Lost in translation: Contributions of editors to the meanings of text

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 551-565

  Hartley, James ^a   Branthwaite, Alan ^b   Ganier, Frank ^c   Heurley, Laurent ^d  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ignition Marketing Research and Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Author's voice; Automatic translation; Non native speakers; Readability; Writing styles

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA ACQUISITION; FILE EDITORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; NATIVE SPEAKERS; STYLISTIC ANALYSES; WRITING STYLES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 34748905919     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506076392     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. H. Somers (ed.), Computers and Translation: a Translator's Guide ( Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2003 ).
2. D. Elliott, A. Hartley and E. Atwell, Rationale for a multilingual corpus for machine translation evaluation. In: D. Archer, P. Rayson, A. Wilson and T. McEnery (eds), Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 28-31 March 2003 (University of Lancaster, Lancaster, 2003) 191-200.
3. J. Allen, Post-editing. In: H. Somers (ed.), Computers and Translation: a Translator's Guide (Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2003) 297 - 317.
4. G. Klare, The Measurement of Readability ( Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1963 ).
5. M. Baker, Corpus-based translation studies: the challenges that lie ahead. In H. Somers (ed.), Terminology, LSP and Translation (Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1996) 175 - 86.
6. E. Steiner, Intralingual and interlingual versions of a text - how specific is the notion of translation? In: E. Steiner and C. Yallop (eds), Exploring Translation and Multi-Lingual Text Production: Beyond Content (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2001) 161 - 90.
7. J. Burrough-Boenisch, NS and NNS scientists' amendments of Dutch scientific English and their impact on hedging, English for Specific Purposes 24 (1) (2005) 25 - 39.
8. A. Duszak, Academic discourse and intellectual styles, Journal of Pragmatics 21 (3) (1994) 291 - 313.
9. K. Hyland, Hedging in Scientific Research Articles ( John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1998 ).
10. E. Rowley-Jolivet and S. Carter-Thomas, Genre awareness and rhetorical appropriacy: manipulation of information structure by NS and NNS scientists in the international conference setting, English for Specific Purposes 24 (1) (2005) 41 - 64.
11. P. Elbow, Everyone Can Write ( Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000 ).
12. J. Hartley, M.J.A. Howe and W.J. McKeachie, Writing through time: longitudinal studies of the effects of new technology on writing, British Journal of Educational Technology 32 (2) (2001) 141 - 51.
13. C.M. Tardy, Expressions of disciplinarity and individuality in a multimodal genre, Computers and Composition 22 (3) (2006) 319 - 36.
14. J. Hartley, J.W. Pennebaker and C. Fox, Abstracts, introductions and discussions: how far do they differ in style? Scientometrics 57 (3) (2003) 389 - 98.
15. B.S. Tabachnick and L.S. Fidell, Using Multivariate Statistics (4 th edition) ( Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 2001 ).
16. J. Hartley, Could this be easier to read? Tools for evaluating text. In: J. Hartley and A. Branthwaite (eds), The Applied Psychologist (2 nd edition) (Open University Press, Buckingham, 2000) 123 - 4.
17. J.A. Loxterman, I.L. Beck and M.G. McKeown, The effects of thinking aloud during reading on students' comprehension of more or less coherent text, Reading Research Quarterly 29 (4) (1994) 353 - 68.
18. B. Babych and A. Hartley, Modelling Legitimate Translation Variation for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Text Quality (2004). Available at: http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search (accessed 3 March 2006 ).
19. A. Altun and A. Rakicioglu, A corpus approach to abstracts in academic writing, Eurasian Journal of Educational Research 5 (17) (2004) 1 - 13.
20. M. Clyne, Cultural differences in the organisation of academic texts, Journal of Pragmatics 11 (2) (1987) 211 - 41.
21. P.M. Martin, A genre analysis of English and Spanish research paper abstracts in experimental social sciences, English for Specific Purposes 22 (1) (2003) 25 - 43.
22. B. Samraj, An exploration of a genre set: research article abstracts and introductions in two disciplines, English for Specific Purposes 24 (2005) 141 - 56.
23. C. Schaffner, The role of genre for translation. In: A. Trosborg (ed.), Analysing Profession Genres (Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2000) 209 - 23.
24. N. Hardy, Editing science translations: when to stop? ( Programme description of Plenary Session 5, 9th General Assembly and Conference, European Association of Science Editors, Krakow, Poland, 18 June, 2006 ).
25. Blackwell, Author Services (current). Available at: www. blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp (accessed 12 December 2006 ).
26. S. Bassnett, Translation Studies in the UK (2006). Available at: www.llas.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=2497 (accessed 26 April 2006 ).
27. J. Flowerdew, Attitudes of journal editors to non-native speaker contributions, TESOL Quarterly 35 (1) (2001) 121 - 50.