Ennoblement as translator’s choice. Tre metri sopra il cielo by Federico Moccia in the Polish translation Cover Image

Nobilitazione come scelta traduttiva. Il caso di Tre metri sopra il cielo di Federico Moccia nella traduzione polacca
Ennoblement as translator’s choice. Tre metri sopra il cielo by Federico Moccia in the Polish translation

Author(s): Roman Sosnowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: indices of lexical richness; Italian-Polish translation; translation analysis; ennoblement as deforming tendence

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the novel Tre metri sopra il cielo and its Polish translation are analyzed. Different values of the indices of lexical richness of the Italian and the Polish text lead to the further analysis of stereotyped expressions in Moccia’s novel and in the Polish translation. Comparing the most frequent expressions in the semiautomated manner you discover that to every Italian expression, often repeated, correspond several Polish translations. These solutions are classified in Berman’s terms as nobilitation. In parallel, we try to justify the translators’ choice of nobilitation as adequate in case of paraliterature.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 49-59
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Italian