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Les ambiguïtés terminologiques dans la traduction spécialisée: le cas de quelques termes économiques

Author(s): Corina Bozedean / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Les ambiguïtés terminologiques que le traducteur rencontre dans la traduction spécialisée sont loin d’être éclairées par les dictionnaires ou les glossaires bilingues ou monolingues du domaine. C’est pourquoi dans le passage d’un terme d’une langue à l’autre, le traducteur doit maîtriser à la fois des connaissances linguistiques et extra-linguistiques. Or, l’hétérogénéité des textes à traduire sur le marché du travail, empêche souvent le traducteur de se spécialiser dans un seul domaine. Dans ce contexte, les ressources terminologiques devraient montrer une plus grande adéquation aux exigences de la traduction spécialisée, en éclaircissant plus précisément certains aspects terminologiques fondamentaux, dont celui de la synonymie, qui peut occasionner des confusions. Tel est le cas des termes « frais », « dépenses », « charges » ou bien « taxes » et « droits », dont l’étroite parenté rend difficile leur choix correct dans la traduction.

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The Role of Translation in Teaching a Foreign Language

Author(s): Andreea Năznean / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article aims at presenting different arguments for and against translation in teaching a foreign language. It also recommends translation as one of many possibilities of relating English to students’ own languages. It also considers the different uses and roles of translation and bilingualism for different stages of learning and for different purposes. My intention is also to suggest ways in which translation might be incorporated into textbooks and curriculum development.

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ESP for Horticulture – Needs Analysis and Genre Analysis

Author(s): Gabriella Kovács / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The necessity of ESP courses in higher education has become obvious and imperative since Romania became member of the European Union. A thorough needs analysis was conducted involving horticulture students and colleagues from Sapientia University (Tîrgu-Mureş, Romania), and other professionals with work experience, in order to determine what genres are the students more likely to encounter in the future, what sort of tasks they have to be able to perform in their profession. Specialized texts used by horticulturists belonging to different genres were gathered. A part of them has been analyzed from the following viewpoints: their specific structure; the communicative functions expressing specialized meanings; means of creating cohesion; expressing rhetorical functions; cognitive processes. The needs analysis and genre analysis are of great help in deciding what kind of tasks and activities can best prepare the students for their future profession.

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Mai bun decât originalul – Jobb, mint az eredeti

Author(s): Sándor-István Nagy / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The research takes account of several aspects of translation based on the experience gained within the Romanian-Hungarian translation course of our department, which has been carried out in cooperation with the Romanian Language and Literature Department of the University. Beside the translations of literary texts, the study notably focuses on works with historical content. Starting from the edifying examples of the historical text – related to the history of Transylvania, our goal is to present several linguistic characteristics that are specific to the process of translation from the Romanian language into Hungarian.

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Explicitation Strategies in the Translation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Author(s): Melinda Balázs / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Explicitation is considered an inherent feature of the process of translation irrespective of the languages involved. Other potential translation universals include disambiguation, simplification, use of conventional grammar, etc. Since translations are regarded as having a language of their own, the study of translation universals enables us to find out more about this ‘third code.’ My presentation is aimed at investigating how explicitation is realized in two different translations of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Wuthering Heights.

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Herztier – Aspecte ale traducerii literare

Author(s): Orsolya Nagy-Szilveszter / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Literary translation is not just a simple transposal of a discourse from a language into another, it is a form of creation, an embodiment of intercultural dialogue. The translator involved in the translation of literary texts has to confront a multitude of decisions in the process of recreating a literary work in another language and culture. This paper aims at highlighting and analysing several aspects of translating a literary text into the target language, focusing on examples drawn from Herta Müller’s novel entitled Herztier, its translation into Romanian by Nora Iuga – Animalul inimii – and into Hungarian by Nádori Lídia – Szívjószág.

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The Culture Specific Element – A Mark of the National Feature

Author(s): Bianca Oana Han / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The present article intends to shed light upon certain aspects regarding the literary translation from Romanian into English, focusing upon the issues implied by the intercultural and interlinguistic transfer of those terms that preserve the local and national atmosphere, thus constituting the specific of a language, the so-called ‘culture specific elements,’ CSEs.

