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Dekker, Bonnie (2014)

Anglicisms in translation: An analysis of English loans in Dutch original and translated cookbooks

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

This thesis analyses the English borrowings in a corpus of Dutch original and translated cookbooks. The main purpose is to determine whether translators’ tendency to explain and clarify causes them to produce translations that contain fewer anglicisms than similar original Dutch texts. The results show that the anglicisms found in the translations and original texts are similar in terms of type, function, and degree of conventionality, but the total number of anglicisms is larger for the corpus of original texts.

translation studies

anglicisms

corpus linguistics

Author

Dekker, Bonnie

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Translation in Theory and Practice (Dutch/English)

Supervisors

Zeven, Katinka
Dorst, Lettie

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en