Corpus stylistics in translation-oriented text analysis: approaching the work of Denton Welch from a functionalist perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Braga, Guilherme da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• DOI: 10.21814/diacritica.580
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/101978; https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.580
• topic: Corpus Linguistics; Corpus Stylistics; Literary Translation; Translation Studies; Functionalism; Denton Welch; Linguística de corpus; Estilística de corpus; Tradução literária; Estudos de tradução; Funcionalismo; Denton Welch

!is article is an e"ort towards interpreting the #ndings of a corpus-based stylistic analysis of the short narrative “Sickert at St Peter’s” (1942), written by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915–1948), within the larger framework for translation-oriented text analysis presented by Christiane Nord in Textanalyse und Übersetzen (2009). !e aim is to explore both the theoretical possibilities and the practical applications of a corpus-based approach to the lexical analysis phase of Nord’s model from a literary translation perspective, in which style and word choice play a critical role. Once the statistical #ndings of the corpus-based analysis are presented, the 25 highest-ranking keywords in the text are analyzed in context. Translation briefs and literary translation in general are discussed, and a global pre-translational strategy for translating “Sickert at St Peter’s” is presented. By way of conclusion, it is argued that the method described promotes valuable insights for literary interpretation and serves as a practical aid in developing a pre-translational strategy for translating individual texts.