ProZ.com Translation Article Knowledgebase

Articles about translation and interpreting

Article Categories

Art of Translation and Interpreting (370)

Business of Translation and Interpreting (279)

Language Specific (186)

ProZ.com Site Features (50)

Specialties (108)

Technology (192)

Miscellaneous (111)

Search Articles

Advanced Search

About the Articles Knowledgebase

ProZ.com has created this section with the goals of:

Further enabling knowledge sharing among professionals

Providing resources for the education of clients and translators

Offering an additional channel for promotion of ProZ.com members (as authors)

We invite your participation and feedback concerning this new resource.

More info and discussion >

Site Menu

Submission Guidelines

FAQ

Recommended Articles

» Articles Overview » Featured Authors » Karen Vincent-Jones (X)

Karen Vincent-Jones (X)

See this author's ProZ.com profile

Articles by this Author

» 'Tulip Fever' by Deborah Moggach; a comparison of the English original and its French and Spanish translations

By Karen Vincent-Jones (X) | Published 04/18/2007 | French | Recommendation:

This article looks at a best-selling English novel and its translations into French and Spanish. The books are looked at as publications, in terms of their presentation and the publishers' marketing strategies. The style of the different versions is compared, using statistical analysis, in terms of their sentence structure and readability. Certain key passages are compared in detail, and any differences analysed. The conclusions are that the Spanish version is more faithful to the English original than the French, and is targeted at a more sophisticated audience. The French version often differs from the original, omitting descriptions, and is targeted as 'women's fiction' to a more popular audience.

full article icon_Print

printer version


	X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... Username: Password: Forgot your password? Or create a new account