(Ne)episteminis modalumas: anglų kalbos must, have to ir have got to bei jų vertimo atitikmenys lietuvių kalboje

Author(s): Audronė Šolienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 69/2016

This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation correspondences (TCs) found in a bidirectional translation corpus. The study exploits quantitative and qualitative methods of research. The purpose is to find out which type of modality is most common in the use of must, have to and have got to; to establish their equivalents in Lithuanian in terms of congruent or non-congruent correspondence (Johansson 2007); and to determine how Lithuanian TCs (verbs or adverbials) correlate with different types of modality expressed. The analysis has shown that must is mostly used to convey epistemic nuances, while have to and have got to feature in non-epistemic environments. The findings show that must can boast of a great diversity of TCs. Some of them may serve as epistemic markers; others appear in deontic domains only. Have (got) to, on the other hand, is usually rendered by the modal verbs reikėti ‘need’ and turėti ‘must/have to’, which usually encode deontic modality.

(Ne)prevodivost Ćopićeve poredbene frazeologije u djelu „Doživljaji Nikoletine Bursaća“

Author(s): Rada Stakić,Belma Šator / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 12/2015

Taking the study of Copic’s oeuvre into consideration, his reception in German-speaking countries is relatively unknown. This paper deals with one segment of that cultural exchange – translatological and contrastive analysis of comparative phrasemes in a collection of short stories entitled The Adventures of Nikoletina Bursac. Phrasemes (phraseologisms, phraseological units) serve as a reflection of a people’s spirit and culture, they emerge on the basis of certain images – sometimes in common with other languages and cultures, but to a large extent so specific that phraseology as a discipline regards them as untranslatable. Given the fact that every translator’s task is to turn the untranslatable into the translatable, thus revealing their own understanding and evaluation of the foreign culture in question, this analysis seems to coroborate the claim that Ms Ina Jun-Broda managed to maintain the subtle balance with regard to the (un)translatibility of Copic’s protagonists’ sparkling language.

(Nie)poprawność polityczna w nauczaniu tłumaczenia (konfrontacja angielsko‑polska)

Author(s): Ilona Delekta / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to the issue of political correctness in English and Polish as well as in language teaching, particularly in teaching translation. The considerations presented here are based on Polish and English literature (the term English literature refers to publications by English native speakers), as well as on the author’s experience as a teacher and translator. Certain sociocultural differences affecting the approach to this issue in both languages have been indicated. Due to complex and dynamic nature of the discussed issue, the article focuses only on selected language aspects which might cause problems with correct interpretation of the source text or its appropriate translation into Polish. Numerous examples, mainly from English, illustrate problems encountered by the translator and show how certain some assumptions of the political correctness in certain contexts can lead to absurd situations, misunderstandings or even identity loss.

(Nie)typowa rola tłumacza starożytnych tekstów dramatycznych

Author(s): Barbara Bibik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 39/2018

Ancient Greek tragedies were written by their authors to be performed on the Athenian stage and the shape of this stage with its technical devices was included in characters’ lines. However, there is a fundamental difference between the stage those plays were written for and the modern stage on which any drama translation may potentially be realized. The time span too poses a great difficulty for a translator as those plays belong to a culture we probably cannot truly access any more. According to Jerzy Ziomek, every text from the past needs to be adapted nowadays. But does it mean that a translator of any ancient drama aware that those plays were written to be performed on stage, can for various reasons, whether literary or theatrical, take on the role not only of the first reader, but also of the first producer of a given play, thus adapting it to the modern theatre stage?

(Nie)znaczące przesunięcia gramatyczno-stylistyczne w tłumaczeniu sądowym

Author(s): Agnieszka Biernacka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 44/2019

Court interpreters in Poland are obliged to satisfy legal provisions and principles of professional ethics, which govern the way the utterances produced by main participants in the trial should be rendered. Empirical research into interpreting in court setting proves that interpreters intervene in the original utterances e.g. through applying grammatical and stylistic shifts. In this article an empirical qualitative analysis of the activities of court interpreters of English consisting in introducing modifications in style and grammatical person as regards original utterances is presented. The aim of the analysis is to discuss the changes proposed by interpreters, indicate the underlying mechanisms, as well as evaluate them from the perspective of complying with ethical principles of accuracy and impartiality.

