keine Angabe

In der Einleitung (S. 13–26) der hier zu besprechenden Monographie, die 2012 in Mainz als Promotionsschrift angenommen wurde, setzt sich die Verfasserin mit konzeptionellen und terminologischen Fragen auseinander und betrachtet insbesondere historiographische Aspekte der Translatologie und Probleme oder Zwänge der verschiedenen Herangehensweisen an ihren Untersuchungsgegenstand.

keine Angabe

Six translations into Swedish of Thomas Mann’s novel Buddenbrooks werecompared, focusing on strategies for translating the author’s use of Germandialects and language varieties, such as Low German, Bavarian and West Prussian.The analysis was based on seven defined strategies for translation of dialects andcomprised 20 excerpts of non-standard German in the original text.The analysis showed that translation of German dialect into standard Swedish andomission of the non-standard German text except in the translated text were thedominating strategies used by the six translators.Despite the six translations into Swedish, a complete translation of Mann’s novelhas not been produced in the target language until 2005, a century after thepublication of the first Swedish version.

<p>The concept of equivalence has for many years attracted attention of researchers in variousdisciplines: from mathematics to philosophy to translation theory to terminology. This thesisintends to survey the concept of equivalence in three subject fields all of which focus onlanguages and communication, namely: translation theory, lexicography and terminology. Thepurpose of the paper is twofold: to investigate the theoretical grounds of equivalence in thesethree disciplines and to survey the methods and practices of establishing equivalence inmultilingual terminology work. The results of the theoretical investigation are summed up onthe basis of the terminological concept analysis. Four concepts systems are structured andpresented in the form of concept diagrams (two for translation theory, one for lexicography andone for terminology). The concept systems give an overview of the current understanding ofequivalence in the three subject fields and expose the relations between equivalence and anumber of related concepts. The central theoretical question of the thesis whether equivalencecould be considered the same concept in all three disciplines is answered on the basis of theresults of the terminological concept analysis. The empirical investigation is carried out in theform of case studies in the frame of multilingual terminology work. It focuses on the problemsof establishing equivalence, of determining the degree of equivalence as well as on the methodsand practices of presenting equivalents in various terminological resources.</p>

This study investigates strategies used when translating compound nouns from German to Swedish. The source text translated and used for the analysis stems from the travel book Couchsurfing im Iran. Meine Reise hinter verschlossene Türen by Stephan Orth (2015). The focus of the study is twofold: 1) examining established compounds and 2) ad hoc compounds. The quantitative part of the analysis is based on Fleischer/Barz’ (2007) morphological classification of compound nouns and Vinay/Darbelnet’s (1995/2004) translation procedures, and also forms the basis for the qualitative analysis. The quantitative analysis shows that while nearly 60% of the established compound nouns were translated literally, quite a large number were rendered using other strategies, mainly paraphrases with nominal phrases. The translations of the ad hoc compounds showed the reverse pattern: only 36% were translated literally, while nearly 60% were translated with nominal phrases. The qualitative analysis suggests four major explanations for these shifts. The first is morphological limitation, where the Swedish language in some instances does not allow a certain word to be used as a compound modifier. The second is language preference, where a tendency towards a more verbal paraphrase in Swedish was noticed. The third is based on Toury’s law of growing standardization, which states that translations tend to be more explicit, in this case preferring longer and more transparent paraphrases to denser compounds. The fourth explanation is the lexical gap where ad hoc compounds proved to be particularly difficult to translate when one of their units did not have a direct counterpart in Swedish.

This study concerns the translation of noun phrases and their postmodifiers from Swedish into German. More specifically, the aim is to investigate how Swedish prepositional and clausal (both finite and non-finite) postmodifiers are translated into German, to determine whether there aredifferences between the languages in how they structure their noun phrases. The material for this study comes from a popular science book and its translation. 282 instances of postmodifiers were found in the source text. The majority of them were prepositional modifiers. Seven translationstrategies were identified: prepositional, genitival, adjectival modifiers and appositions, clauses(relative and non-finite), compounds and paraphrases.The results show that the different Swedish postmodifiers were most commonly translated into the same kind of modifier, such as prepositional modifiers being translated into prepositionalmodifiers. However prepositional modifiers were also commonly translated into genitivalmodifiers, with 36 percent, which suggests that German prefers genitival modifiers to some degree. No new clausal modifiers were added in the German target text and 39 percent weretranslated using other strategies than clausal structures. This indicates that clausal modifiers are not as commonly used in German as they are in Swedish.

This study is corpus-based and concerns the translation of the German modal particles ja, doch and wohl into Swedish and English. The aim is to investigate how these modal particles are translated into Swedish and English, i.e. what translation strategies are used, in order to find possible differences in translation between both the two target languages and between the different modal particles. The material comes from the LEGS corpus and consists of 247 source-text instances of the modal particles ja, doch and wohl, and their translations into both Swedish and English. The target texts were categorized into the translation strategies: direct translation, omission, transposition and paraphrase. The instances of transposition were further divided into the categories adverb, verb and interjection. This study finds that for English the most frequent strategy is omission, while for Swedish it is direct translation. This suggests that the meanings of the German modal particles are more often disregarded in the English target texts and thus not transferred. Furthermore, for Swedish the direct translations ju, nog and väl, are the most common translations for the German modal particles ja, doch and wohl. As for English, when the modal particles were translated, they were most often translated through transposition with the adverbs probably, after all and of course.

