on different levels of meaning. For the corpus study, data from two very large corpora of contemporary German texts (fiction, non-fiction, scientific and newspaper) are used. The first one is DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jhs.), a corpus consisting of 120 million words. The second resource is the collocation database CCDB, through which collocation profiles of approximately 220,000 node words can be accessed. The information it offers is based on a 2.2 billion word subset of the German Reference Corpus (DEREKO), compiled by the Institut der Deutschen Sprache (IDS). As a first step, the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualisations of both items are analysed and compared. Other aspects that are relevant for the description of these emotions and can be described by means of co-occurrence analysis are their conceptual proximity to other emotion words and the way they are described or evaluated (their semantic prosody). In a third step, looking at the semantic subsets the co-occurrences belong to from the point of view of syntagmatic relations between the emotion concept and its surroundings in the text (semantic preference), information can be extracted about causes of anger, about its consequences and about who experiences it. The results show that, taking both words together, the metaphorical conceptualisation of the concept of anger proves to be very similar to that which has been described for other Western languages like English or Spanish. Going into more detail, however, the corpus analysis allows us to explore how each word specializes in certain aspects of the emotion and to corroborate, contradict or complement previous studies on this.
In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth a... more In this paper, an attempt is made to apply corpus-based methods in order to provide an in-depth analysis of two German emotion words (Wut and Zorn) that roughly correspond to the English lexical unit anger. Anger, being an especially complex category, is among the emotions that have attracted most interest from linguists. This is especially so in the cognitive linguistic tradition, starting with Kövecses’ in-depth work (e.g. Kövecses, 1986; Lakoff and Kövecses, 1987). This type of research has been applied to a great variety of languages, (for an overview, cf. for example Kövecses (2000) or Al-Hadlaq & Maalej's (2012) recent list of works in a wide array of languages). Many of these studies follow a conceptual metaphor approach (for example Barcelona 1989; Soriano-Salinas 2003; Philip 2006; Türker 2013) or Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage (Wierzbicka, 1998; Durst, 2001; Harkins, 2001; Kornacki, 2001); others are based on a more traditional linguistic lexical description (Weigand, 1998) or make use of experimental psycholinguistic methods like the labelling of emotion scenarios (Ogarkova et al., 2012). Additionally, a number of them adopt a contrastive point of view, mainly using English as a point of comparison. Many of these descriptions, contrastive or not, look either at the category of anger as a whole or, if they follow a lexical approach, they concentrate on one salient member of the category. However, not all languages have such a straightforward candidate for a central member as English “anger”. This is the case of Spanish (where we find “ira”, “rabia”, “enojo”, “enfado”, etc.) or German. In this paper we will aim at an intralingual contrastive description of two of the core members of the emotion category of anger in one language – German in this case. A corpus-based approach is used to establish the similarities and differences between Wut and Zorn on different levels of meaning. For the corpus study, data from two very large corpora of contemporary German texts (fiction, non-fiction, scientific and newspaper) are used. The first one is DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jhs.), a corpus consisting of 120 million words. The second resource is the collocation database CCDB, through which collocation profiles of approximately 220,000 node words can be accessed. The information it offers is based on a 2.2 billion word subset of the German Reference Corpus (DEREKO), compiled by the Institut der Deutschen Sprache (IDS). As a first step, the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualisations of both items are analysed and compared. Other aspects that are relevant for the description of these emotions and can be described by means of co-occurrence analysis are their conceptual proximity to other emotion words and the way they are described or evaluated (their semantic prosody). In a third step, looking at the semantic subsets the co-occurrences belong to from the point of view of syntagmatic relations between the emotion concept and its surroundings in the text (semantic preference), information can be extracted about causes of anger, about its consequences and about who experiences it. The results show that, taking both words together, the metaphorical conceptualisation of the concept of anger proves to be very similar to that which has been described for other Western languages like English or Spanish. Going into more detail, however, the corpus analysis allows us to explore how each word specializes in certain aspects of the emotion and to corroborate, contradict or complement previous studies on this.
The aim of this paper is to explore some of the possibilities, advantages and difficulties of cor... more The aim of this paper is to explore some of the possibilities, advantages and difficulties of corpus-based analyses of semantic and pragmatic aspects of language in one particular field, namely the linguistic expression of emotion concepts.
