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Bigliazzi, Silvia

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“…This article tackles a largely neglected topic in theater translation: the translation of discourse markers in drama dialogue. Recent scholarship in translation studies in general, and in theater translation in particular, has tended to focus on the relationship between translation and performance (Marinetti 2013(Marinetti , 2018Bigliazzi, Kofler, and Ambrosi 2013). Meanwhile, scholars working across disciplines such as linguistics and theater (and more specifically within the theoretical framework of discourse analysis) have analyzed various issues related to the language of drama dialogue: analogies between drama dialogue and naturally occurring conversation (Burton 1984, Herman 1995; how drama dialogue functions as interaction (Herman 1995); and how language functions as a characterizing tool in plays and other works of fiction (Culpeper 2001).…”

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Translating discourse markers in theater

Tarantini

Benatti

2019

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This article examines the translation of discourse markers in drama dialogue. Discourse markers are an important feature of spoken language, and unsurprisingly, they abound in drama dialogue. Yet very few studies have addressed the issue of discourse markers in theater translation. While some scholars suggest that discourse markers do not add anything to the propositional content of the sentence (Bazzanella 1994), our study reveals that it is very difficult to omit them in translation. In this article we suggest that an approach based on pragmatics could inform the practice of translating discourse markers in a playtext without overriding the importance of the rhythm of a spoken utterance, which is vital for rendering a play in translation (Bartlett 1996).

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