Translation With Commentary: Focusing on Compensation in Translation

master's thesis

• Author: Lucija Novokmet
• Mentor: Vinko Zgaga (mentor)
• Committee member: Snježana Veselica Majhut (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ivana Bašić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-07-01, 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 (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 commentary focused primarily on where and how I had to compensate for the act of neutralization of expressions, a process that inevitably had to happen. My primary focus was on finding suitable mechanisms to compensate for the information loss that is essential to the act of translation.

Abstract (croatian)

Ovaj diplomski rad sadrži pet prijevoda s komentarima. Ulomci iz triju knjiga prevedeni su s engleskog na hrvatski (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 conversion. The power of talk in a digital age), te dvije s hrvatskog na engleski (Dražen Šimleša, Ekološki otisak. Kako je razvoj zgazio održivost; Ivan Đogić, Iran u prezentu). Prvenstveno sam se fokusirala na to gdje i kako bih najbolje mogla nadoknaditi efekte u tekstu koji su nestali neutralizacijom izraza, procesom koji se neminovno morao dogoditi kao dio prijevodnog procesa. Primarno sam za cilj imala pronaći odgovarajuće mehanizme kako bih vratila ravnotežu svim tekstovima, jer se u svakom javljao gubitak informacija.

• Keywords: translation; compensation in translation
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:236577
• Study programme: Title: English Language and Literature (single major); specializations in: TEFL, 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: 2022-07-12 21:01:02