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Neekvivalentnost srpskih i engleskih kolokacija u književnom prevođenju
Non-Equivalence Of Serbian And English Collocations In Literary Translation

Author(s): Violeta Stojičić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: collocation; equivalence; congruence

Summary/Abstract: We shall comment on the treatment of collocations in published English translations of a sample of Serbian literary texts, which has been analysed with a consideration of consistency in the transfer of the content of source text (ST) collocations into the target text (TT). We have focused on non-equivalent pairs of ST and TT collocations, which suggest that collocational non-equivalence is the result of a) inconsistency in content, b) non-observance of the established collocational patterns in the target language, c) breach of collocational restrictions and/or d) disregard for semantic prosodies of the words combined.

  • Issue Year: 10/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 69-78
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English