For this purpose, a methodological procedure is proposed and an exemplary analysis of the emotion concept “fear” in English is performed. Theprocedure combines Kövecses’ lexical approach and Stefanowitsch’s metaphorical pattern analysis with additional concepts from corpus linguistics such as semantic preference and semantic prosody. The results of the study show that such a corpus-based analysis of emotion words offers several advantages.
Firstly, by exploring the surroundings of the search word in a vast
amount of text, we are not only able to find evidence of conceptual metaphor and metonymy that structure the emotion concept and of related emotion concepts,but also we can enrich the description of the emotion concept with information from a series of dimensions and add a pragmatic viewpoint by revealing
an explicit or implicit evaluation of the emotion. The second advantage offered by a corpus-based approach lies in the possibility of quantifying results, i.e., comparing the frequency, productivity and creative use of individual metaphors and metonymies, which is especially interesting in view of contrastive
studies.
Mario Brdar, Ida Raffaelli and Milena Zic Fuchs (2012): Cognitive Linguistics beween Universality and Variation. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 327-354., 2012
This paper explores some of the possibilities offered by corpus methodology in analysing the ling... more This paper explores some of the possibilities offered by corpus methodology in analysing the linguistic expression of emotion concepts. The methodological procedure used combines conceptual tools from Kövecses’ lexical approach with concepts from corpus linguistics such as semantic preference and semantic prosody, which enable us to enrich the description of the emotion concept with additional aspects. The analysis is used to provide a contrastive description of the linguistic expression of the German emotion concept “Angst” and its English equivalent “fear”. The results show a considerable degree of coincidence in both languages but also some interesting differences relating to conceptual metaphors and metonymies as well as to pragmatic aspects such as evaluation or acceptability of the emotion.
Übersetzen als Performanz. Translation und Translationswissenschaft in performativem Licht
Mit dem Ziel die Dolmetscherrolle unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Performanz zu beleuchten, werden im... more Mit dem Ziel die Dolmetscherrolle unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Performanz zu beleuchten, werden im Folgenden drei unterschiedliche Dolmetschsituationen (Verhandlungs-, Simultanund Gerichtsdolmetschen) dargestellt, in denen Dolmetscher/innen pragmatische Entscheidungen treffen müssen. Im Anschluss werde ich kurz beleuchten, inwieweit pragmatische Begriffe wie der der Performanz dabei aufschlussreich sein können und schließlich versuchen, vor diesem theoretischen Hintergrund Schlussfolgerungen zu den geschilderten Situationen zu ziehen. *
En este trabajo se analiza la formación de grado y posgrado en interpretación de conferencias que... more En este trabajo se analiza la formación de grado y posgrado en interpretación de conferencias que se ofrece en la actualidad en España a la luz de la realidad profesional y de las opiniones de los intérpretes de conferencias. Para ello se ha realizado una encuesta a profesionales en activo que trabajan en el mercado español sobre algunos aspectos básicos de la profesión, como la oferta y la demanda de profesionales, la carga de trabajo, el nivel de especialización, la formación recibida, etc. Estos datos se contrastan con los resultados de un análisis de los modelos de formación de intérpretes en el nivel de grado y posgrado.
Wie wir auch bei den verschiedensten Veranstaltungen in der Universität feststellen können, finde... more Wie wir auch bei den verschiedensten Veranstaltungen in der Universität feststellen können, finden Programme wie PowerPoint eine immer weitere Verbreitung. Dadurch ändern sich in gewisser Weise auch die Formen der Informationsdarstellung auf Kongressen und Tagungen. Die Beliebtheit dieser Programme liegt sicherlich daran, dass sie eine Erleichterung von Vorbereitung und Vortrag für den Redner sowie des Verstehens seitens des Publikums mit sich bringen. Wird bei diesen Veranstaltungen mit mehreren Sprachen gearbeitet, so kommt auch der Dolmetscher (als Hörer und als Sprecher) in den Genuss dieser Vorzüge. So klingen PowerPoint-gestützte Vorträge oft spontaner und sind aufgrund ihres Rhythmus angenehm zu dolmetschen. Jedoch ist die Verdolmetschung dieser Art von Vorträgen mit eine Reihe von zusätzlichen Schwierigkeiten und Gefahren verbunden, deren sich der Dolmetscher bewusst sein muss, um angemessen reagieren zu können. Ich möchte in diesem Beitrag untersuchen, in welcher Weise sich PowerPoint auf die Vortragsweise des Redners und auf den Verstehensprozess der Hörer auswirken kann, und wie sich die Situation verändert, wenn eine oder gar mehrere zusätzliche Sprachen ins Spiel kommen (besonders im Fall von weniger verbreiteten Sprachen wie dem Deutschen). Abschließend gehe ich darauf ein, mit welchen Strategien der Dolmetscher diesen Schwierigkeiten begegnen kann, um das Verständnis der Zuhörer zu sichern.
