Analysis Of Translation Errors Research Articles

On the Research of English Translation of Chinese Public Signs from the Perspective of Polysystem Theory: A Case Study of a Chinese Enterprise’s Name in its Website

Despite the upsurge of interest in English translation of Chinese public signs, the relevant research has long been limited to the prescriptive study. Translation error analysis and correction are the centre of inquiry of translated public signs. Few researches put translated public signs in a broader social context and probe into the root of translation problems. Inspired by the polysystem theory, this paper otherwise attempts to make a descriptive study on English translation of Chinese public sign. The English translation of a Chinese enterprise’s name in its website will be given a case study. Based on the three subdivided systems in the framework of the polysystem theory, this author will analyze how the multiple factors influences the generation and effectiveness of the translation of public signs.

Analysis of Translation Errors Among Jordanian Students When Translating the Text Al-Ġazāla Al-Ḏakillah: The Case of 4th-Year Spanish-English Students at Al al-Bayt University

Translation is a much more complicated task than it really seems. It is a work in which nuances, knowledge, culture, and the transmission of science are important. The aim is to study the translation errors made by the students of the Translation - 2 course at the University of Al al-Bayt in order to improve their level and learn about and solve the difficulties that our students have. We have asked them to translate a text taken from the book Uncle Hamdī's Tales, which is considered a simple literary text full of sentences with different tenses and highly varied vocabulary. We have detected that there are many spelling difficulties, problems with the semantic meanings in the translation, and failures in terms of correctly translating the syntactic structure of Arabic sentences into Spanish. We have proposed several ways to solve these problems, including spending more time in the course to review tenses with students, strengthening their vocabulary, and having optional tasks to raise their level of writing and spelling.

Teaching the Analysis of Translation Errors through Collaborative Work: The Case of 1st Year Master Students at the University of Mascara – Algeria

Given the gap noted in the Algerian official syllabus of the translation unit, and though both teachers and students are aware of the importance of translation errors, no lecture is dedicated to this concept. Hence, the present investigation attempts to testify the efficiency of collaborative work in teaching translation errors to M.A. students and thereby apply the theoretical background in real situations. It aims to train students to detect and correct errors, improve the final product, and minimise the different types of errors. The paper adopts a qualitative quantitative-mixed method to scrutinise the phenomenon under investigation. Whereas the theoretical part draws on Delisle's (1999) model of translation errors, the practical part relies on data collected via questionnaires, interviews, and document analysis. The paper's data were obtained from M.A. students' documents at Mascara University (Algeria) to examine the efficiency of collaborative work as a method of teaching translation errors. The study finds out that the error rate was reduced by 24% after adopting collaborative work, including the three types of texts (general, medical, and literary). The study also concludes that collaborative work enhances three central competencies competitiveness, autonomy, and motivation; hence, they acquire certain translation maturity and critical thinking.

Analysis of Translation Errors in English-Chinese Translation Practice

Analysis of Translation Errors in English-Chinese Translation Practice

К ВОПРОСУ О ПЕРЕВОДЧЕСКИХ ОШИБКАХ В ПЕРЕДАЧЕ АУДИОВИЗУАЛЬНОГО ПЕСЕННОГО ТЕКСТА

Assessment of the audiovisual translation quality is an important matter of modern language studies since the amount of video materials has become unprecedented these days, and the popularity and spread of unedited amateur and automated translations keep growing. The concept and defining criteria of a translation error have been developed by many linguists, but these criteria are hardly universally applicable, and their practical value frequently depends on the type of a text and the format of its presentation to the audience. This paper reviews various approaches to the concept of translation error in general and in audiovisual translation in particular. Special attention is paid to the controversial nature of audiovisual translation of songs when they are an integral element of the storyline. The analysis of translation errors in Russian and Spanish versions of the animated movie Moana was used to develop specific criteria of distinguishing translation errors, based on intertextuality, technical compliance, and language norm.

