Translation and Gender in Children’s Fiction
Translation and Gender in Children’s Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to show what changes occur when translating children’s fiction from a formal gender system language into a semantic gender system language and vice versa. Children’s fiction was chosen for the abundance of examples that it provides and for the vividity of those examples. Moreover, in this type of fiction, the presence and the type of gender are often more than significant and so the rendition of one and the same text from one language into another poses interesting and challenging problems for the translator. Now I will briefly present two opinions on the gender systems of languages.

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