(Un)translatability revisited:

transmetic and intertextual puns in Viktor Pelevin’s Generation “P” and its translations

Author(s): Roman Ivashkiv / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Babylen Tatarsky, the protagonist in Russian writer Viktor Pelevin’s novel Generation “P”(translated into English by Andrew Bromfield as Homo Zapiens), works to adapt Americanadvertisements for the Russian market and witnesses how the reality of Russia’s tumultuous1990s is replaced by a consumer-driven television simulation. Puns in the advertising slogansthat Tatarsky translates, interspersed throughout the novel, are central to its plot. Some of thesepuns exhibit greater sophistication than others: in addition to utilizing homonymy, homophony,homography, paronymy, and polysemy, they involve transmesis, multilingualism, andintertextuality. This article compares how Pelevin’s translators (English, German, Polish,Spanish, and French) approached these difficult puns. The objective of this comparative analysisis to demonstrate how the intertext(s) evoked through wordplay may, on the one hand, impedetranslation, but, on the other, open avenues for creative solutions, by producing new traces andechoes of meaning that make the act of translation possible. The issues raised by the varioustranslations point to a need to re-examine the roles and tasks of the translator and underscorethe importance of keeping the (un)translatability debate open. Ultimately, this article aims tocontribute to the ongoing reconceptualization of what literary translation is and, especially,what it does: with texts, readers, literatures, and, above all, with language.

,,Kurzarbeit, in varianta romaneasca" - Zur Ubertratung des Fachbegriffes Kurzarbeit aus dem Deutschen ins Rumanische

Author(s): Maria Parasca / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2020

This paper proposes an analysis of the ways in which the German concept Kurzarbeit was taken over in the Romanian language. The analysis started from twenty-five translation options of the term Kurzarbeit into Romanian. As this concept has not been in the Romanian language so far, its entry into Romanian was a challenge, from the conceptual point of view as well as from the perspective of the translation of the term from German into Romanian.

1918: fine, inizio e séguito, ovvero Julian Tuwim da Primavera ad Andatevene tutti affanculo

Author(s): Luigi Marinelli / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 10/2019

This essay addresses issues of periodization, with a specific focus on the importance (or overvaluation) of the reconstruction of the Polish State and its effects and consequences on contemporary Polish culture and literature: in fact, 1918 was perceived as a turning point and as an ideal boundary between an old and a new era. At the same time, different opinions about the “limits of modernity” in Polish culture and literature were discussed, emphasizing the longue durée of such cultural macrophenomena as the “romantic paradigm” or “Sarmatian” mentality and their significant impacts on the processes of continuity and discontinuity of culture. Searching for a merely literary explanation for the periodization of this first troubled period of the “short century”, the author stresses the importance of two texts by Julian Tuwim, Spring (1918) and You All, Go Kiss My Ass (1938), which feature all the euphoria of the beginning and the drama of the end of the period. The article also offers an initial attempt at an Italian translation of the Tuwimian Poem in which the author politely but firmly implores the vast hosts of his brethren to kiss his ass.

1980-2017 Arası Telif ve Tercüme Matbu Türkçe Tefsirler Bibliyografyası

Author(s): Hikmet Koçyiğit / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2017

Bibliography studies are studies that require constant updating. In Turkey, between 1980 and 2017, the acceleration of migration from the village to the city, the bringing of compulsory education, opening of many formal and private universities have caused enormous mobility of the scientific field and numerous researches on the field of tafsir as it is in every area. This situation has increased the number of copyright and translation works, so it has become necessary to identify these works. Here in this article, as a current contribution to the bibliography of tafsir, a list of the works of copyright and translation which was prepared and printed in Turkish between 1980-2017 is made. However, as a difficulty of bibliography studies, it is necessary to state that some of the works may have escaped the attention anyway.