Types of Errors Involved in the English-Arabic Translation of Research Abstracts

This study seeks to shed light on the analysis of translation errors occurring in the abstracts of research papers by MA students in the College of Languages and Translation at Imam Mohamed Ben Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The papers were translated from English into Arabic. A sample consisting of forty abstracts has been collected for this end. Liao’s (2010) model of analysis has been used to classify and analyze the errors made in the translations. The final results of this study show that the most occurring errors made by students when translating their abstracts from English into Arabic are mainly language ones. The study puts forward a number of suggestions, which may be very helpful to future students to avoid making translation errors in such abstracts.

The problematic of the literary translation from Arabic to Spanish, study and analysis

Literary translation is the most complex and difficult type among the other types of translation, mainly this is due to the complexity of the literary language itself, and therefore many problems often come along with the process of this translation. This research will present an analytical-contrastive study of the problems of literary translation from Arabic to Spanish, with examples of original texts in Arabic and their respective translations into Spanish. Through the linguistic analysis of translation errors and problems which is applied on our corpus, we intend at the end to extract practical considerations and conclusions to transgress these errors in the future works and participate in the efforts to establish a guideline for the literary translation from Arabic to Spanish.

Сложности перевода юридических терминов в текстах «Общих условий поставок и продаж» (на материале перевода с английского языка на русский)

The purpose of the study is to determine the particularities of English to Russian translation of legal terms in the texts of “General Terms and Conditions of Delivery and Sale”. Scientific novelty lies in the fact that the texts of “General Terms and Conditions of Delivery and Sale” in English have been studied for the first time; an analysis of their translations into Russian, as well as an analysis of translation errors found in the translations has been carried out. As a result, the researchers have identified difficulties in translating such texts, have found specialised terminology from other fields of knowledge, for example, from the banking sector and the field of cargo transportation. Translation variants for the main legal terms have been proposed.

Chinese Translation Errors in English Machine Translation Based on Wireless Sensor Network Communication Algorithm

Globalization is a trend in the future, and the exchanges among countries in the world in economy, politics, and culture are becoming more and more frequent. In order to overcome the increasingly prominent language barriers, translation has become an indispensable “bridge” for communication between countries. Manual translation has long been unable to meet the growing needs of translation. So, machine translation came into being, especially in recent years, machine translation has developed rapidly. Compared with manual translation, machine translation has unique advantages, that is, fast translation speed and free access. With the gradual improvement of the quality of machine translation, the quality of translation has basically met the requirements of rough reading, which makes machine translation one of the hotspots in recent years. However, to achieve the level of intensive reading, the quality of machine translation needs to be further improved. A thorough study of translation error analysis is an important step to improve the quality of machine translation. At present, there are few studies on error analysis of business English in academic circles, and most of them are just simple classification of translation errors, lacking in in-depth empirical research. This study aims to study the advantages and disadvantages of machine translation in translation practice based on wireless sensor network communication algorithms, analyze the typical errors in machine translation, put forward the idea that posttranslation editing can make up for the shortcomings of machine translation, treat English machine translation more objectively, make full use of machine translation tools, combine machine translation with post-manual editing perfectly, improve translation speed, and guarantee translation quality at the same time.

Kesalahan Penerjemahan Google Translate Pada Hadis Arbain Berdasarkan Konteks Keagamaan (Kajian Akar Kata dan Morfologi Turunan)

Translation is the activity producing a source language message with the closest and natural equivalent to the recipient's language, both in terms of meaning and style. The translation process requires grammatical and lexical adjustments to evade unusual structures in the recipient's language. Translation activities are not only done by humans. With the advancement of technology, electronic translation tools have emerged such as Google Translate to translate parts of text or web pages from one language to another. This study aims to describe the Google Translate system in translating a Hadith Arbain text and to analyze the forms of translation errors in the study of root words and derived morphology. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with the source of data and the object is the translation of the Google translation and the Hadith Arbain. Data collection is done by documentation. Error analysis is used in conducting data analysis of translation errors to find errors in the meaning of Arabic morphology forms against Indonesian and vice versa, grammatical errors, meaning of the same root words but different sounds, meaning of glorification, classifying words of the original language into the target language, the use of inappropriate target words, translation, and the meaning of Islamic concepts.

