This study investigates the use of different strategies for translating puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The material chosen for this study consist of the two Swedish translations by Nonnen (1870/1984) and Westman (2009). Six puns were selected for the analysis which greatly relies on Delabastita’s (1996) eight strategies for translating puns, and Newmark’s (1988) translation methods. The analysis shows that Westman empathises with the readers of the TT while Nonnen empathises with the ST. This entails that Westman tends to use a more ‘free’ translation and is more inclined to adapt the ST puns to make them more visible for the readership of the TT. The priority for Nonnen, on the other hand, is to remain faithful to the contextual meaning of the ST. Paradoxically, to be faithful to the ST does not necessarily entail that the translator respects the semantic aspects of the ST, but that they adapt the culture of the ST to better fit the cultural and linguistic framework of the TL. Since Westman adapts the ST puns so that they are still recognised by the reader of the TT, her translation appears to be more suitable for the TL readership than Nonnen’s.

The present study deals with the work and practice of three Scandinavian translators, namely Kjell Olaf Jensen (Norwegian), Marianne Öjerskog (Swedish) and Agnete Dorph Stjernfelt (Danish). The main question of the thesis is what strategies the translators use when translating culture-specific elements from French and English. Theoretically the thesis positions itself within the framework of Descriptive Translation Studies and draws upon system theories as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture. The method consists of a source text – target text analysis, using a somewhat modified version of Pedersen’s (2007) method identifying seven translation strategies, namely (1) retention, (2) specification, (3) direct translation, (4) generalization, (5) substitution, (6) omission and (7) official equivalent. In this thesis the three former and the official equivalent are categorized as “adequate”, whereas generalization, substitution and omission are categorized as “acceptable” using Toury’s (2012) terminology. Six different types of culture-specific elements are investigated, namely (1) titles, address and professional titles, (2) currencies, (3) weights and measures, (4) literature and music, (5) education, and (6) names. In addition to this analysis, interviews with the three translators were carried out. Results show that there are both similarities and dissimilarities in the translators’ choices of translation strategies. It also turns out that the strategies used to a great extent depend on the culture-specific element in question and hardly ever on the source language. Results also suggest that the higher the translators’ amount of accumulated total capital, the more likely it is that they adopt a heterodoxic translation strategy. Jensen and Stjernfelt are more often positioned at one of the two extremes of the adequacy–acceptability axis than is the case for Öjerskog. Moreover, results from the interviews and the text analyses show that there are a number of norms that govern the translators’ practices. The translatorial practice is to manoeuver in a field governed by norms in order to produce the best possible target texts – target texts that are true to the original and conform to domestic literary standards.

<p>The following essay is an analysis of a translation from English into Swedish of two articles concerning tourism, travelling and the environment. The language of the articles is expressive and rich in metaphors, which evokes images in the mind of the reader. The translation was performed with the aim to transfer this effect into the translated texts and the aspects to be examined in the analysis were chosen with this in mind.One of the three aspects to be examined is the use of metaphors and how they are translated into Swedish. Many of the metaphors bear reference to travelling and the environment which gives them a function of enforcing the message and engaging the reader in the text. In order to obtain the same effect in the Swedish translations several translation strategies had to be used.The second aspect to be examined is the terminology used within tourism and the environment.  The environmental concern is a growing trend which inevitably influences the language and requires a new set of useful and understandable terms. This becomes clear when reading and translating the articles at hand. The environmental terms are fairly new and sometimes hard to distinguish. In this study focus is set on the translation strategies and the procedures used in order to find the Swedish equivalents of the terms in this context.The third aspect is the translation of hyphenated pre-modifiers. This aspect is particularly interesting, since the phenomenon is more or less unknown in Swedish. Of the fifteen hyphenated pre-modifiers in the source texts none were translated into hyphenated pre-modifiers in Swedish although five of them were translated into regular pre-modifiers. The analysis is based on the translation strategies applied and the comparison of syntactic structures of the expressions in English and Swedish.</p>

