Verbo-Nominal Collocations with Gniew (Anger) in Brat Naszego Boga (Karol Wojtyła) and Their Translation into French and Dutch Cover Image

Collocations verbo-nominales avec gniew (colère) dans Brat naszego Boga (Karol Wojtyła) et leur traduction en français et en néerlandais
Verbo-Nominal Collocations with Gniew (Anger) in Brat Naszego Boga (Karol Wojtyła) and Their Translation into French and Dutch

Author(s): Muriel Waterlot
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Translation Studies
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: nouns denoting emotion; anger; ontological structure; verb-noun collocations; translation strategies; equivalence

Summary/Abstract: This article reports on an analysis of the translation of collocations with the noun gniew (anger) in Karol Wojtyła’s play Brat Naszego Boga (‘Brother of our God’) into French, and proposes translations of these collocations into Dutch. For the semantic-discursive analysis of collocations with gniew (anger), we established a methodological model in which we integrated – based on Eckman’s definition of anger – elements of this emotion (as a process) and their linguistic realisation, which takes the form of a verb-noun collocation (of the V+N or N+V type) according to the cognitive approach of collocations proposed by Śliwa.The study opens up a contrastive perspective in order to identify possible difficulties in the translation of verb-nominal collocations with gniew (anger). In order to facilitate a more detailed description of the degree of equivalence in the translation of these collocations, we have resorted to Camugli Gallardo’s scheme.This analysis allows us to state that a semantic-discursive approach applied to the comparative analysis of the translation of certain lexical units – such as collocations – could be adopted as a starting point for defining the criteria for evaluating the quality of a translation.

  • Issue Year: 69/2021
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 129-155
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: French