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• Title:
  Are Translators Really Subservient? Empirical Evidence from Lexical Transfer and Language Prestige in Curaçao
• Creator:
  Parkins-Ferrón, Courtney G.
• Contributor:
  Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain;
  courtneyparkinsferron@gmail.com
• Description:
  This paper examines whether translator subservience is generalisable among translators. Taking professional Curaçaoan Papiamentu translators as a case study built on a much larger work, the research looks at issues of subservience from the perspective of agency in the English-to-Papiamentu lexical transfer process and at the influence of language prestige. The results show instances in which the translators reported more lexical transfers than did the non-translators. The results also reveal an overlooked translator agency in the process rather than translator subservience, in view of the fact that in this process they are on the “frontline”, pre-empting whatever decisions the official language planners make.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.07.29;
  2020.09.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;3;
  18
• Subject:
  agency;
  language prestige;
  lexical transfer;
  Papiamentu translation;
  sociology of translation
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38348 ;
  10.18778/1731-7533.18.3.01
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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