Resumen: Partiendo de un análisis del mercado profesional de la interpretación de la lengua C y d... more Resumen: Partiendo de un análisis del mercado profesional de la interpretación de la lengua C y de la oferta actual de las titulaciones de Traducción e Interpretación españolas en esta materia, abogamos por una mayor presencia de las destrezas orales en la enseñanza de la lengua C en primer ciclo. En el caso de que los planes de estudio no prevean asignaturas dedicadas a la interpretación de lengua C, proponemos la introducción de asignaturas optativas que den cuenta, de forma flexible, de las necesidades de formación en este ámbito, tanto de los futuros traductores como de los futuros intérpretes.
Los MOOC (massive open online courses) son un formato didáctico reciente por el que están apostan... more Los MOOC (massive open online courses) son un formato didáctico reciente por el que están apostando muchas universidades como un complemento a su oferta de formación reglada. No obstante, hay que hablar todavía de una implantación experimental, puesto que son grandes los retos tecnológicos y, sobre todo, didácticos que implica el hecho de que estos cursos sean, por definición, masivos y abiertos (los cursos más demandados pueden tener decenas de miles de alumnos inscritos) y se realicen exclusivamente en línea.
El objetivo del trabajo descrito en esta comunicación es aplicar el formato MOOC al aprendizaje de la interpretación simultánea, concretamente a la fase inicial de la misma. Ello supone un desafío metodológico y didáctico adicional, puesto que en la interpretación no se trata de la adquisición de conocimientos teóricos, como los que se ofrecen en la mayoría de MOOC disponibles en la actualidad, sino del desarrollo de habilidades prácticas.
Describiremos en primer lugar el planteamiento del curso Interpretación simultánea inglés-español: ejercicios de preparación, ofrecido por la Universitat Jaume I durante los primeros meses del 2014. Se trata de un MOOC que pretende completar la oferta incipiente pero todavía limitada de materiales didácticos abiertos en línea con actividades guiadas de preparación a la interpretación simultánea y materiales audiovisuales seleccionados. El principal reto que ha guiado el diseño del curso ha sido evitar el mayor escollo que se ha detectado para el desarrollo de los MOOC, el de la falta de interactividad (causada por la aplicación de un modelo didáctico de transmisión unidireccional de conocimientos). Por ello, nuestro objetivo ha sido aprovechar al máximo los recursos de la plataforma didáctica (basada en moodle) con el fin de potenciar la interactividad, tanto entre alumnos como entre alumnos y profesores.
Se trata de un curso experimental con un planteamiento decididamente arriesgado y su posibilidad o imposibilidad de funcionamiento depende, en gran medida, de sus participantes. Es por ello que en la segunda parte, dedicada a analizar el funcionamiento del curso, les daremos voz a ellos y hablaremos de quiénes son las personas que forman el público de un curso de estas características, qué expectativas tienen, cómo reaccionan ante las actividades planteadas y cómo las valoran. En estos datos se basarán las conclusiones sobre la posibilidad de aplicación del formato de los MOOC a la enseñanza de la interpretación simultánea, sus limitaciones y ventajas, los problemas encontrados y las posibles soluciones.
La formación universitaria de traductores e intérpretes en España, aunque se iniciara más tarde q... more La formación universitaria de traductores e intérpretes en España, aunque se iniciara más tarde que en otros países europeos, cuenta ya con un recorrido y una experiencia acumulada considerable, desde las diplomaturas de las EUTI, pasando por las licenciaturas en Traducción e Interpretación, hasta llegar a los diversos grados existentes en la actualidad y la formación específica en Interpretación ofrecida a través de programas de máster y posgrado. Esta evolución ha ido en paralelo con el desarrollo y la consolidación del mercado profesional español de la interpretación en sus diversas facetas, que es, junto con las instituciones internacionales, uno de los principales destinos de los titulados de estas carreras.
