Translation between L2 Acquisition and L1 Attrition: Anaphora Resolution in Italian by English-Italian Trainee Translators

Autor/inn/en	Milicevic, Maja; Kraš, Tihana
Titel	Translation between L2 Acquisition and L1 Attrition: Anaphora Resolution in Italian by English-Italian Trainee Translators
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 38 (2017) 1, S.21-42 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amu070
Schlagwörter	Translation; Second Language Learning; Control Groups; Second Languages; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Form Classes (Languages); Metalinguistics; Pragmatics; Language Skill Attrition; Italian; Native Language; English (Second Language); Ambiguity (Semantics); Sentence Structure; Applied Linguistics; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics; Comparative Analysis; Student Evaluation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Analytischer Sprachbau; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Pragmalinguistik; Sprachverfall; Italienisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung
Abstract	This article reports on the findings of an empirical study that relates translation studies and research on language acquisition/attrition by looking at the interpretation of overt pronominal subjects, previously found to be problematic in both domains. The focus is on the resolution of intra-sentential anaphora and cataphora in Italian by two groups of native speakers, English-Italian trainee translators and a control group of non-translators. The participants did a picture selection task in which they had to identify the antecedents of third person null and overt subject pronouns in ambiguous anaphoric and cataphoric conditions. Contrary to what was expected based on previous work, proposing that translators undergo a form of first language attrition due to extended exposure to a second language, trainee translators did not exhibit evidence of overt pronoun overgeneralization (i.e. second language influence). In fact, they selected pragmatically inappropriate antecedents to a lesser extent than the control group, leading to the conclusion that in language comprehension, metalinguistic awareness can override other influences affecting translators. (As Provided).
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