Research Report on the Publicity of Hangzhou’s International Image: The English Translation of Global Communication Language

Through the two main methods of field investigation (data collection) and personal interviews, this research report, combined with studies of translation on global communication language in China, investigates the English translation of global communication service in Hangzhou by using professional OCR recognition software and computer-aided translation (CAT) technology, explores the confusion in the translation of these language collected from the West Lake scenic area, museums, the Asian Games’ main venues and traffic along the route, etc., then carrying out detailed classification and analysis of translation errors and analyzes their occurrence in many aspects. Finally, it puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions to improve the translation quality. The report points out that global communication language is an indispensable part of China’s foreign language services, city’s international language environment and global image construction, and the translation is also related to China’s foreign language education planning and city-level policy research. Translation of global communication language should use appropriate translation strategies, and should be leveled up to foreign communication translation and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries as well as be examined from the perspective of external publicity and construction of international city image. The Hangzhou government should also effectively insure the translation quality, service quality and city benefits of global communication language on a macro level.

Facing Translation Errors at International Organizations: What Corrigenda Reveal About Correction Processes and their Implications for Translation Quality

AbstractCorrigenda issued by international organizations provide a most relevant source for the analysis of translation errors and what they reveal about institutional translation quality control and correction processes. This study examines corrigenda published in three settings (the European Union institutions involved in law-making, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization) in three years over a decade: 2005, 2010 and 2015. It reviews the procedures used to introduce translation corrections in these institutions before presenting the results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of translation-triggered corrigenda in two target languages, French and Spanish, per setting, year, genre, error type and severity. A distinction is made between content reformulation corrections and minor formal corrections for the comparison of diachronic changes and semantic impact levels of corrected errors between the institutions considered. The findings confirm that minor formal errors may have meaning-distorting effects that are as serious as content reformulation errors; when this is not the case, they rarely trigger single-correction corrigenda. The UN recourse to “reissues for technical reasons” for translation corrections and the growing number of corrigenda to EU legal acts and their implications for translation quality assurance and legal certainty are further contextualized and discussed drawing on both corpus analysis and consultations with institutional informants.

A Linguistic Analysis of Translation Errors on Selected Public Notices in Kenya

This paper purposes to analyse translation errors in selected Kenyan public notices. Specifically, it examines how translation faults possess unique linguistic resources. There is an extensive existence of this genre countrywide albeit without proper academic scrutiny to further interrogate fundamental linguistic concepts therein. It involves the application of the Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA) which is unique to the analysis of this genre. Specifically, this research involves collecting data from the social media of the relevant public notices in Kenya. Generally, twelve signage were analysed. The sampling procedure was done purposively to include the diversity of Kenya. To qualify, the data collected had to reflect translation blunders. Then, the data was analysed for linguistic resources. The data was presented using a table showing the relationship between the components sought. Consequently, the study enriched translational linguistics, evaluated textual analysis and critiqued the linguistic concepts of performance and competence. Additionally, it provided useful insights into the cognitive mechanisms used during humour production and understanding.

An analysis of translation errors in 5 literary genres based on American Translation Association (ATA) framework

The analysis of translation errors holds a great deal of importance in the realm of translation studies. Accordingly, many pieces of research have been done on the topic of translation errors analy...

Critical Reading Skills and Translation Ability of Thai EFL Students: Pragmatic, Syntactic, and Semantic Aspects

Translation ability requires many language skills to produce an accurate and complete text; however, one important skill, critical reading in the research, has been neglected. This research, therefore, employed the explanatory sequential mixed method to investigate the differences in Thai-English translation ability between students with a high level of critical reading skill and students with a low level of critical reading skill, and to examine the relationship between translation ability and critical reading skill. Moreover, translation error analysis, with four main aspects, pragmatic, syntactic, semantic, and miscellaneous errors, was also conducted to explore the dominant translation errors committed by both groups of students. To this end, the participants of the study were 60 English major students from a Thai university. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference in Thai-English translation ability between the students with a high level of critical reading skill and the students with a low level of critical reading skill, and a significant correlation between translation ability and critical reading skill. In the translation error analysis, the semantic aspect, particularly the wrong use of words, was found to be the most frequent error committed by both groups of students.

