IDIOM TRANSLATION STRATEGIES: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON POLISH TRANSLATIONS OF LEWIS CARROLL'S ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

• Authors: Adamczyk Magdalena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Idiom (from Greek idios 'own, private'; late 16th c.) is most frequently referred to as a string of language whose meaning cannot be pieced together from the meanings of its component parts. As such it relies heavily on the interdependencies between formal and semantic levels of language. This makes it a highly complex linguistic phenomenon, if only intra-lingually. What exacerbates the problem with idiom is the fact that the form/meaning relationship should not be expected to be identical across languages, unless these allow for historical, typological or cultural relatedness. That is why idiom is often described as a piece of language which does not translate literally. Although the definition of this type proves highly imprecise in a lot of instances, it properly points to difficulties involved in a largely unexplored domain of idiom translation. It is the key aim of the present study to suggest methods of obviating these difficulties, which is hoped to be achieved by cataloguing viable strategies of idiom translation, as employed in four English-to-Polish translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Keywords

EN

DIOM TRANSLATION; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION STRATEGIES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Linguistica Silesiana
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 221-234
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Adamczyk Magdalena

• Magdalena Adamczyk, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. H. Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064715