CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITY 
IN 
TRANSLATING ROMANIAN FOLK TALES 
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CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITY IN TRANSLATING ROMANIAN FOLK TALES
CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITY IN TRANSLATING ROMANIAN FOLK TALES

Author(s): Cristina Chifane
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: cultural specificity; linguistic identity; equivalence; translation strategies

Summary/Abstract: Offering a bird’s-eye-view upon the translation problems and difficulties occurring in the case of Romanian folk tales is of utmost importance for the cross-cultural exchange between such different languages, each of them with its beauty and uniqueness. The translation process reveals interesting issues regarding: proper names; beginning, middle and ending formulas; phrases and idioms; regionalisms; euphemisms; interjections; rhetorical questions and exclamatory sentences; irony and mockery; nicknames; proverbs and sayings. All these aspects are worth highlighting in order to preserve cultural and linguistic identity in translation.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11/2
  • Page Range: 34 -42
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English