arXiv:2501.12954cs.CL2025-01被引 4

乔伊斯《芬尼根守灵夜》的标点模式在翻译后仍基本保持不变,暗示其跨语言特性。

Punctuation patterns in "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce are largely translation-invariant

  • 通过分析标点间距的威布尔分布,发现该作品标点模式在多语种翻译中高度稳定。
  • 句子末尾标点间距呈现近乎完美的多重分形结构,目前文献中罕见。
  • 研究支持该作品是跨语言创作,适合对文学语言学与复杂系统感兴趣的读者。

自然语言文本的复杂性特征与标点规则密切相关。特别是标点间词数距离普遍遵循生存分析中的威布尔分布族。然而,决定分布形态的两个参数能区分不同语言。这一强约束使得原文翻译成其他语言后,标点分布的量化特征会趋同于目标语言。这些变化均发生在威布尔分布框架内,对应风险函数始终递增。但近期研究表明,乔伊斯的《芬尼根守灵夜》的威布尔分布极端特殊,其风险函数明显递减。同时,句末标点间距呈现出几乎完美的多重分形组织,迄今在文献中未见类似。本文基于该作品的荷兰语、法语、德语、波兰语、俄语等多个译本,发现其标点特征在翻译后仍保持高度一致性,与通常情况相反。这一现象或进一步证明《芬尼根守灵夜》在标点层面亦具跨语言性,契合乔伊斯的初衷。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The complexity characteristics of texts written in natural languages are significantly related to the rules of punctuation. In particular, the distances between punctuation marks measured by the number of words quite universally follow the family of Weibull distributions known from survival analyses. However, the values of two parameters marking specific forms of these distributions distinguish specific languages. This is such a strong constraint that the punctuation distributions of texts translated from the original language into another adopt quantitative characteristics of the target language. All these changes take place within Weibull distributions such that the corresponding hazard functions are always increasing. Recent previous research shows that James Joyce's famous "Finnegans Wake" is subject to such extreme distribution from the Weibull family that the corresponding hazard function is clearly decreasing. At the same time, the distances of sentence ending punctuation marks, determining the variability of sentence length, have an almost perfect multifractal organization, so far to such an extent found nowhere else in the literature. In the present contribution based on several available translations (Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian) of "Finnegans Wake", it is shown that the punctuation characteristics of this work remain largely translation invariant, contrary to the common cases. These observations may constitute further evidence that "Finnegans Wake" is a translinguistic work in this respect as well, in line with Joyce's original intention.

文学语言学多重分形跨语言

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