of the First Workshop on Style in GenAI-Translated Content (StyGenAI)

‘Actually’ in translation: The case of English and Slovak

This pilot study examines how the English adverb actually is rendered in Slovak translation, drawing on a corpus of literary texts and their translations. As a multifunctional item, actually performs a range of syntactic and pragmatic functions in context, most notably those of emphasizer and disjunct. The analysis dra...

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF WRITING STYLES ON MACHINE TRANSLATION

A Study of translation universals in subtitles translated from Thai to English: a lexical bundle approach

Translation involves negotiating between preserving source-language features and adapting them to target-language norms, a process believed to give rise to Translation Universals (TUs), linguistic features distinguishing translated from non-translated language. Previous TU research has focused primarily on written text...

Decoding Figurative Language in Journalism Translation: Human and LLM Translation of English-Vietnamese Metaphors

The increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in professional translation has reshaped multilingual news production. While prior research has reported gains in fluency and surface-level accuracy, limited attention has been paid to LLMs’ ability to translate figurative language, which plays a key role in meaning co...

Selected Grammatical Issues in the Silesian Translations of World Literary Classics

This study analyses and discusses word-formation, inflectional, and syntactic differences in contemporary translations of world literature into Silesian. The analysis is based on a corpus of nine extensive literary texts translated by seven translators (G. Buchalik, J. Ciurlok, Z. Kadłubek, G. Kulik, M. Melon, M. Synia...

Structural features of collocations in translated and non-translated Lithuanian

In translated language research, Lithuanian is still an underrepresented language, although there are several parallel and comparable corpora which could be used as data sources in corpus-based translation studies. This paper aims to compare the structural features of abstract noun collocations in translated and non-tr...