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Лингвистични аспекти в правната терминология относно изразяване на права, включително и религиозните, в международноправни документи

Author(s): Kristina Krislova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The present study offers a brief discussion of the features of the modal verb shall in the International and European legal documents with a view to religious tolerance. For the purpose of the study documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations and The Charter of Fundamental rights of the European Union are used. The word shall is analysed from the perspective of usage, grammar and meaning. Discussed are the linguistic functions of shall in the General language and its deontic function in Legal English. The study identifies the frequent use of shall and its different meanings in legal texts. In considering the problems which shall presents in legal texts the study then proceeds with discussing the usage and meaning of shall in the English text and the Bulgarian translation of the Declaration and the Charter. Analysed are the typical translation models of shall in Bulgarian.

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Преводът на исторически реалии от гръцки език

Author(s): Dimitrios Roumpos / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Greek, Modern (1453-) Publication Year: 0

The article covers issues in translating historical culture specifics from the Greek language. Translatability of such a specific lexical unit is admissible in principle, as long as the national and historical cultural colour is preserved in accordance with the artistic experience of the target environment and with the particular social and cultural context, provided that there is no excessive transcribing or providing of numerous explanations of the culture specifics in the fiction translation. The article places emphasis on the fact that solution should be sought on a case-bycase basis, in accordance with the choices, made by the translator, their skills, attitude and the linguistic tradition.

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LOOK OUT! THERE’S A TRAP! – IDIOMS IN HUNGARIAN TRANSLATION

Author(s): Albina Puskás-Bajkó / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

From the translator’s point of view, collocations and idioms belong to rather demanding text units, which often require a high level of linguistic, communicative, cultural and translational competence. In most cases, when an idiom is translated, either its meaning is changed or it is meaningless. The analysis is primarily expected to offer an insight into the ways in which lexical collocations and idioms are commonly perceived and treated among students at the English class whose mother tongue is Hungarian. In addition, it will feed into a more general picture of translation practices in Hungary and Transylvania.

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Łacińsko-polski wokabularz Bartłomieja z Bydgoszczy. Opis podstawy źródłowej

Author(s): Maria Trawińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The purpose of the article is to show the difficulties involved in compiling the Latin-Polish dictionary of Bartholomeus de Bydgostia.  Based on selected entries, the differences between the Latin and Polish parts are shown. They result from the different way of defining the Latin entries, whose author was the German humanist J. Reuchlin, and the nature of their Polish explanations added by Bartholomew. Very often, Latin headwords are explained by close synonyms of both Latin and Polish words, which do not form a coherent whole. For this reason, the meaning cannot be precisely determined for all words.

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Les seuils des registres de langue dans le processus de traduction

Author(s): Simona-Aida Manolache,Simona-Aida MANOLACHE / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

A major challenge in translating a literary text is posed by the need to replicate the linguistic registers of the original. This is the case, in particular in contemporary literature which reflects the richness and diversity of various communities and mentalities by freely exploiting resources from all linguistic registers. Modern readers are used to encounter informal and slang words and structures in what is already considered canonical literature. However, for a translator to capture the socio-linguistic and cultural nuances of the original and replicate them in translation could be an almost insurmountable hurdle. My article discusses the translation of Muriel Barbey’s novel, “L’élégance du hérisson”, into Romanian in order to highlight the thin borderline between the informal and the standard linguistic registers and to emphasize the challenges faced by the novel’s translator.

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ЖЕНСКИЕ ОБРАЗЫ В ТРЕХ ПЕРЕВОДАХ «АЛИСЫ В СТРАНЕ ЧУДЕС» ЛЬЮИСА КЭРРОЛЛА

Author(s): Irina Shishkova / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article highlights the analysis of transformations of female images in the three well-known translations of “‘Alice in Wonderland”’ by Lewis Carroll: Vladimir Nabokov’s (1923), N.M. Demurova’s (1965) and B.V. Zakhoder’s (1972). Each translated text of the famous fairy tale is original. If the works of Demurova and Zakhoder enjoyed tremendous popularity in the Soviet Union, Nabokov's translation came to the Russian reader only after perestroika and to this day causes heated discussions among the numerous admirers of ‘Alice.’ The rendering of the character names and places presents a particular difficulty in the translation, as well as the English context itself. In this regard, it is interesting to consider the artistic features of verbal portraits of female characters: Alice herself, her sisters, the Duchess and the Queen. The three masters approached the interpretation of the Alice image, the prototype of which was Alice Liddell, in their own way. As you know, Nabokov renamed Alice in Anya, Demurova retained her Englishness, subtly emphasizing the mentality of the little Victorian, and Zakhoder turned her into an inquisitive girl, interested in everything in the world. Each Russian version presents witty parodies, subtle idioms, elegant wordplay, funny epithets, designed to replace Carroll’s unique style. In Nabokov’s translation the scene is laid in pre-revolutionary Russia. Demurova paid special attention to preserving the original, and Zakhoder called his translation a retelling, although he treated Carroll's text not less carefully.

