A Goblin or a Dirty Nose?

Translators’ behaviors from a sociological perspective – A parallel corpus study of fantasy fiction translation in Taiwan

“…Some theorists have proposed solutions for handling the translating problems posed by CSIs (see Aixelá 1996;Davies 2003;Fernandes 2006;Klingberg 1986). Aixelá (1996) proposes 11 methodological categorizations when translating CSIs after scrutinizing the translation patterns found in three Spanish translations of an American novel, The Maltese Falcon, while Davies (2003) identifies seven procedures used in the translations of CSIs in the French translation of the Harry Potter books.…”

“…Aixelá (1996) proposes 11 methodological categorizations when translating CSIs after scrutinizing the translation patterns found in three Spanish translations of an American novel, The Maltese Falcon, while Davies (2003) identifies seven procedures used in the translations of CSIs in the French translation of the Harry Potter books. Fernandes (2006) concludes 10 translation procedures in dealing with names in his Portuguese-English parallel corpus of children's fantasy literature.…”

“…Fernandes (2006) also proposes the same procedure by describing it as meaning is rendered in the target language. Such a circumstance is categorized as linguistic (non-cultural) translation by Aixelá (1996) and as preservation by Davies (2003), which is explained as an approach of literal translation, Klingberg (1986) seems to leave out this approach. Rendition is defined here as the referred cultural reference being translated literally by its closest corresponding meaning in the target language.…”

Realizacija deminutiva u prevodu „Ježeve kućice“ Branka Ćopića na engleski jezik

“…Najučestaliji deminutivni sufiksi su -ić (za imenice muškog roda), -ica (za imenice žen-skog roda), te -o i -a za hipokoristike muškog i ženskog roda. Od navedenih imenica po broju ponavljanja izdvajaju se lija (12), ježić (9), Ježur- 7 Obrazac deminuiranja imenica preuzet iz Đurić 2004: 148. ka (7), medo (6) i kućica (6). Ukupan broj primjera u kojima su umanjenice korištene je 49.…”

“…Na primjer, kako bi dijete lakše prihvatilo glavne junake, neophodno je da se prevod i kulturološki prilagodi, pa se posebna pažnja posvećuje prevođenju njihovih imena. Zbog toga je prethodno navedenim tehnikama dodata još jedna leksička zamjena koju E. E. Dejvis (Davies 2003) naziva kreiranje. Ovom tehnikom vlastito ime dobija obično živopisan ekvivalent iz jezika na koji se prevodi, bilo da se imitira njegova fonetska struktura ili sadržaj.…”