This study examines German noun compounds and their translations into Swedish. The aim of the study is to investigate to what extent the nominal compounds of the source text are translated with the same structure in the target text, and what consequences possible paraphrases could have for the target text. The first part of the analysis focuses on how the first constituent of the nominal compound and the complexity of the nominal compound affect the translation strategies. The second part examines ad-hoc compounds and how they are translated from German into Swedish. The material for the study comes from the article “Gesichter der Großstadt“ that appeared in the history magazine Geo Epoche 2021. The analysis was carried out on both a quantitative and a qualitative level. The quantitative result shows that about 62 % of the source text noun compounds were translated with the same structure in the target language. However, in over a third of the cases, the noun compounds were translated with other structures. The translation strategy “nominal phrase with different attributes” was the second most used translation strategy with about 17 %, and the translation strategy “reduction” was the third most used strategy with about 15 %. However, these strategies were used much more frequently in the translation of complex nominal compounds and ad hoc compounds. This suggests that factors such as complexity and occurrence of a nominal compound affect the translation strategy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-124453 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Nordh, Emanuel |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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