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II. Abdülhamid Döneminden Bir Osmanlı Aydını Portresi: Selanikli Tevfik

Author(s): Mustafa Oğuz / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Tevfik of Thessaloniki lived between 1857-1910. He combined his fifty-three years of life with journalism, teaching, translation and writing. He translated the works of French writers into Turkish with his excellent French. Tevfik of Thessaloniki worked as a history teacher in schools and as a teacher in the School of Law. His articles, translations and serials were published in the newspapers and magazines of his time. He died in Vienna, where he went for treatment. Tevfik of Thessaloniki, who started journalism since his student years, was an Ottoman intellectual who was passionate about this profession. In this article, the life of Tevfik of Thessaloniki, the newspapers and magazines he worked for, the works he translated, his copyright studies and personality will be told. With the spread of newspapers and magazines, the number of prominent journalists and writers in the history of the press had also increased. One of these journalists and writers was Tevfik of Thessaloniki. In this study, it will be tried to contribute to the biography of Tevfik of Thessaloniki, who was in a respected position as a writer and writer throughout his life, within the framework of his life, works and what was written about him, but today he has turned into a forgotten person. Tevfik of Thessaloniki, a value that was accepted as a sheikh al-muharririn in his lifetime but then forgotten, is waiting to be rediscovered with his thousands of articles left between the pages of newspapers and magazines.

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PROBLEMI PRI PREVOĐENJU RODNO NEUTRALNOG JEZIKA SA NJEMAČKOG NA BOSANSKI/HRVATSKI/SRPSKI JEZIK

Author(s): Džana Zahirović / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Upotreba rodno neutralnog jezika dobila je na značaju u mnogim zemljama posljednjih godina jer pomaže u prevazilaženju rodnih stereotipa i promoviše rodnu ravnopravnost, ali i zbog recentnih trendova u izražavanju različitih rodnih identiteta koji prevazilaze binarne rodne podjele. Ovaj trend ima velikog uticaja i na posao prevoditelja/prevoditeljki, posebno kada se prevode tekstovi s jezika koji već ima neke rodno neutralne oblike, kao što je njemački, na jezik kao što je bosanski, koji nema ustaljene rodno neutralne jezičke forme kao reč divers kojom se u njemačkom jeziku ozačavaju rodno neutralne osobe. Kroz osnove prevođenja koje smo usvojili na fakultetu, jedan od naših profesora je pokušao posao prevođenja dočarati putem metafore: "Vaš zadatak je preneti značenje. Zamislite da to značenje ima kaput, a taj kaput simbolizira jezik. Vaša vještina leži u pažljivom skidanju tog kaputa sa značenja i oblačenju kaputa drugog jezika, zadržavajući pri tome istinsko značenje netaknutim."

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Přednosti a omezení korpusové analýzy dvojjazyčného materiálu

Author(s): Aneta Čermáková / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Příspěvek vychází z možností výzkumu na paralelních korpusech a soustředí se na problematiku korpusové analýzy dvojjazyčného materiálu spadající do oblasti kontrastivního studia jazyků. Nastiňuje dvě skupiny proměnných neboli faktorů ovlivňujících korpusovou analýzu na příkladu česko-ruského InterCorpu verze 15 a česko-ruského paralelního korpus NKRJa. Podrobněji se zabývá vybranými faktory a vyvozuje z nich přednosti a omezení dané analýzy

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“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs

Author(s): Dorota Filipczak / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article engages with the protagonist of The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1984 as The Wild Girl. Filipczak discusses scholarly publications that analyze the role of Mary Magdalene, and redeem her from the sexist bias which reduced her to a repentant whore despite the lack of evidence for this in the Gospels. The very same analyses demonstrate that the role of Mary Magdalene as Christ’s first apostle silenced by patriarchal tradition was unique. While Roberts draws on the composite character of Mary Magdalene embedded in the traditional association between women, sexuality and sin, she also moves far beyond this, by reclaiming the female imaginary as an important part of human connection to the divine. At the same time, Roberts recovers the conjunction between sexuality and spirituality by framing the relationship of Christ and Mary Magdalene with The Song of Songs, which provides the abject saint from Catholic tradition with an entirely different legacy of autonomy and expression of female desire, be it sexual, maternal or spiritual. The intertext connected with The Song of Songs runs consistently through The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene. This, in turn, sensitizes the readers to the traces of the Song in the Gospels, which never quote from it, but they rely heavily on the association between Christ and the Bridegroom, while John 20 shows the encounter between the risen Christ and Mary Magdalene in the garden whose imagery is strongly suggestive of the nuptial meeting in The Song of Songs.

