POLISH-RUSSIAN WAR UNDER THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER – TRANSLATION OF MASŁOWSKA’S LANGUAGE INTO ENGLISH

• Authors: Chyrzyński Tomasz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the analysis of English translation of non-standard language in Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną by Masłowska. The decisions made by the translator were investigated in terms of Hejwowski’s techniques of translating language varieties. The analysis of chosen expressions proves that in most cases the translator decided to adapt the text to the target readership and rather resigned from the author-oriented rendering. It shows that a culture-specific novel is intelligible for the target reader when the language is lucid.

Keywords

EN

translation,; target reader,; non-standard language,; Polish literature,; Dorota Masłowska

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: XII
• Pages: 55-66

Dates

published

2010-12-01

Contributors

author

Chyrzyński Tomasz

• Instytut Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Społecznej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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