1er Congrès mondial de traductologie. Paris, l’Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre, 10-14 avril 2017

Author(s): Christine Durieux / Language(s): French / Issue: 8/2017

2006-2015 Yılları Arasında Bulgaristan’da Çevrilen Romanlara Kısa Bir Bakış

Author(s): Ayra Şen Tilki / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2019

Turkey and Bulgaria became neighbors with each other for many years and they are two countries with common history. There is a need for a thorough investigation of the literary world of these two countries which have cultural, political and literary characteristics. Undoubtedly, it will be more accurate to do research on the novel which is the most translated genre during this period. In the years mentioned, selected and translated novels were evaluated. Between these years, the number of translated novels has been determined, and the subject and genre has been examined. In this research, the traces of Turkish literature in Bulgaria have been extensively researched and revealed with chronological data.

21ST CENTURY GEORGIAN-RUSSIAN TRANSLATION: PRIORITIES AND INNOVATIONS IN INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Author(s): Irine Modebadze / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Translation is an integral part of intercultural communication and one of the most actual forms of exchange of spiritual values. The evolution of literary traditions and associated changes in translation norms have a substantial impact on perceptions about the adequacy of translation. Serious fluctuations in translation priorities are fixed in post-soviet space.This article will provide the results of research carried out for the first time that deals with the specificity of modern translation strategies through the analysis of five new translations of Shota Rustaveli’s poem. Analysis has proved that the postmodern mentality of translators at the end of the 20th century seeks to give the reader comprehension of the original – here the priority is attributed not to domestication but to hermeneutical interpretation of the text. A tendency of synthesis is outlined towards translation and publishing innovations, the main goal of which is translation of an original with preservation of the specificity of its cultural alter and decoding of a text from the position “other” is not “stranger”.

3. Проблема стихового перевода

Author(s): Yuri M. Lotman / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/1964

Вопрос о возможностях стихотворного перевода, как правило, не вводится в классическое стихосложение. Он рассматривается, чаще всего, в рамках общей теории перевода. Между тем, по аналогии с развитием лингвистики, априорно можно сказать, что сопоставление структур оригинала и перевода и установление критериев их адэкватности может стать отправным пунктом при определении своеобразия поэтической структуры вообще.

95 години от рождението на Микола Демянович Малярчук

Author(s): Olha Soroka / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 27/2013

A BLATTOLÓ FORDÍTÁS SZEREPE A KÖZJEGYZŐI OKIRATOK FORDÍTÁSÁBAN

Author(s): Krisztina Sárosi-Márdirosz / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

This paper deals with a specific form of simultaneous interpreting that is called sight translation, meaning that the interpreter reads a text elaborated in a language not understood by the signee of a document and which therefore must be translated for that person. This kind of translation is considered to be a form of simultaneous interpreting because it is an on-line or real-time rendering of a written text in oral form (reading in language B a text written in language A).

A brief introduction to two manuscripts of Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā found in Tibet

Author(s): Zhen Liu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

There are two Sanskrit manuscripts of Kṣemendra’s Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā preserved at Drepung Monastery in Tibet. The earlier one (according to the colophon) contains all the 108 avadānas comprising the whole text, while the later one only includes the last 61 avadānas. In this paper, we compare and analyse two paratextual elements of the extant versions, namely, pallava-endings and prologue, in order to know how frequently the translator Shong ton Rdo rje rgyal mtshan and the redactor Zha lu lotsāva Chos skyong bzang po used these two manuscripts

A BRIEF STUDY OF RETICENCE IN ESP CLASSES

Author(s): Mirela Costeleanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 27/2020

As a complex phenomenon, reticence has been proved to exist in foreign language classroom, affecting the learning of the target language. Students’ low proficiency, their fear of being corrected by their teachers or laughed at by their peers are two of the factors that lead to their unwillingness to take part in classroom activities, especially in speaking activities. The compulsory nature of the second language course may exacerbate the problem by negatively influencing students’ motivation to participate in communication activities. Students rarely volunteer answers and even clear-cut answers may be followed by periods of silence. Given that language primarily exists to facilitate communication, interaction in English has an important role to play in developing learners’ ability to use English effectively and correctly. Since interaction will not happen spontaneously, it is teachers’ responsibility to find the right methods to encourage students to increase their involvement in classroom discussions.

