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Stylometryczna niewidzialność tłumacza

Publication date: 20.02.2014

Przekładaniec, 2013, Issue 27 – Przekład prozy, pp. 61 - 87

https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864PC.13.004.1286

Authors

Jan Rybicki
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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Stylometryczna niewidzialność tłumacza

Abstract

Translator’s Stylometric Invisibility

In a corpus of the writings of several authors, each author being represented by several texts, it is usually enough to compare the similarities between the frequencies of some 100 most frequent words (obviously, these usually include various function words rather than content words) in these texts to group the texts correctly by the authors. This paper investigates the phenomenon that translated texts also tend to be grouped by the original author rather than by the translator despite the fact that the most frequent words in a corpus of translations in no way maintain a one-to-one relationship with those in the original corpus. This is illustrated with examples of experiments performed on a variety of parallel sets of literary texts in English, French and Polish.

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Information: Przekładaniec, 2013, Issue 27 – Przekład prozy, pp. 61 - 87

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Stylometryczna niewidzialność tłumacza

English:

Stylometryczna niewidzialność tłumacza

Authors

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 20.02.2014

Article status: Open

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