Poetry Translating as Expert Action Processes, priorities and networks

Chapter 5. Five translators translate 

5.2.3 Data analysis

Analysis follows methods piloted in Jones (2006b: 65). The transcript was first di-

vided into ‘tape-units’ according to tape-counter number, each representing an

average 4.6 seconds of tape time^3 (TU on transcripts, tu in counts). Thus the exam-

ple transcript in Figure 25 spans TU95–TU114 of Fleur’s Draft 1, or the 1½ min-

utes or so when she wrote Lines 6–7^4 of her Version 1 (shown in Figure 26).

TU95 Yeah.

MICRO-SEQUENCE

Lexis Dr1/#5

MICRO-SEQUENCE Unidentied

MICRO-SEQUENCE

Spontaneous change

MICRO-

SEQUENCE

Lexis Dr1/#6 MICRO-SEQUENCE

Intertextuality

Dr1/#1

MICRO-

SEQUENCE

Image Dr1/#1

MICRO-SEQUENCE Spontaneous change

MICRO-SEQUENCE Lexis Dr1/#7

MICRO-SEQUENCE Spontaneous change

TU97 joy

TU98#

TU99# [als rook is] as smoke, but literally it [hing om ons heen] would be,

TU100 you know, kind of hung around us, but I don’t really like

that, so...

TU101 I’ll put it [= write hung around], but it’s like it’s...

TU102 he oen uses that, you know, it’s like a sort of proprio sensu

thing

TU103 where he’s inside the situation, and there’s like this negotiation

TU106 So it’s like that being in, being in, and so -

TU107 anyway, so I’ll leave that [= hung around] there. [buiten is] outside

TU108 #

TU109 [de is] the...

TU110 [de kleine kou van is] the nip... something nip of -

TU111 [for het najaar] I’ll go for autumn. Maybe fall.

TU112 [wij waren is] we were

TU113 [tevreden is] content.

TU114 # KEY

[ ] = researcher’s comments

italics = source/target text

underline = stressed, emphasised

TU104 between the self and the surroundings, and this is maybe one of

those ones as well,

TU105 not quite, but it’s like trekt hij zijn omtrek af [= from other poem], oh my

goodness.

TU96 Okay, [geluk is] happiness but it’s again joy maybe, depending on...

MACRO-SEQUENCE

Dr1/RT2/Ma6

MACRO-SEQUENCE

Dr1/RT2/Ma5

MICRO-SEQUENCE Scan

double-underline italic = text written down

# = pause  2 sec

Figure 25. Toen wij: extract from think-aloud protocol (Fleur, Draft 1)

3. All time values cited are estimates derived from tape-unit counts, rounded to the nearest
   minute.


4. ‘Line’ (capitalized) always refers to one of the 11 source-poem lines (Figure 23).