{"id":518,"date":"2019-11-06T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/englishturku\/?p=518"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:38:59","slug":"trextuality-at-the-intersection-of-textual-scholarship-and-translation-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/englishturku\/2019\/11\/06\/trextuality-at-the-intersection-of-textual-scholarship-and-translation-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trextuality \u2013 at the intersection of textual scholarship and translation studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The XII annual colloquium of Variantti<\/em>, the Finnish network of\nresearchers working on textual scholarship and scholarly editing, was held on Friday,\n4 October 2019, at the University of Turku to foster interdisciplinarity between\ntextual scholarship and translation studies.The theme trextuality<\/em> encompassed textuality<\/em>,\ntransmission<\/em> and translation<\/em>, concepts central in both fields. In translation\nstudies, trextuality means going beyond the source-target text pair and in\ntextual scholarships, it refers to observing the transmission of texts across\nlanguages. Some fifty attendees heard eleven talks addressing trextual issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanja\nToropainen<\/strong> discussed the continuum of editions and\ntranslations behind Codex Westh <\/em>and its\nArs Morendi<\/em> part, which is a translation\nfrom German \u2013 except that the The Bible<\/em>\nquotations are translations from Swedish. Sara\nNorja<\/strong> pointed out that like many of early English texts, also The Mirror of Alchemy<\/em> is a translation \u2013\nthe source language of the various versions (Latin or French) can be deduced\nfrom how the alchemy-related terminology is translated. Niko Huttunen & Tuomas Juntunen<\/strong> explained that the forthcoming\nFinnish translation of The Bible<\/em> for\nmobile platforms will have vocabulary different from what the audience is accustomed\nto because the language is made understandable for 20-year-olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov talked about the long, <\/em>
multilingual transmission history of Robinson Crusoe.<\/em>
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Leena\nEilitt\u00e4<\/strong> discussed intertextuality in Herman Broch\u2019s works;\nfor example, Broch changed the title of his poem into Hille Mitternacht<\/em> (A clear midnight) after having translated Walt\nWhitman\u2019s A clear midnight<\/em> into\nGerman. Marja Sorvari<\/strong> addressed the\nintertwinedness writing, writing in a second language, and self-translation\nthrough the example of two translingual authors, Zinaida Lind\u00e9n and Polina Kopylova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of studying what changes in translation, Taivalkoski-Shilov<\/strong> showed how Friday\u2019s way of talking remains unchanged in the Finnish Robinson Crusoe<\/em> (re)translations even if translated indiretcly from English to German to Swedish to finally Finnish. Members of the Digilang<\/em> project Christophe Leblay, Maarit Koponen, Maarit Mutta, Anna Salmela, Leena Salmi & Mikko Suhonen<\/strong> showed examples of text editing process visualizations using tools such as GenographiX<\/em>: for example, A2-level writers proceed straightforwardly while C2-level producers make loops as they write and edit different parts of the text at different times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maarit Mutta showed how writing processes can be visualized.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Annamari\nKorhonen <\/strong>suggested that because something always\nchanges when a text is translated, translating is creative even with pragmatic\ntexts. Tuuli Ahonen <\/strong>demonstrated how\na translator cannot translate the whole film if one of the modes \u2013 picture,\ndialogue, music, or sound effects \u2013 is missing because the subtitles are part\nof the polysemiotic whole that the modes together make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minna\nSepp\u00e4nen & Outi Paloposki<\/strong> discussed how in the\nearly 19th<\/sup>-century Ancient Greek literature was translated into\nFinnish more to show off one\u2019s language skills than to produce beautiful\nFinnish translations. The day concluded with the perspective of a professional\ntranslator: Jaakko Kankaanp\u00e4\u00e4 <\/strong>shared\nhis observations on the differences, such as replacing racist vocaublary with\npolitically correct terminology, between various Finnish (re)translations of\nAgatha Christie\u2019s novels, including his own ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text and photos: Laura Ivaska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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