Übersetzung als Phänomen hat wahrscheinlich existiert seit Menschen verschiedene Sprachen gesprochen haben. Es ist bekannt, dass sie zumindest seit den Römern existiert, weil sie regelmäßig griechische Werke übersetzten (Munday 2012:19). Trotz ihrer langen Geschichte ist Übersetzungswissenschaft ein neues Fach der Linguistik und es gibt mehr oder weniger keine Regeln oder Normen in Bezug darauf, wie man klar und korrekt übersetzen soll. Es gibt in gewissen Bereichen der Übersetzungswissenschaft einige Regeln und Normen, aber der Übersetzer hat allgemein ziemlich freie Hand. Infolgedessen werden verschiedene Aspekte eines Texts stärker oder schwächer betont, was unten weiter beschreiben wird.

La question directrice qui nous guide tout au long de ce travail est le "principium redendae rationis sufficientis" (le principe de la raison suffisante) sur la traduction duquel Heidegger mène ses réflexions au sujet de la traduction sans le mettre lui-même en relation avec la problématique de la traduction. En d’autres termes, la question que nous nous posons est de savoir si quelque chose comme la traduction est possible, quelle est la raison déterminante de cette possibilité et pourquoi en général une telle chose est possible plutôt qu’impossible. La question de la possibilité de la traduction au sens de ratio sufficiens, est une question qui porte sur l’essence de la traduction en tant que lieu où l’identité et la non-identité à la fois se thématisent et se problématisent. Nous nous référons afin de répondre à cette question directrice à la phénoménologie d’Edmund Husserl. Indépendamment du fait que Husserl lui-même, comme nous le montrons, pense à une telle possibilité de la traduction, l’intérêt de la phénoménologie de Husserl pour la théorie de la traduction consiste à proposer un instrument formidable d’analyse linguistique, dont la spécificité ne consiste pas dans l’analyse de la forme telle qu’elle est, mais dans l’analyse de la forme à partir du contenu de la conscience dans laquelle toute forme a soit son équivalent conscientiel conscient selon le mode intentionnel de la conscience, soit est explicable à partir d’un tel contenu. L’idée et la possibilité d’une recherche phénoménologique de la traduction se réalisent dans le présent travail à partir de l’exploration d’une telle conscience qui se présente en même temps comme une conscience traductionelle. / The central thought of the present work is the "principium redendae rationis sufficientis", the translation of which Heidegger himself dealt with in his reflections on translation, but without drawing these in relation to the issue of translation. In other words, we raise the following question: If something like translation is possible, what is then the decisive reason and why is translation more likely possible than impossible? The question with regard to the possibility of translation in the sense of ratio sufficiens enquires about the essence of translation as a specific location in which identity, but also non-identity, are simultaneously problematized and thematised. In order to elucidate our initial question, we refer to Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. Irrespective of the fact that Husserl himself thought of a such possibility of translation, as we intend to show, the interest of Husserl’s phenomenology for a theory of translation consists in offering a formidable instrument of linguistic analysis whose specificity does not rely on a purely formal analysis, but on an analysis of form deriving from the content of consciousness, in which each form, according to the intentional mode of consciousness, is either disposing of its conscious equivalent or is explicable through a such content. The idea and the possibility of a phenomenological translation research is to carry out in this present work starting from the investigation of a such consciousness, that presents itself at the same time as a translation-consciousness. / Der dieser Arbeit zugrundeliegende Leitgedanke ist das "principium redendae rationis sufficientis", mit dessen Übersetzung sich Heidegger bereits in seinen Betrachtungen zu Übersetzung befasst hat, ohne jedoch diese selbst auf die eigentliche Übersetzungsproblematik zu beziehen. Mit anderen Worten fragen wir uns: Wenn etwas wie Übersetzung möglich ist, was ist der entscheidende Grund dafür und weshalb ist etwas derartiges vielmehr möglich als unmöglich? Die Frage nach der Möglichkeit der Übersetzung im Sinne der ratio sufficiens fragt nach dem Wesen der Übersetzung als Ort, an dem sich Identität und Nicht-Identität gleichzeitig thematisieren und problematisieren. Um unsere Ausgangsfrage zu erforschen, beziehen wir uns auf die Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls. Unabhängig davon, dass Husserl selbst, wie wir zeigen werden, bereits an eine solche Möglichkeit der Übersetzung gedacht hat, besteht das Interesse der Husserlschen Phänomenologie für die Übersetzungstheorie darin, ein ausgezeichnetes Instrument zur linguistischen Analyse vorzuschlagen, dessen Spezifizität nicht in einer reinen Formanalyse besteht, sondern in der Analyse der Form ausgehend vom Bewusstseinsinhalt, in dem jede Form entweder gemäß dem intentionalen Modus des Bewusstseins über ein bewusstseinsmäßiges Äquivalent verfügt oder von einem solchen Inhalt aus erklärbar ist. Die Idee und Möglichkeit einer phänomenologischen Übersetzungsforschung wird im Ausgang von der Erforschung eines solchen Bewusstseins, das sich auch als ein Übersetzungsbewusstsein darstellt, durchgeführt.