Translation strategies used in the folktales The three wishes and Los tres hermanastros and their Romanian correspondents, Cele trei dorinţe and Trei fraţi vitregi
Translation strategies used in the folktales The three wishes and Los tres hermanastros and their Romanian correspondents, Cele trei dorinţe and Trei fraţi vitregi

Summary/Abstract: For this paper, I will look at the translation strategies employed for the rendering into Romanian of the phraseological units present in the English and Spanish folktales, called “The three wishes” and “Los tres hermanastros”. The English folktale was translated into Romanian by professor Dumitru Dorobăţ, in 1981 and published with Junimea Publishing House, while the English volume comprising the folktale first came out in 1917 with Tauchnitz Publishing house. In what concerns the Spanish folktale, it was translated by Ileana Scipione in 2009 and published with Siruela Publishing house in 2006. The translation procedures applied for the phraseological units in the corpus chosen are the ones described by Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet in their already classic by now Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais – Comparative Stylistics of French and English (1958/1995). The conclusions will include the confirmation/denial of my working hypothesis according to which indirect strategies are likely to be more frequent in the translation from English into Romanian as these two languages belong to different language families, while direct ones prevail in the translation from Spanish into Romanian, both being languages of Latin origin.

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