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Translating Dialects: Reader's Perception of Different Translation Strategies
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Sara Pokorni This paper is based on the results of a survey created to investigate how Croatian students perceive three different strategies of dialect translation, so the results could potentially be used as an additional tool in the process of dialect translation. As most current research tends to focus on the translators’ decision-making process, this study is centering on the opinions of the readers. The questionnaire presented to the participants contained three translations of an excerpt written...
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Translating Medical Terms on the Example of 'This is Going to Hurt. Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor' by Adam Kay
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Filip Medar This thesis comprises five annotated translations accompanied by a discussion. Excerpts from the following three books were translated from English into Croatian: This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay; The Translation of Children’s Literature. A Reader, edited by Gillian Lathey, and Quantitative research methods in translation and interpreting studies by Christopher Mellinger and Thomas Hanson. Excerpts from two books were translated from Croatian into...
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Translating Neologisms in Fantasy: An Analysis of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind and its Croatian Translation
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Annamaria Pauković This paper deals with the creation and translation of neologisms in the fantasy genre on the example of the novel The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and its Croatian translation. By extracting neologisms unique to the novel and isolating their creation processes and translation procedures, it aims to examine the amount of lexical creativity and innovation in the novel and its translation. In doing so, it investigates how and why neologisms are created and translated in fantasy...
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Translating Vulgar Words from Croatian into English on the Example of Uvjerljivo drugi by Sven Popović
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Lara Fabekovec This thesis comprises five annotated translations followed by a discussion. Excerpts from three books had to be translated from English into Croatian: This is going to hurt. Secret diaries of a junior doctor by Adam Kay, The Translation of Children's Literature. A Reader by Gillian Lathey and Quantitative research methods in translation and interpreting studies by Christopher Mellinger and Thomas Hanson, and two from Croatian into English: Narodni preporod u Istri (1860–1907) by Antoni...
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Translating Wordplay in Through the Looking Glass
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Ana Delač This study aims to observe different ways of translating wordplay in three translations into
Croatian of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. First, the theoretical framework related
to the problems of the translation of wordplay is discussed as well as definitions, typologies and
terminology used in defining and researching wordplay. The phenomenon of wordplay is then
discussed primarily in terms of special problems it presents for translators. One aim of the study
is to...
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Translation With Commentary: Focusing on Compensation in Translation
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Lucija Novokmet This thesis comprises five translations with commentary. Excerpts from three books were translated from English into Croatian (Owen Jones, The establishment and how they get away with it; Paul Kelley, Making minds. What's wrong with education and what should we do about it?; Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming conversation. The power of talk in a digital age), and two from Croatian into English (Dražen Šimleša, Ekološki otisak. Kako je razvoj zgazio održivost; Ivan Đogić, Iran u prezentu). The...
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Translation With Commentary: With Special Emphasis on Mental Images
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Lucija Kozina This thesis comprises five translations with commentary. Excerpts from three books were translated from English into Croatian (Spitfire: A Very British Love Story, 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 two from Croatian into English (Fiumanski, opet lažeš, Znanstvena istraživanja jezika i prevođenja). The commentary focused on different problems that appeared during the...
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Translation in Crisis Response Planning - Croatia as a Case Study
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Matea Kladarić Crisis situations present highly complex challenges, which has led to the development of crisis response planning and crisis management. Numerous aspects need to be incorporated within these fields in order to save lives and reduce damage as much as possible. One particularly important and, at the same time, challenging aspect is respect for human rights, especially the right to access information in a foreign language. To this end, the topic of crisis translation has been gaining attention...
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