Translating Wordplay in Through the Looking Glass

master's thesis

• Author: Ana Delač
• Mentor: Snježana Veselica Majhut (mentor)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2020-09-22, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics

Abstract

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 determine, using Delabastita’s typology of strategies for translating wordplay, which
translation strategy is most commonly used in the selected translations . Another aim of the
study is to establish whether the wordplay in the TT is of the same type or of a different type
than the wordplay in the ST using a modified typology based on Verena Thaler’s definition and
typology of wordplay. The findings show that wordplay is translated as wordplay more often
than not by all three translators. Translators also more often translated wordplay using the same
type of wordplay, with slight differences between the translators observed.

• Keywords: Through the Looking Glass; wordplay; pun; translation strategy
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:189222
• 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: Open access
• Created on: 2020-11-03 15:53:28