párhuzamokparallels

Párhuzamokparallels is a scholarly term used to describe the study of parallel elements across languages and media, focusing on how similar structures, themes, or metaphors appear in parallel texts and translations from Hungarian into English and vice versa. The term combines the Hungarian word párhuzamok (parallels) with the English word parallels, signaling a bilingual analytic approach.

Origins and scope: The term emerged in late 2010s within cross-linguistic and translation studies as a methodological blending of linguistic parallelism and literary parallelism. It is not tied to a single, standardized theory but rather to a family of practices that share an interest in identifying and interpreting parallel phenomena across languages.

Concept: Párhuzamokparallels treats parallels as cognitive and cultural anchors that enable cross-language interpretation, allowing researchers to trace correspondences in syntax, rhetoric, narrative progression, and imagery across languages and media. It emphasizes both linguistic alignment and thematic resonance, and it often foregrounds the interaction between form and meaning in bilingual or multilingual contexts.

Methods: The approach uses corpus-based alignment, translation equivalence analysis, comparative discourse analysis, and cross-language metaphor mapping. Researchers may work with bilingual corpora, translation memories, and parallel texts to identify recurring patterns of parallelism and their interpretive significance.

Applications and critique: Applications appear in translation studies, comparative literature, language pedagogy, and AI multilingual modeling to improve machine translation evaluation and cross-cultural understanding. Some scholars warn of overgeneralization from limited data, potential biases toward Western literary paradigms, and difficulties in distinguishing linguistic from literary parallels.