La tendencia hacia la simplificación en el discurso especializado y no-especializado: ampliando el alcance de los estudios de traducción basados en corpus al análisis multidiscursivo

This paper intends to contribute research on the simplification hypothesis by incorporating a multi-discourse analysis. The study compares non-specialized and academic specialized discourse with aim of describing their similarities difference in terms syntactic stylistic simplification. Considering two variables (non-specialized/specialized original/translated texts) allows for examination which has greater influence tendency towards According adopted corpus-based methodology, four corpora are compiled, including original translated English texts representing discourse. Then, simplification-related features (lexical variety, lexical density, mean sentence length, use subordination non-finite sentences) determined identified each corpus. comparison results across different shows signs both types However, presents linguistic features, suggesting that is more related type than or nature analyzed texts.