An Analysis of Translation Errors: A Case Study of Vietnamese EFL Students

The study aimed to analyze the translation errors committed by Vietnamese EFL students, and identify the source of errors, then inform some implications of pedagogy to improve the translation ability of the students. To this end, 36 Vietnamese students, who at the time of the study were studying English as their major, were subjected to a Vietnamese-English translation test. Translation errors were analyzed using a threefold perspective proposed by Popescu (2012) including linguistic errors, comprehension errors, and translation errors. Findings showed that translation errors and linguistic errors are the most common errors, of which errors related to lexical choice, syntax and collocations are the most frequently committed by the students. The source of the errors could be attributed to inter-lingual, intra-lingual interference or errors can be the integration of the source. Results were discussed and implications for the improvements of translation ability and recommendations for future research were presented.

Analysis of translation errors and evaluation of pre-editing rules for the translation of English news texts into Spanish with Lucy LT

In this paper we study the effect of pre-editing rules on the quality of the translations produced by the MT system Lucy LT when translating English news texts into Spanish. We carried out an error annotation of the first 200 segments of the News Crawl: articles from 2014 corpus and devised a set of 8 pre-editing rules. The application of these rules to a different set of segments from the same corpus results in a reduction of the word error rate of about 11%.

한국 공공기관 중문 웹사이트 오류 분석

This paper attempts to analyzes the translation errors in Korean-Chinese websites from Korean public institutions base on the Website Localization. While studies and organizations have made continuous efforts in improving the translation quality from public institutions over past 10 years, the actual translation works failed to achieve large advance as expected. With rapid advance of internet as well as information, the website translation has nowadays become more and more essential, the Korean-Chinese websites, however, still lagging behind in terms of translation quality. This article points out the necessity of translation errors analysis, proposes the frame of translation error analysis, and analyzed total 8 Korean public institutions. Based on analysis, a spectrum of errors from Korean-Chinese websites in Korean public institutions is presented. In the end the article summarizes that website translation quality can be improved by means of building translation terminology, utilizing translation tools, broadening the role of translators, sticking on correction process before and after website construction as well as taking advantage of group wisdom, etc.

Acquisition of English Collocations through Productive Skills—Analysis of Translation Errors

Even though the number of studies focused on English collocations has proliferated in the past twenty years, there is still considerable disagreement over a single unitary definition of collocations (Leśniewska, 2006, p. 1; Barfield & Gyllstad, 2009, p. 23), which is why the distinction between collocations, idioms and free word combinations is relatively blurry. Collocations play a major role in foreign language acquisition as they increase the language proficiency of the speaker. This paper is a continuation of the research on acquisition of English collocations as a part of an LSP course, conducted among the native speakers of Croatian in June 2013. The conducted analysis was intended to determine to what extent the general English language proficiency affects the knowledge of collocations in the LSP and how and to which extent the congruence of collocations affects the types of errors in translation tasks. Since the previous research showed that productive (translation) tasks pose a bigger challenge for language acquirers than receptive skills (Mustapic & Malenica, 2013), this paper has provided a detailed analysis of translation errors. The results show a need for didactic improvements in terms of new teaching materials and exercises that would develop productive skills and facilitate acquisition of collocations, both in general language and language for specific purposes.

A linguistically motivated taxonomy for Machine Translation error analysis

A detailed error analysis is a fundamental step in every natural language processing task, as to be able to diagnose what went wrong will provide cues to decide which research directions are to be followed. In this paper we focus on error analysis in Machine Translation (MT). We significantly extend previous error taxonomies so that translation errors associated with Romance language specificities can be accommodated. Furthermore, based on the proposed taxonomy, we carry out an extensive analysis of the errors generated by four different systems: two mainstream online translation systems Google Translate (Statistical) and Systran (Hybrid Machine Translation), and two in-house MT systems, in three scenarios representing different challenges in the translation from English to European Portuguese. Additionally, we comment on how distinct error types differently impact translation quality.