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Cockney w polskich przekładach Murzyna z załogi „Narcyza” Josepha Conrada

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Kujawska-Lis E.

Prace Językoznawcze

2011

issue 13

141-155

The Nigger of the “Narcissus” is a novel in which linguistic differentiation plays an important role in identifying particular characters, and in contributing to their verisimilitude. Linguistic polyphony provides the reader with information concerning social status and geographical origin of the novel’s characters. A prominent role is given to the anti-hero – Donkin, an East-End Londoner, who appropriately speaks cockney. The author does not attempt to stylize Donkin’s speech in order to reconstruct all the? features typical of this language variety. He mostly employs phonological features to signal Donkin’s cockney utterances. Despite the fact that both Polish translations introduce linguistic varieties into their texts, the outcomes are not as successful as those featured in the original. The first reason is that both Lemański and Zieliński use colloquialization to reconstruct Donkin’s speech, a procedure they also employ with respect to the? other characters representing the lower class. Consequently, Donkin’s speech is clearly differentiated from the standard English used by the narrator, but not from other sailors. The second reason is that lexical stylization is frequently absent as it strongly depends on the subject-matter of the message; whereas in the original, graphological forms are introduced more consistently as they are independent of/on? what Donkin talks about. Finally, lexical colloquialization, while pointing to the social status of a character, cannot provide target readers with any additional information implied by the very fact of using cockney not only for purposes of emphatic loudness, vigorous body language, attentioncatching utterances, but also as indicative of the manifestations of arrogance, insolence and impertinence.

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

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Kujawska-Lis E.

Prace Językoznawcze

2010

issue 12

123-138

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.

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Cockney w polskich przekładach Murzyna z załogi „Narcyza” Josepha Conrada

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