Idiolekt niemieckojęzycznych bohaterów opowiadania Falk. Wspomnienie Josepha Conrada w przekładzie polskim

• Authors: Kujawska-Lis Ewa

Title variants

EN

German-speaking Characters’ Idiolects in the Polish Translation of Joseph Conrad’s Falk. A Reminiscence

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Falk is a story in which language and its differentiations are important elements of the narration. Conrad introduces linguistic polyphony for two main reasons: in order to differentiate the characters and provide them with verisimilitude, and to hint at the limitations of human communication. Language allows the reader to place characters in the fictional world and provides additional information about them, mainly their national background. The author differentiates his bilingual characters by means of specific linguistic features. Captain Hermann’s speech is characterized by frequent exclamations in German, resulting from his code-switching, as well as phonetic and grammatical interference. He can, however, also produce speech free from any interference. Siegers’s speech is noted for his unusual pronunciation of English words, while Schomberg’s English does not show any influence of German. In each case specific features of a given bilingual speaker’s language are connected with his function in the story and connected to its semantic level. In the Polish version of the story the major functions of specific language use are retained as the translator, Aniela Zagórska, does not use any neutralizing techniques. By means of transfer and stylization she achieves a similar effect as that of the original, although some of her solutions are debatable, especially from the point of view of verisimilitude with respect to incorrect pronunciation.

Keywords

PL

dwujęzyczność; polifonia językowa; przekład literacki; Conrad, „Falk”

EN

bilingualism; linguistic polyphony; literary translation; Conrad, „Falk”

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Językoznawcze
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 123-138

Contributors

author

Kujawska-Lis Ewa

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie