Strategies for Expressing Power Relationships in the Slovenian Translation of Amitav Ghosh's Novel the Hungry Tide

• Authors: Tina Karče
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explores various narrative and rhetorical strategies for expressing power relationships in the Slovenian translation of Amitav Ghosh’s novel “The Hungry Tide”. Based on critical discourse analysis and the model of micro- and macrostructural shifts developed by van Leuven-Zwart, the paper provides a classification of the aforementioned strategies based on a pilot study of the source text and its translation into Slovenian. Illustrating the strategies with chosen examples, the paper then discusses the solutions adopted by the translator, focusing on general issues concerning the cultural transfer of relationships characterized by inequality in terms of social power.

Keywords

EN

critical discourse analysis; postcolonial criticism; power relationships; social power

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 174-180

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Tina Karče

• University of Ljubljana

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0015