ПРЕВОД КАО КУЛТУРАЛНА СПОНА: КОНТРАСТИВНО-АНАЛИТИЧКИ ПРИСТУП
TRANSLATION AS A CULTURAL CONNECTOR: A CONTRASTIVE-ANALYTICAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: The contrastive research in translation has primarily been focused on the establishment of a successful or unsuccessful transfer of specific linguistic, literary and cultural issues from a source into a target language. Starting from the posit that a translation represents a connector of the two linguistic and social cultures to which it belongs, this paper tackles the question of extraction of cultural layers which were identified within a translation and their transfer into the source-language text. By applying instruments of contrastive analysis onto a translation into English of the short story Death in Sinan’s Tekke by Ivo Andrić, the paper focuses on uncovering approaches which were used by the translator in achieving the transfer of culturally-marked issues, and which enabled him to transfer the author’s self-proclaimed visibility, so clearly felt in the source-language text, into the text in the target language. The research results show the use of three universal norms, interference, growing standardization and explicitation, during the process of translation. Also noted is the presence of equivalence during transfer of semantic and linguistic units. Finally, the paper points at the necessity of inclusion of an approach which regards a translation as a process, not as a mere product of a translator’s practice or a skill, for it will equip the future users of the text with an ability to conduct their own readings and analyses of a vast number of cultural layers, which may be traced within foundations of a literary text

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