En este trabajo se estudia el panorama de la interpretación de conferencias en España desde ambos puntos de vista. Por una parte, realizamos una descripción de la situación actual del mercado de la interpretación, con sus necesidades, dificultades, particularidades y tendencias. Y por otra parte, ofrecemos un análisis de los modelos de formación de intérpretes existentes en la universidad española, tanto de grado como de posgrado. De esta manera, perseguimos el objetivo de describir los puntos fuertes y débiles de la enseñanza de la interpretac
This paper addresses the issue of semantic and pragmatic concept analysis from the viewpoint of c... more This paper addresses the issue of semantic and pragmatic concept analysis from the viewpoint of corpus linguistics. One of the main questions to be discussed will be in what ways corpora can reflect the structure and the content of a concept and what practical ways there are to extract this information from a corpus. In order to do so, I would like to discuss the interplay of qualitative and quantitative analyses with the help of examples from in the analysis of emotion concepts. This will also serve to highlight some of the advantages, drawbacks and limitations of this kind of corpus analysis.
La interpretación simultánea, por sus características, requiere el desarrollo de unas habilidades... more La interpretación simultánea, por sus características, requiere el desarrollo de unas habilidades prácticas, por lo que se presta especialmente al trabajo autónomo del estudiante. Este curso pretende completar la oferta incipiente pero todavía limitada de materiales didácticos abiertos en línea con actividades guiadas de preparación a la interpretación simultánea y materiales audiovisuales seleccionados por su adecuación a la primera etapa del aprendizaje de esta profesión. Se dirige, por lo tanto, a cualquier estudiante que quiera iniciarse en la interpretación simultánea en la combinación inglés-español. El objetivo del curso es acompañar al estudiantado en el inicio de la adquisición de las destrezas necesarias para esta modalidad de interpretación. Los materiales están basados en el MOOC del mismo nombre que se realizó en la Universitat Jaume I durante los cursos 2013-2014 y 2014-2015. Autoras: Ulrike Oster y Marta Renau http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/handle/10234/170955
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies New resources and applications (M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto & Irene Doval, eds.), 2019
This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), crea... more This contribution presents a section of the Corpus Valencià de Literatura Traduïda (COVALT), created by the research group of the same name (Department of Translation and Communication, Universitat Jaume I, Spain). The COVALT corpus is a four-million word corpus made up of narrative works originally written in English, French, and German and their Catalan translations published in the autonomous community of Valencia between 1990 and 2000. Since the members of the COVALT group are interested in translation research, and more specifically in the investigation of translated Catalan and Spanish, this corpus has recently been extended to include translations into Spanish published in Spain (COVALT PAR_ES corpus). This chapter presents the COVALT PAR_ES corpus, as well as its process of compilation and analysis with CQPweb.
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Palabras clave: anteposición del adjetivo, estudios de traducción basados en corpus, traducción literaria, rasgos del lenguaje traducido, interferencia, convencionalización.
Abstract This contribution studies the placement of Spanish adjectives in original and translated texts. We start from the observation of previous studies that translators place the adjective before the noun more frequently than is usual in original Spanish texts. Some of these works also presuppose that the cause of this lies in the influence of the source language, especially English. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a comparable corpus of translated and original literary texts, this study relates the position of the adjective to its semantic category. The data obtained confirms the over-representation of pre-noun adjectives, but only for those that qualify as evaluative. Since one of the main functions of the Spanish adjective's anteposition is to highlight its evaluative or emphatic load, the conclusion is reached that, at least for the translation of literary texts, the over-representation of the pre-noun adjective is due more to the influence of the patterns of the target language (conventionalization) than to a hypothetical interference of the source language.
For this purpose, a methodological procedure is proposed and an exemplary analysis of the emotion concept “fear” in English is performed. Theprocedure combines Kövecses’ lexical approach and Stefanowitsch’s metaphorical pattern analysis with additional concepts from corpus linguistics such as semantic preference and semantic prosody. The results of the study show that such a corpus-based analysis of emotion words offers several advantages.
Firstly, by exploring the surroundings of the search word in a vast
amount of text, we are not only able to find evidence of conceptual metaphor and metonymy that structure the emotion concept and of related emotion concepts,but also we can enrich the description of the emotion concept with information from a series of dimensions and add a pragmatic viewpoint by revealing
an explicit or implicit evaluation of the emotion. The second advantage offered by a corpus-based approach lies in the possibility of quantifying results, i.e., comparing the frequency, productivity and creative use of individual metaphors and metonymies, which is especially interesting in view of contrastive
studies.
