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The Excitement of Doing / Translating Science: Emotivity in Polish and English Research Articles and Popular Science Texts

There has been little research in emotiveness in academic discourse (see e.g. Bednarek 2008, Łyda 2013) and even less attention paid to the problem of ‘emotive shifts’ in the process of translation. While the former results from the widespread belief in the neutrality and objectivity of science, the latter seems to be derived from the tacit assumption that translators generally tend to preserve the sense of the source language text and that their presence in the translation is marginal and negligible. The present paper addresses both of these issues. It takes as its starting point a cross-linguistic study on emotive markers in Polish and English research articles (Łyda 2013; Łyda 2014), which demonstrates differing patterns in the distribution of these markers in the two languages. Next, it moves to an analysis of emotive markers in a parallel corpus of popular science texts compiled from English popular science journal Scientific American and Polish Wiedza i życie. The third study concentrates on shifts in the process of translating English emotive markers in Scientific American articles in its Polish edition only to show a tendency of neutralising strong emotion markers in the target text.