Degree of Creativity in Machine Translation
Abstract
Modern trends in tourism have an impact on the requirements for translation, both in terms of translating tourism texts and meeting the needs of the reading community. Creativity in translation becomes a challenge since translation of tourism text not only focuses on transferring the meaning but also the function of the text. The article focuses on the analysis of translation creativity applied in tourism texts using translation machines. The priority of the translation aspect in rendering the acceptability, fluency, novelty, and flexibility scope of the text decides translation creativity. It means that to translate a tourism text, a translator goes to great lengths to transfer the message of the text. The focus on translation creativity enables us to outline the set of basic translation strategies that are relevant in practice. Meanwhile, the degree of creativity results show that the translation in the Solo Calendar of Events appears to be a non-creative one.
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