Palabras clave: anteposición del adjetivo, estudios de traducción basados en corpus, traducción literaria, rasgos del lenguaje traducido, interferencia, convencionalización.
Abstract This contribution studies the placement of Spanish adjectives in original and translated texts. We start from the observation of previous studies that translators place the adjective before the noun more frequently than is usual in original Spanish texts. Some of these works also presuppose that the cause of this lies in the influence of the source language, especially English. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a comparable corpus of translated and original literary texts, this study relates the position of the adjective to its semantic category. The data obtained confirms the over-representation of pre-noun adjectives, but only for those that qualify as evaluative. Since one of the main functions of the Spanish adjective's anteposition is to highlight its evaluative or emphatic load, the conclusion is reached that, at least for the translation of literary texts, the over-representation of the pre-noun adjective is due more to the influence of the patterns of the target language (conventionalization) than to a hypothetical interference of the source language.
For this purpose, a methodological procedure is proposed and an exemplary analysis of the emotion concept “fear” in English is performed. Theprocedure combines Kövecses’ lexical approach and Stefanowitsch’s metaphorical pattern analysis with additional concepts from corpus linguistics such as semantic preference and semantic prosody. The results of the study show that such a corpus-based analysis of emotion words offers several advantages.
Firstly, by exploring the surroundings of the search word in a vast
amount of text, we are not only able to find evidence of conceptual metaphor and metonymy that structure the emotion concept and of related emotion concepts,but also we can enrich the description of the emotion concept with information from a series of dimensions and add a pragmatic viewpoint by revealing
an explicit or implicit evaluation of the emotion. The second advantage offered by a corpus-based approach lies in the possibility of quantifying results, i.e., comparing the frequency, productivity and creative use of individual metaphors and metonymies, which is especially interesting in view of contrastive
studies.
El objetivo del trabajo descrito en esta comunicación es aplicar el formato MOOC al aprendizaje de la interpretación simultánea, concretamente a la fase inicial de la misma. Ello supone un desafío metodológico y didáctico adicional, puesto que en la interpretación no se trata de la adquisición de conocimientos teóricos, como los que se ofrecen en la mayoría de MOOC disponibles en la actualidad, sino del desarrollo de habilidades prácticas.
Describiremos en primer lugar el planteamiento del curso Interpretación simultánea inglés-español: ejercicios de preparación, ofrecido por la Universitat Jaume I durante los primeros meses del 2014. Se trata de un MOOC que pretende completar la oferta incipiente pero todavía limitada de materiales didácticos abiertos en línea con actividades guiadas de preparación a la interpretación simultánea y materiales audiovisuales seleccionados. El principal reto que ha guiado el diseño del curso ha sido evitar el mayor escollo que se ha detectado para el desarrollo de los MOOC, el de la falta de interactividad (causada por la aplicación de un modelo didáctico de transmisión unidireccional de conocimientos). Por ello, nuestro objetivo ha sido aprovechar al máximo los recursos de la plataforma didáctica (basada en moodle) con el fin de potenciar la interactividad, tanto entre alumnos como entre alumnos y profesores.
Se trata de un curso experimental con un planteamiento decididamente arriesgado y su posibilidad o imposibilidad de funcionamiento depende, en gran medida, de sus participantes. Es por ello que en la segunda parte, dedicada a analizar el funcionamiento del curso, les daremos voz a ellos y hablaremos de quiénes son las personas que forman el público de un curso de estas características, qué expectativas tienen, cómo reaccionan ante las actividades planteadas y cómo las valoran. En estos datos se basarán las conclusiones sobre la posibilidad de aplicación del formato de los MOOC a la enseñanza de la interpretación simultánea, sus limitaciones y ventajas, los problemas encontrados y las posibles soluciones.
En este trabajo se estudia el panorama de la interpretación de conferencias en España desde ambos puntos de vista. Por una parte, realizamos una descripción de la situación actual del mercado de la interpretación, con sus necesidades, dificultades, particularidades y tendencias. Y por otra parte, ofrecemos un análisis de los modelos de formación de intérpretes existentes en la universidad española, tanto de grado como de posgrado. De esta manera, perseguimos el objetivo de describir los puntos fuertes y débiles de la enseñanza de la interpretac
Los materiales están basados en el MOOC del mismo nombre que se realizó en la Universitat Jaume I durante los cursos 2013-2014 y 2014-2015.
Autoras: Ulrike Oster y Marta Renau
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