This thesis analyses the translation strategies for culture-specific items (CSIs) in the translations by four different Lithuanian translators of four British and Canadian novels for young people, "Alone at Ninety Foot" (2001) by Katherine Holubitsky, "Hit and Run" (2003) by Norah McClintock, "Double Act" (1996) by Jacqueline Wilson and "The Borrowers" (1952) by Mary Norton. All these novels have a great variety of culture-specific items, often reflecting the lives of children and adolescents and issues that are important to them. The analysis of translation of culture-specific items is based on the strategies suggested by Eirlys E. Davies, while the categories of culture-specific items that are chosen for deeper discussion are those of a higher importance for the characters or themes of the novel. Statistical analysis of the strategies helps to form a clearer picture of the strategic choices preferred by each of the four Lithuanian translators. The present work is divided into five sections and has two appendices. Section One introduces the purpose of the work and provides some information about the object of analysis: the translation of cultural references in four British and Canadian novels for young people. Section Two explains the terminology used for the analysis of the translation of culture-specific items. Section Three is divided into eight sub-sections: 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 and 3.7 discuss the importance of some categories of culture-specific items in each novel, while... [to full text] / Šiame magistro darbe analizuojamos keturių vertėjų strategijos perteikiant kultūrines realijas keturiuse Didžiosios Britanijos ir Kanados jaunimo romanų vertimuose į lietuvių kalbą. Tai -Katherine Holubitsky romanas „Vienatvė prie Devyniasdešimties Pėdų tvenkinio“, Nora McClintock romanas „Pabėgęs iš įvykio vietos“, Jacqueline Wilson - „Mes - dvynės!“ bei Mary Norton - „Skoliniautojai“. Šiuose romanuose rasta daug įvairių kultūrinių realijų, kurios atspindi paauglių gyvenimą ir jiems svarbius dalykus. Kultūrinių realijų vertimas analizuojamas taikant Eirlys E. Davies strategijas. Šiai analizei atrinktos tos kultūrinių realijų grupės, kurios atlieka svarbų vaidmenį atskleidžiant romanų temas bei atvaizduojant pagrindinius veikėjus. Vertimo strategijų statistinių duomenų suvestinė padeda aiškiau suvokti keturių lietuvių vertėjų naudojamas strategijas. Darbą sudaro penki skyriai ir du priedai. Pirmame skyriuje pristatomas darbo tikslas ir analizės objektas - trumpai apibūdinamas kultūrinių realijų vertimas keturiuose Didžiosios Britanijos ir Kanados romanuose jaunimui. Antrame skyriuje paaiškinamos sąvokos, naudojamos kultūrinių realijų vertimo analizei. Trečią skyrių sudaro aštuoni poskyriai. 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 ir 3.7 poskyriuose pristatomos kai kurios svarbios kiekvieno romano kultūrinių realijų grupės, o 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 ir 3.8 poskyriuose aptariamos kultūrinių realijų vertimo strategijos kiekviename romane. Pastarieji poskyriai dar suskirstyti pagal kultūrinių realijų grupes... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