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A Catholic New Woman Artist: A Contradiction in Terms? Sex, Music and Religion in George Moore’s Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa

Author(s): Jan Jędrzejewski / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper offers an overview of George Moore’s long-neglected novels Evelyn Innes (1898) and its sequel Sister Teresa (1901), focusing on the presentation of their eponymous protagonist as a woman, an artist, and a committed if independent-minded Roman Catholic. The two novels constitute an extended study of the relationship between artistic inspiration, sensuality, and religious experience: Evelyn Innes, an opera singer who ultimately chooses to join a religious order and become a nun, tries to reconcile in her life the conflicting demands of her vocation as an artist, her passionate nature, her personal and religious loyalties, and the expectations of Victorian society. Focusing on the novels’ interwoven musical and religious imagery, the chapter traces the presentation of Evelyn’s growth as a character, arguing, in the context of the development of late Victorian fiction, that she emerges as a rare example of a Catholic New Woman artist; at the same time, the novels shed some light on George Moore’s perception of the interface of the issues of aesthetics, gender, and religion in the context of turn-of-the-century British and Irish social, literary, and cultural life.

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Cherishing the Body: Embodiment and the Intersubjective World in Michèle Roberts’s Playing Sardines

Author(s): Marta Goszczyńska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The essay sets out to analyze selected stories from Michèle Roberts’s 2001 collection, Playing Sardines, in the light of theories of embodiment. Opposing the Cartesian body/mind dualism, these theories refuse to view the body merely as an object or an imperfect instrument over which the mind must exercise control. Instead, they insist on recognizing the embodied character of human experience by portraying the body as intricately engaged with the surrounding world. As I will demonstrate, these views find their reflection in Roberts’s fiction, whose purpose has always been, as she declares, “to rescue the body and cherish it and love it and touch it and smell it and make it into language” (“January”). This self-appointed project seems to me to be consistent with the approach of embodiment theorists, who also “rescue” the reputation of the body by identifying it as an ethically productive locus of intersubjectivity. My argument in the essay will be threefold. First of all, I will discuss Roberts’s stories as sharing with the philosophies of embodiment their skepticism towards the Cartesian body/mind dualism. In particular, I will focus on stories depicting the negative consequences of privileging the mind over the body, a stance that Sonia Kruks identifies as leading to what she refers to as “antagonistic intersubjectivity” (39–42). In the second part, I will move on to discuss scenes dramatizing the moment of liberation, granted to many of Roberts’s characters as they break free from damaging interpersonal relationships and/or move towards more positive interactions with others. Finally, in the third part of the essay, I will consider these positive, mutually affirmative experiences of intersubjectivity.

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On Spaces Within and Between: Dorota Filipczak’s (Embodied) Visions of the Sacred

Author(s): Monika Kocot / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

On the cover of her debut book of poems entitled W cieniu doskonałej pomarańczy, Dorota Filipczak shares an insight which might be treated not only as an important gateway to the realm of her poetry but also to her academic writing—“I’m passionate about the sacred in poetry and prose, and ways of its unconventional interpretation. Writing poetry and literary criticism is like looking at one and the same landscape through two separate windows” (translation mine). This essay explores a number of unconventional interpretations of the sacred in Filipczak’s poems, but it also points to similar practices in her academic writing. The image of two windows and one landscape serves as a metaphor describing the two modes of Filipczak’s writing. In order to show how this metaphor works in her poetry, I look at selected pieces from all her books of poems. In my analyses, I refer to essays by Marek Czuku and Wojciech Ligęza who focus on the link between body, mind, landscape, and myth in Filipczak’s poetry. My intention is to develop their insights and show how various metaphors of the body/body-mind are interconnected with the theme of spirituality, female empowerment, trauma and Polish history, and how they foreground the importance of places and spaces in Filipczak’s writing.

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