Simplification Reviewed: A Corpus Based Study of Urdu Language Specialized Translated Genres
Keywords:
translation universals, simplification, specialized translation, genre specific, parallel and comparable corpus, target languageAbstract
Based on the research paradigm of translation universals and analyzed within the methodological framework of corpus linguistics this research has investigated the relevance of the translation universals hypothesis of simplification for the English, Urdu language pair genre specific parallel, comparable corpus (USTC). The corpus compiled for this study consisted of three genres i.e legal statutes (LSC), newspaper articles (NSC), and academic prose (ASC). The analytical framework to investigate the translation specific linguistic traits was adapted from Zanettin(2013). The analysis has revealed that the translated Urdu component (TUT) in USTC has shown a de simplifying tendency for all the linguistic measures. The findings can be attributed to the genre specific nature of the specialized translated texts and the typological features of the Urdu source target language. The study would add to the existing knowledge of translators, post-editors, trainers, contrastive genre analysts, terminology banks, and pedagogy developers in the domain of translation studies and machine translation.
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