Translation with Commentary: Focusing on Culture-Specific Items

master's thesis

• Title (croatian): Prijevodi s komentarima: s posebnim naglaskom na kulturne reference
• Author: Lucija Burić
• Mentor: Kristijan Nikolić (mentor)
• Committee member: Nataša Pavlović (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Vinko Zgaga (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2021-07-06, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics

Abstract

This thesis comprises five translations with commentary. Excerpts from three books were translated from English into Croatian (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, You Are What You Read: Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World and Spitfire: A Very British Love Story) and two from Croatian into English (Znanstvena istraživanja jezika i prevođenja and Fiumanski, opet lažeš). In the commentary, I explained my solutions to the various translation problems I encountered. Some of these problems included researching the source-text scientific terminology and culture-specific items and finding the most appropriate target-language equivalents. Other translation problems required analysing possible ways in which I could preserve the stylistic and semantic integrity of the source texts without compromising the target readership’s comprehension of the translations.

Abstract (croatian)

Ovaj se diplomski rad sastoji od pet prijevoda s komentarima. Odlomci iz triju knjiga su prevedeni s engleskog na hrvatski (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, You Are What You Read: Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World and Spitfire: A Very British Love Story), dok su s hrvatskog na engleski prevedeni odlomci iz dviju knjiga (Znanstvena istraživanja jezika i prevođenja and Fiumanski, opet lažeš). U popratnim se komentarima nalaze moja objašnjena vezana za rješenja raznovrsnih problema na koje sam naišla tijekom prevođenja. Oni se najvećim dijelom tiču istraživanja znanstvene terminologije i kulturnih referenci u izvorniku te pronalaska njihovih prikladnih prijevodnih ekvivalenata. U komentarima su također raspravljeni načini na koje sam se tijekom prevođenja trudila očuvati značenjski i stilistički integritet izvornika te osigurati razumijevanje ciljne publike.

• Keywords: translation; commentary; terminology; culture-specific items
• Keywords (croatian): prijevod; terminologija; kulturne reference; komentari
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:395931
• Study programme: Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation; Course: Translation; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Access restricted to students and staff of home institution
• Created on: 2021-10-31 01:53:52