English Noun+Adj compound adjectives containing an intensifying metaphor (e.g. crystal-clear) pose particular challenges for French translation, due in part to the absence of a direct equivalent ...construction. Our study examines morphosyntactic and conceptual-semantic translation procedures that capture how these challenges are resolved. We also explore the little-investigated aspect of translation variation (the number of different solutions for each item). We analyze the potential effects of two factors: the presence or absence of figurative intensification and the items’ frequency of use in English. Our results indicate that translators prefer different morphosyntactic procedures for different compound subtypes. Overall, an adjective constituent is most frequently retained, although complete reformulations with a noun or verb also occur. Semantically, the intensifying meaning is often rendered non-figuratively, depending on what is available in idiomatic French usage. Intensification is also frequently dropped. Translation variation is remarkably high, due in part to extensive use of near-synonyms. High-frequency items do not appear to converge on a smaller number of translations, but instead provide more opportunities for diversification.
The issues of teaching technical French and technical translation in FOS courses are whatwe aim to discuss in this thesis. To do this, we first examine the actual issues that arise in thetechnical ...specialty FOS classes that we are dealing with. In this way, we will try to address the issue,"Is there a specificity of technical education in a foreign language?" The existence or absence oftechnical language we'll quickly go over a few relevant notions concerning translation theory andhow it relates to teaching it in the paragraphs that follow. We conducted an experiment based onthese hypotheses on fifty second-year students at the Faculty of Mechanics and Technology of theUniversity of Pitesti, Romania, to determine whether they also hold true. In the end we drew our ownconclusions on this subject.
In the process of deciding upon an appropriate equivalent for a legal term, the translator can choose between several possible strategies. The goal of the article is to analyse the translation ...strategies of French and Czech legal terms that do not have a direct equivalent in accessible terminographic sources of the target language. Among the possible strategies, it deals in particular with literal translation, functional equivalence and descriptive. It observes that all of the three strategies are used, to a greater or lesser extent, by the analysed terminographic sources and seeks to point out the problems that the use of each of the previously mentioned strategies may cause.
The paper focuses on time marks that may be detected in common law agreements and the translation issues they imply. In the first section, the author discusses the relation between time and law. The ...legal time governs the social time, as it ensures order and security. If memory is the manifestation of the legal past, the promise is the expression of the legal future. Depending on the legal culture taken into account, the legislator’s time may be more or less important than the time of the judge. The second section of the paper deals with time avatars that may be identified at the macrotextual level. The contract is understood as a promise that becomes obligation. The legal time is also expressed in contracts by the predictive capability of the parties, its acceleration and backwardness, its finiteness. The last section is an analysis of the translation of terms, collocations and metaphors expressing time in common law contracts.
Proper names and realia are an integral part of literary translation. Often, they are intertwined and lexemes denoting realia are linguistically realized in the form of propria. The main aim of the ...article is to determine when proper names, within the transfer of literary text into another cultural environment, are approached as a translatological problem of realia. The article is based on their cultural characteristics, zero equiva¬lence and high association potential. We disagree with the assumption of many authors that anthroponyms do not belong to the cathegory of realia and therefore we also use examples from practice to confirm it.
The translation of Propertius II. 15. plays a prominent role in the Latin poems of Babits’ Erato (Ovid Amores I. 5. has a similar role as part of these two elegies’ symmetrical pair). This is the ...first and only appearance of this Propertius translation in Babits’ oeuvre, but his relationship to the classical author is not unprecedented. The name of Propertius also appears in Babits’ correspondence and in his works about literary history, but he also worked with poems of Propertius during his Latin teaching career. This article primarily seeks to answer the question of what source Babits may have used for his translation, and whether there are connections between the sources or other translations of Babits’.
Nevera po česky Gavurová, Miroslava
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2022, Letnik:
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Ever since Cicero's distinction between the Ut interpres and Ut orator methods, the problem of fidelity in translation has been addressed by many translation scholars. By comparing the Slovak and ...Czech translations of Cormac McCarthy՚s novel No Country for Old Men the paper seeks answers to the question of to what extent is fidelity to the original preserved in both translations. The analysis shows that the Slovak translator respects and preserves the language distinction that is to characterize novel characters. He follows the rules of the Slovak school of translation, namely the rule of formal identity which calls for the preservation of formal elements that have a certain function. The functional use of standard and non-standard elements in Slovak translation at the places, where they were used in the original, respects the principles and guidelines of the Slovak school of translation. On the other hand, the Czech translation does not preserve the original style and uses non-standard forms where there were not used in the original. This way it ignores the language distinction among the novel characters. The reason why the Czech translator gave up on the distinction might be the conventions in the target culture and the target reader’s expectations that the Czech translator wants to meet.
In the form of independent bio-bibliographic essays, they tell about the life and work of the first Turkmen translators from the Russian language and some related Turkic languages who worked in the ...20s of the last century, such as: Bekgi Emirovich Berdiyev (1898–1970), Kumushaly Boriyev (1896 – 1937), Muhammet Geldiyev (1889 – 1931), Allaguly Shazadayevich Garakhanov (1892 – 1938), Seyitmyrat Ovezbayev (1889 – 1937), Khalmyrat Sakhetmyradov (1898 – 1938), Gurban Sakhedov (1905 – 1938), Gubaidulla Abdullayevich Khusainov (1892 – 1948). The essays provide certain details and significant sub-kindlines that characterize them as personalities and figures of their era.
Copi's work twists the categories and units of the traditional literary story, from temporality, causality, and speed to its verisimilitude. The categories of author, writer, and name are ...particularly affected by this procedure: narrators and characters named Copi, Pico, Raúl Damonte, Darío Copi, cartoonists, and writers produce a multiplication of the proper name. Following a qualitative analysis methodology that takes elements from close reading, this article analyses the novels El Uruguayo and La ciudad de las ratas, by the Argentine author Copi, in the light of the theoretical relationship between translation, proper name, and body. As it turns out, through the figure of the translator, these two novels problematise the practice of naming, the relations of referentiality, and the limited authority of the authorial position. In both novels, translation appears not as the practice of passing from one language to another, as a search for the mediatisation of a text, but as a recognition of what is untranslatable in the relationship between things and their names. It will be concluded that, in these two novels, guaranteeing the transmission of an experience and a language through translation poses a fundamental problem: the impossibility of translating and the will to do so do not contradict each other but are transformed into a reflection on names. Names thus fulfil a condensatory function: they are the empty place left by writing and are the putting into action of a naming that is not naming but translating.
This study attempts to analyse the stylistic and cultural role of diminutives using examples from the short story collection The Last Wish by A. Sapkowski. With the rising popularity of the computer ...game series as well as the Netflix series based on The Witcher Saga, so rose the interest of the English-speaking world in the Slavic culture. The role of diminutives can present a serious linguistic and cultural barrier for any translator as they may or may not be present in the translator’s native tongue. Translating a text to a language in which diminutives play a significantly smaller role than in the original requires not only a robust lexical knowledge, but also the ability to express each of the four distinct functions of diminutives in an appropriate manner. The method chosen for this study involves compiling all the diminutives and hypocorisms from a given short story and comparing them with corresponding phrases chosen by the translator, as well as evaluating the techniques used and providing alternatives where applicable. The authors believe that a close look at the translation of diminutives will allow the public to fully appreciate the depth and nuance of meaning characterising the work steeped in Polish and Slavic tradition to such extent.
