Erratum: Structural repetitions and discourse relations in English-Turkish translations of TED talks

Year 2024, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 259 - 260, 31.12.2024

Özgür Şen Bartan

The original article was published on December 18, 2022. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/literacytrek/issue/73699/1119118

Erratum Note

Upon the author’s request, content related amendments for the previously published article (see Bartan, 2022) were included in the current erratum. These amendments are listed in Table 1.

Abstract

This study attempts to analyse translations of the discourse relations of the arguments with structural repetitions in the TED-MDB corpora consisting three texts (English) and their translations (Turkish). The main questions addressed in this paper are: a) Are connective relations used explicitly or implicitly together with repetitions? b) Which discourse relations are being used with repetitions? c) Do translators translate repetitions or omit them? The analysis shows that speakers of TED Talks mostly prefer to use these repetitions in their speeches with implicit discourse relations (66.6%), and translators translate them through implicit forms (54.8%). Moreover, the dominantly explicit usage of and in repetitive structures shows that the relations can be associated with an explicit connective and. Accordingly, ExpansionConjunction (addition) relations are frequently being used with repetitions at the beginning (73.8%). Also, mostly, the translators tend to omit repetitions at the beginning (92.9%).

Keywords

TED-Multilingual Discourse Bank, Discourse relations, Implicitness, Translations of repetitions

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