Challenging the traditional axioms : translation into a non-mother tongue / Nike K. Pokorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pokorn, Nike K. (Nike Kocijančič)

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 62.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translation into a non-mother tongue or inverse translation, especially of literary texts, has always been frowned upon within Translation Studies in Western cultures and regarded by literary scholars and linguists as an activity of dubious worth, doomed to fail. The study, which received an award from EST in 2001, sets out to challenge the established view and to critically question some of the axiomatic assumptions of Western theorists. Its challenge is supported by extensive empirical research involving reader response to translations of specific literary texts. The conclusion reached is that the quality of the translation, its fluency and acceptability in the target language environment depend primarily on the as yet undetermined individual abilities of the particular translator, his/her translation strategy and knowledge of the source and target cultures, and not on his/her mother tongue or the direction in which s/he is translating.

Contents:

Intro

Challenging the Traditional Axioms

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Open definitions of the terms ``native speaker'' and ``mother tongue''

The concept of ``mother tongue''

Defining the term ``native speaker''

Translation into a non-mother tongue in translation theory

Mystification of the native speaker - the translator as owner of the TL

The idealisation of the translator - a perfect bilingual translator

A hidden traditional conviction

Translation into a non-mother tongue and team translation as a part of translation practice

Method and corpus for analysis

Granting the status of a native speaker to immigrants

Presentation of the translators analysed in the corpus

Ivan Cankar and his style

Analysis of the texts

The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy

A Cup of Coffee

Children and Old People

The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy by Henry Leeming

A Cup of Coffee by Louis Adamic

A Cup of Coffee by Agata Zmajic and M. Peters-Roberts

A Cup of Coffee by Joze Paternost

A Cup of Coffee by Elza Jereb and Alasdair MacKinnon

Children and Old People by Anthony J. Klancar

Children and Old People by A. J. Klancar and George R. Noyes

Conclusion of the analysis

Louis Adamic

Agata Zmajic and M. Peters-Roberts

Joze Paternost

Elza Jereb and Alasdair MacKinnon

Henry Leeming

Anthony J. Klancar

Anthony J. Klancar and George R. Noyes

Native speakership in the analysed translations

Native speaker intuitions

Conclusion

Appendix I. Questionnaire

Appendix II. Responses in the questionnaire

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

ISBN:

9786612156816

9781282156814

1282156810

9789027294531

9027294534

OCLC:

70774141