The focus of this thesis is the translation strategies used to translate culture specific items in the Lithuanian and English versions of Peter Mayle’s book A Year in Provence. Peter Mayle (b. 1939) is a famous British author, known for his educational books for children and travel writing. A Year in Provence is a book about a British couple who decides to settle in a small village of Ménerbes in France. New people and places offer many adventures while trying to know better the French culture and cuisine. The Lithuanian translation of the book was done by the translator Ina Jakaitė (2008). At first, this thesis analyses the concept of cultural adaptation and explanations of the concept of the culture itself. Translation strategies for culture specific items (CSIs) are also discussed in the present paper. Furthermore, some methods of the translation by different scholars are introduced. Translation strategies for culture specific items in the paper are proposed and discussed according to the approach discussed by the famous scholar Eirlys E. Davies. Translation strategies (preservation, addition, omission, globalization, localization, transformation and creation) are used in analyzing and discussing the translation of proper nouns and food items in the book A Year in Provence. The section of proper names is divided into two categories: proper names ( the first names and surnames) and geographical names (names of cities, names of towns, names of streets, names of cafés and... [to full text] / Šio darbo tikslas yra išanalizuoti kultūrinių realijų rūšis ir jų vertime naudojamas strategijas Piterio Meilo knygoje „Metai Provanse“ (2000). Piteris Meilas (g. 1939) yra žymus britų autorius, rašęs knygas ne tik suaugusiems, bet taip pat ir lavinamąsias knygas vaikams. „Metai Provanse“ yra knyga apie britų porą, kuri palieka savo namus Anglijoje ir apsigyvena mažame Manerbo miestelyje Prancūzijos pietryčiuose. Naujos vietovės ir naujai sutikti žmonės kelia daug iššūkių naujakuriams ir verčia ne tik geriau pažinti pačią Prancūziją, bet ir kultūrinius bei gastronominius ypatumus. Knygą į lietuvių kalbą išvertė Ina Jakaitė (2008). Darbe pristatoma kultūrinio pritaikymo svarba ir apibrėžiama pati kultūros konsepcija. Vertimo strategijos taip pat analizuojamos šiame baigiamąjame darbe. Kadangi mokslininkai skirtingai pateikia panašias vertimo strategijas, aptariama jų įvairovė, analizė grindžiama Eirlys E. Davies pateikiamais metodais. Vertimo teorijos yra naudojamos analizuojant tikrinių daiktavardžių ir maisto terminų vertimą knygoje „Metai Provanse“. Tikrinių daiktavardžių pavyzdžiai yra suskirstyti į dvi dalis: tikrinius vardus (vardus ir pavardes) ir geografinius vardus (miestų, gatvių, kavinių bei restoranų, miestelių bei kaimų ir slėnių pavadinimus). Maisto terminų pavyzdžiai taip pat suskirstyti į dvi grupes: maisto produktus (mėsos, pieno produktus, daržoves ir vaisius, prieskonius ir jūros gėrybes) ir atskirus patiekalus, patiekiamus valgio metu (užkandžius, salotas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

The aim of this thesis is to compare two Lithuanian translations of A Clockwork Orange in respect of its main stylistic component the Russian “Nadsat”, to examine the intercultural translation problems arising in this translation and strategies invoked by the translators, and make decisions about the quality of the target texts. To reach this aim, descriptive and comparative methods as well as quantitative analysis are applied. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the cultural aspect in translation and translators’ role in dealing with intercultural translation problems. Further, it discusses macro and micro approach to translation, i.e. various strategies for solving intercultural translation problems, giving most attention to borrowings and slang and the difficulties they pose in translation. Moreover, softening and compensation are also presented as the most effective strategies for solving such problems. The analysis begins with the discussion of macro and micro level of problems arising in the “Nadsat” translation. Then, the strategies used by the translators are examined on the grounds of the foreignization and domestication strategies (Venuti), seven micro strategies suggested by Davies, and softening and compensation. The analysis also includes a comparison of quantity and density of borrowings and slang in the ST, TT1 and TT2 as well as of softening and compensation. Moreover, the appendices (A, B and C) include glossaries of borrowings and slang from all... [to full text] / Šio darbo tikslas — palyginti du Prisukamo Apelsino vertimus į lietuvių kalbą, ypatingą dėmesį skiriant pagrindiniam stilistiniam šio romano komponentui — „Nadsat” kalbos rusiškiems žodžiams, išanalizuoti su skirtingomis kultūromis susijusias problemas, kylančias šiame vertime, vertėjų naudojamas strategijas bei padaryti išvadas apie vertimų kokybę. Tikslui pasiekti pasitelkiami aprašomasis ir lyginamasis metodai bei kiekybinė analizė. Teorinėje darbo dalyje apibūdinamas kultūrinis vertimo aspektas ir vertėjo vaidmuo sprendžiant tarpkultūrines vertimo problemas. Aprašomi makro ir mikro vertimo aspektai, t. y. įvairios strategijos, naudojamos tarpkultūrinėms vertimo problemoms spręsti. Didžiausias dėmesys skiriamas skoliniams ir slengui bei jų keliamoms vertimo problemoms. Kaip vieni naudingiausių metodų sprendžiant minėtąsias problemas pristatomi sušvelninimas ir kompensacija. Analitinėje dalyje pirmiausia analizuojamos makro ir mikro problemos, su kuriomis susiduriama „Nadsat” vertime. Toliau nagrinėjamos vertėjų naudojamos strategijos remiantis „foreignization” ir „domestication” strategijomis (Venuti), septyniomis Davies siūlomomis mikro strategijomis, sušvelninimu ir kompensacija. Taip pat lyginami skolinių ir slengo, sušvelninimo ir kompensacijos strategijų kiekiai bei vartojimo dažnumas originale ir abiejuose vertimuose. Prieduose (A, B, C) pateikiami skolinių ir slengo, išrinktų iš visų trijų tekstų, žodynai su tiesioginėmis ir specifinėmis slengo reikšmėmis. D... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

