The Role of Substandard Language Elements in the Construction of Protagonists and Translation Strategies for their Rendering

master's thesis

• Title (croatian): Uloga supstandardnih elemenata jezika u izgradnji protagonista i prevoditeljske strategije za njihovo prevođenje
• Author: Iva Stipanov
• Mentor: Snježana Veselica Majhut (mentor)
• Committee member: Nataša Pavlović (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Snježana Veselica Majhut (član 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: 2018-09-01, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics

Abstract

This thesis consists of five annotated translations, accompanied by a discussion. Three types of texts were translated from English into Croatian (four pages of text from the book Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind., four pages of text from the book A University Education and four plain language summaries for Cochrane) and two from Croatian into English (six pages from the text Starčevačka kultura na lokalitetu Tomašanci-Palača and six pages from the book Društvene igre). The discussion focused on the use of substandard language elements, such as dialects or swearwords, in literary texts to convey information about the protagonists and the translation problems one might encounter while translating such a text. Examples were taken from the excerpt of the book Društvene igre and analysed.

Abstract (croatian)

Ovaj se diplomski rad sastoji od pet prijevoda popraćenih komentarima te rasprave. Tri su vrste teksta prevedena s engleskog na hrvatski (četiri stranice knjige Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, četiri stranice knjige A University Education te četiri laička sažetka za Cochrane), a dvije s hrvatskog na engleski (šest stranica teksta Starčevačka kultura na lokalitetu Tomašanci-Palača te šest stranica knjige Društvene igre). Rasprava se bavi načinom na koji se supstandardni elementi jezika, poput dijalekata i psovki, koriste u književnim tekstovima u svrhu pružanja dodatnih informacija o likova te problemima s kojima se prevoditelji suočavaju pri prevođenju takvog teksta. Primjeri za raspravu preuzeti su iz zadanog dijela knjige Društvene igre te analizirani.

• Keywords: translation; English; Croatian
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:066983
• 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: Open access
• Created on: 2019-10-07 14:06:03