WORKING BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON: THE TRANSLATION OF ‘MOONLIGHTING’ IN MULTILINGUAL OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. A REVIEW.

• Authors: Pietro MANZELLA

Title variants

PL

PRACUJĄC W ŚWIETLE KSIĘŻYCA: TŁUMACZENIE TERMINU „MOONLIGHTING” W DOKUMENTACH WIELOJĘZYCZNYCH. PRZEGLĄD.

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the notion of ‘moonlighting’, which in industrial relations discourse refers to secondary employment performed in addition to the employee’s main job. As this concept might lend itself to different interpretations in English, the aim of this paper is to consider whether the ambiguous nature of this wording in source texts is also reflected in target texts, exploring how translators deal with it when rendering this concept in other languages. To this end, documents published by international institutions in English and their translations in French, Italian and Spanish  were compared and contrasted, investigating the strategies put in place by translators to convey the meaning of “moonlighting” in other languages. 

PL

Artykuł analizuje pojęcie „moonlighting”, które w dyskursie o stosunkach pomiędzy pracodawcą i pracownikami odnosi się do dodatkowego zatrudnienia wykonywanego poza główną pracą pracownika. Ponieważ koncepcja ta może podlegać różnym interpretacjom w języku angielskim, celem tego artykułu jest rozważenie, czy dwuznaczny charakter tego sformułowania w tekstach źródłowych znajduje również odzwierciedlenie w tekstach docelowych, badając, w jaki sposób tłumacze radzą sobie z tym przekładając to pojęcie na inne języki. W tym celu dokumenty opublikowane przez instytucje międzynarodowe w języku angielskim oraz ich tłumaczenia na francuski, włoski i hiszpański zostały porównane i skontrastowane, badając przy tym strategie stosowane przez tłumaczy tak, aby oddać znaczenie „moonlighting” w innych językach.

Keywords

EN

moonlighting; translation; terminology; English; industrial relations; metaphor

PL

moonlighting; tłumaczenie; terminologia; język angielski; stosunki pomiędzy pracodawcą i pracownikami; metafora.; moonlighting; tłumaczenie; terminologia; język angielski; stosunki pomiędzy pracodawcą i pracownikami; metafora.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Comparative Legilinguistics
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 39
• Pages: 5-20

Dates

published

2019-12-04

Contributors

author

Pietro MANZELLA

• Senior Research Fellow, Association for International and Comparative Studies in the field of Labour Law and Industrial Relations (ADAPT, www.adapt.it)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/cl.2019.39.1