This research is located within the framework of descriptive translation studies and corpus-based contrastive discourse analysis. Modern Translation Studies has growingly taken into account the complexities of culture-specific expressions in literary translation. Conference interpreting setting has paradoxically not been touched upon. Through an empirical case study of the interpretation of Chinese culture-specific expressions in ten Chinese Premier’s Press Conferences, this thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of interpreting culture-specific expressions in a conference interpreting setting. Methodologically, this thesis integrates the linguistic approach with the culture-oriented approach, empiricism with interpretivism and quantitative with qualitative research. It began with a detailed transcription of ten unrevised press conference video recordings downloaded from Internet. With such transcription, the specialized corpora constituted by the Chinese culture-specific expressions and their interpretations were built and coded innovatively using the four translation strategies converted from the six kernel theories within the theoretical framework of this thesis. Contrastive discourse analysis of the specialized corpora was carried out against such extra-textual resources as the media coverage of the press conference, the lectures given by the government interpreters and so on. Translation norms that reflect the regularities of how the four translation strategies are used were derived from such large-scale case studies and tested against more cases before being qualitatively analyzed to explain why they exist and how they were manifested in the selection of translation strategies in the specialized corpora. This thesis claims contribution to existing literature in terms of theory and methodology. Theoretically, it proposed six translation norms of the use of four translation strategies for the five categories of the Chinese culture-specific expressions in the Chinese Premier’s Press Conferences with a core argument that the interpreters’ selection of translation strategies is subject more to contexts than to their subjectivity, which empirically confirms for the first time Eco-translatology Theory’s central claim that an interpreter selects translation strategies by adapting to contexts. In addition, as a pioneering study on cultural expressions under conference interpreting context, this research increases the explanatory power of relevant translation theories because it spans literary translation and conference interpreting. Methodologically, translation strategies were converted from relevant translation theories and used as descriptive categories for corpus-based contrastive analysis, which constitutes an originality in contrast to previous research that teem with researcher-named strategies and confuse translation strategies with translation methods. Furthermore, this research improves transcription coding and corpus building tactics, making data analysis not only more systematic but also more accessible to readers who do not know both languages.

Student Number : 9613926H - MA research report - School of Translators and Interpreters - Faculty of Humanities / This dissertation attempts to offer a contribution to the field of translation by applying the practices of descriptive translation studies to a corpus of Chemistry terms in English and translated into Sepedi in order to establish whether the translation strategies opted for prove successful in promoting Sepedi to be a language for special purposes (LSP). The theoretical framework which is used in this project is the model of Baker (1992) of translation strategies of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). DTS is one of the three main branches of Translation Theory (Holmes, 1972). It differs from the other approaches in that it does not offer a set of guidelines which dictate how a translation should be done. Attention was also paid to theories of translation, such as those of Lawrence Venuti (2000) and his concepts of domesticating and foreignising translation in order to establish whether the translators have domesticated or foreignised the text and to what extent? Both strategies are evident in the corpus. This project also focused on the issue of the mother tongue education in the South African context with the emphasis on the perceptions and attitudes of learners and educators towards translated materials. Learners and their educators show some resistance to the use of local African languages, specifically Sepedi as medium of instruction in high schools. Reasons for their resistance against mother tongue education are economic and political. African languages are regarded as “low languages”, languages of inferior status as compared to English and Afrikaans.

