At First Sight: Paratextual Elements In The English Translations Of La Plaça Del Diamant.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Catalan novel La plaça del Diamant (1962) by Mercè Rodoreda has been translated into English twice.The first translation was done by Eda O'Shiel and published in the UK in 1967 under the title The Pigeon Girl.The second one was published in New York in 1981, and was translated by David Rosenthal with the title The Times of the Doves.Since its second edition in 1986, the North American translation replaced the British one to the point of its disappearance from the market.This article has the purpose to analyze the paratextual differences between the two translations as well as the translation/transformation of cultural and historical references present in the Catalan novel.This analysis will allow to discuss the concrete impact on the way Rodoreda's novel my be received and perceived among English-speaking audiences in the span of fourteen years, and to argue that the reception of a foreign culture is shaped and reshaped by translations and retranslations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".