Translation with commentary: focusing on terminology and clarity in translation

master's thesis

• Title (croatian): Prijevodi s komentarima s posebnim naglaskom na terminologiju i jasnoću u prevođenju
• Author: Juraj Pavković
• Mentor: Ivana Bašić (mentor)
• Committee member: Anda Bukvić Pažin (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Nataša Pavlović (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2024-07-03, 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 (Caroline Eden’s Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland, Perry Nodelman’s The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature, and Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next), and two from Croatian into English (Nikolina Topić’s Staklo u Dubrovačkoj republici u svjetlu arheoloških nalaza and Roman Simić’s Iva do mjeseca i natrag). The commentary primarily focused on issues regarding two aspects of translation: terminology and clarity. In the comments regarding terminology, I discussed the various decisions I had to make when selecting an appropriate translation for certain problematic terms, such as culture-specific terms that do not have direct equivalents in the target culture, specialist terms, and so on. In the comments that focused on clarity, I discussed which elements of the original text I omitted or modified, as well as which new elements I added in order to produce a clear and unambiguous translation that would be easy for readers to understand.

Abstract (croatian)

Ovaj se diplomski rad sastoji od pet prijevoda s komentarima. Ulomci iz triju djela prevedeni su s engleskog jezika na hrvatski (Caroline Eden, Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland, Perry Nodelman, The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature i Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next), a s hrvatskog jezika na engleski prevedeni su ulomci iz dviju djela (Nikolina Topić, Staklo u Dubrovačkoj republici u svjetlu arheoloških nalaza i Roman Simić, Iva do mjeseca i natrag). U komentarima sam se ponajviše usredotočio na pitanja vezana uz dva aspekta prevođenja: terminologiju i jasnoću. U komentarima vezanim uz terminologiju raspravljao sam o raznim odlukama koje sam morao donijeti pri biranju primjerenih prijevoda za određene problematične pojmove, npr. kulturološki specifične pojmove koji nemaju izravne ekvivalente u ciljnoj kulturi, stručne pojmove, i sl. U komentarima vezanim uz jasnoću raspravljao sam o tome koje sam elemente izvornog teksta izostavio ili modificirao, kao i o tome koje sam nove elemente dodao kako bih proizveo jasan i nedvosmislen prijevod koji bi čitateljima bio jednostavan za razumjeti.

• Keywords: translation; terminology; culture-specific terms; clarity; English; Croatian
• Keywords (croatian): prevođenje; terminologija; kulturološki specifični pojmovi; jasnoća; engleski; hrvatski
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:516356
• Study programme: Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL; 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: 2024-07-10 14:16:28