A Bruta Animalia latin fordításai: Antonio Cassarino és Lampugnino Birago

Author(s): Balázs Gaál / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2020

Plutarch’s lively dialogue Bruta animalia ratione uti was translated in the course of the 15th century by three different persons whose works are only extant in manuscripts. For establishing the connections between these translations a thorough study of the texts of the codices is needed. In a previous article, we have dealt with Giovanni Regio’s translation, which is the latest in time (1488), and found traces of the latter’s dependence from the translation of the Milanese Lampugnino Birago (c. 1465–1470). The aim of the present paper is to inquire into the text of the earliest translation by the Sicilian Antonio Cassarino (c. 1440–1445) in parallel with the text of Lampugnino Birago’s translation which followed it after two and a half decades. The different translation methods and devices used by the translators provide ample space for comparison. Whereas Cassarino’s approach is more in keeping with the humanist ideal of ‘translation by sense’ (ad sententiam), Birago as a rule follows a principle of ‘translation by word’ (ad verbum), keeping close to the letter. Beyond the questions of translation theory in general problems relating to the textual tradition of the Latin codices, the possible Greek sources of the translations, and a number of lexical matters are discussed.

A Bruta animalia latin fordításai: Giovanni és Raffaele Regio

Author(s): Balázs Gaál / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2018

Plutarch’s dialogue Bruta animalia ratione uti mainly reached popularity in humanist circles through a Latin translation made by Giovanni Regio, a young Paduan, in the year 1488. The text of this translation, which is preserved in a paper codex Ms. 958 of the University Library of Padua, was revised and posthumously put into print by Raffaele Regio, Giovanni’s older brother, in the year 1508 in Venice. A comparison of the text of the manuscript with that of the printed version has so far been neglected in philological research. With a detailed analysis, we wish to ascertain how far changes have been effected to the original translation during the revision and try to get an insight into the methods and skills of the young translator. Thereby we shall even be able to trace if there is any further connection of the text with the other two translations of the dialogue, those that were made a few decades earlier by Antonio Cassarino and Lampugnino Birago.

A Byzantine Epigram in the Pictorial Cycle of Akathistos Hymn for the Virgin from the Narthex of Kremikovtsi Monastery St George (1493)

Author(s): Tsvetan Vasilev / Language(s): English / Issue: 16-17/2017

The research paper presents an unpublished inscription in Greek language from the narthex of the Kremikovtsi Monastery St George near Sofia – an epigram of the famous Byzantine poet Theodoros Prodromos, who lived at the court of the Komnenian Dynasty in the twelfth century. Being part of the scene Flight into Egypt and – more precisely, – being written in the scroll of a female figure – a personification of the city, no parallel of this inscription has been attested so far in post-Byzantine art. The only other scroll like this has been discovered in the church of the Seslavtsi Monastery St Nicholas near Sofia, but the text there is probably just a decorative detail. A complete study of the preserved part of the damaged inscription is conducted, together with a discussion about its linguistic and literary specifics in the context of the high Byzantine poetry and the Biblical exegesis. The aim is to outline and to describe the raison d’être of this religious epigram (ἱερὸν ἐπίγραμμα) as an expressive instrument for direct communication with the audience through its main stylistic feature – the dialogue between the Saviour and the layman, between the divine and the human nature of Christ. The poetical form chosen by Theodoros Prodromos immediately draws the viewers’ attention and it compels them to reflect upon the scene. Theodoros Prodromos’ epigram in the Kremikovtsi Monastery offers an exceptional and significant proof that the connection of Balkan art to the achievements of the Christian culture of the former Byzantine empire was still alive in the fifteenth century.