Esta tese analisa a tradução de jogos de palavras do romance O xangô de Baker Street (SOARES, 1995), traduzido para o inglês por Clifford Landers em 1997, e o faz com base no quadro de estratégias de tradução de jogos de palavras apresentado por Delabastita (1996). O corpus de estudo é composto pelo romance citado mais a sua tradução para a língua inglesa, A samba for Sherlock. Esta investigação utiliza a abordagem teórico-metodológica da Linguística de Corpus e se caracteriza como um estudo direcionado pelo corpus (TOGNINI-BONELLI, 2001), uma vez que os dados analisados foram evidenciados a partir da exploração de linhas de concordância elaboradas com palavras-chave do corpus de estudo. A exploração do corpus de estudo (de modo especial, a geração e a análise da lista de palavras-chave e das linhas de concordância, bem como o alinhamento do corpus nas duas línguas português e inglês) contou com o auxílio do programa WordSmith Tools 6.0 (SCOTT, 2012), desenvolvido especialmente para a análise lexical. A análise das traduções demonstrou que o quadro de estratégias apresentado por Delabastita (1996) dá conta apenas de parte dos procedimentos observados na tradução dos jogos de palavras investigados. Em decorrência disso, esta tese propõe a ampliação do quadro de estratégias apresentado pelo referido autor, por meio do acréscimo de quatro novas estratégias de tradução de jogos de palavras, quais sejam: 1) o jogo de palavras da língua-fonte é traduzido por um jogo de palavras na língua-alvo e adiciona-se uma explicação; 2) o tradutor realiza uma alteração textual (a substituição de uma palavra no texto inteiro, por exemplo) para viabilizar a tradução de um jogo de palavras; 3) o tradutor reproduz o jogo de palavras do texto-fonte no texto da língua-alvo, sem traduzilo, e adiciona uma explicação; 4) o tradutor reproduz o jogo de palavras do texto-fonte no texto da língua-alvo, sem traduzi-lo, mas suprime elementos (ou a repetição de elementos) constitutivos do jogo de palavras original. / Based on Delabastita\'s (1996) framework for wordplay translation strategies, this dissertation analyzes the translation of wordplays in the novel O Xangô de Baker Street (SOARES, 1995), translated into English by Clifford Landers in 1997. Our study corpus consists of the above mentioned novel and its translation into English, A samba for Sherlock. This research uses the theoretical and methodological approach of Corpus Linguistics and is characterized as \'corpus-driven\' (TOGNINI-BONELLI, 2001), once the data analyzed were highlighted in the concordances generated from keywords of the corpus. The exploration of the corpus (in particular, the generation and analysis of the keyword list and concordances as well as the corpus alignment in both languages - Portuguese and English) was carried out with the lexical analysis software WordSmith Tools 6.0 (SCOTT, 2012). A qualitative analysis of equivalence choices showed that Delabastita\'s (1996) framework matches only partially the procedures observed in the translation of the wordplays investigated. As a result, this dissertation proposes the expansion of Delabastitas framework by means of four new translation strategies of wordplays, as follows: 1) the source language wordplay is translated by a wordplay in the target language and an explanation is added; 2) the translator changes the text (by substituting a word in the whole text, for instance) in order to enable the translation of a wordplay; 3) the translator reproduces the source language wordplay in the target language text, without translating it, and adds an explanation; 4) the translator reproduces the source language wordplay in the target language text, without translating it, but suppresses elements (or the repetition of elements) which constitute the original wordplay.

Research within translation characterises cultural references as being problematic for translators, meaning they must choose between different translation strategies as to how to transfer these references into the translated text. These strategies are often described in general terms according to how closely oriented they are to the target-culture or source-culture, known as domestication or foreignisation. Translation of literature into English is minimal in world terms and there is seemingly a lack of statistically comparable data concerning the translation of cultural references. This study investigates and compares translation strategies of words denoting cultural references in two translations of the 1998 Swedish Nordic Noir novel Sprängaren by Liza Marklund. The methodology in the study is based on descriptive translation studies, and a categorisation model for types of cultural references is used, as well as an adapted taxonomy model for evaluating translation strategies. Issues addressed are: what types of strategies are used; whether strategies change between translations; how the second translation stands in relation to the retranslation hypothesis and whether any general translation norms are apparent. Results show that a wide variety of translation strategies are used for different types of cultural references, with subtle differences in strategies used in each translation. However, both translations appear to be more domestication-oriented with little overall movement towards to the source culture, as the retranslation hypothesis suggests.