Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2019-12-20DOI: 10.15388/vertstud.2019.11
M. Wardle
{"title":"Fact and Fiction: The Contribution of Archives to the Study of Literary Translation","authors":"M. Wardle","doi":"10.15388/vertstud.2019.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/vertstud.2019.11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the role of traditional physical archives within Translation Studies research, investigating the contribution that such resources can add, providing information that otherwise would not be available in existing scholarly volumes, academic journals and digital material. The question is illustrated with the specific case of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and its first two translations into Italian, carried out respectively in 1936 by Cesare Giardini and 1950 by Fernanda Pivano. Both translations were published by Mondadori, Italy’s largest publishing company, as part of two different series, I romanzi della palma and the later Medusa collection.Adopting a microhistory approach, the study of these translations, through the resource-rich archives of the Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori in Milan, can shed light on a number of issues that the text alone cannot provide: documentation, including the other books published in the same series, highlights the target audience that Mondadori were seeking to address; the paratextual elements of the books themselves are revealing of the prominence (or otherwise) of American literature in general and Fitzgerald in particular within the Italian literary polysystem at the time of their publication; in the case of the first translation, readers’ reports on the novel indicate how the censors of the Fascist regime might receive the somewhat racy themes contained in the book, while, in the case of the 1950 translation, correspondence between the publisher, literary agents and the translator herself highlight the many issues surrounding the ultimate publication of the volume.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46773065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2019-12-20DOI: 10.15388/vertstud.2019.5
Ramón Méndez González
{"title":"Specialized Terminology in the Video Game Industry: Neologisms and their Translation","authors":"Ramón Méndez González","doi":"10.15388/vertstud.2019.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/vertstud.2019.5","url":null,"abstract":"The video game industry is growing at a very fast pace. At present, it is the biggest entertainment industry in the world, selling even more than film and music industries. Newly-developed technologies provide video game creators with the necessary tools to develop more complex game worlds, and user interaction is more important than ever. Each one has its own terminology and complexities, which must be perfectly understood in order to deliver high-quality work. Therefore, translators must be deeply aware of how all these technologies and game worlds work. More importantly, they need to be familiar with the specialized terminology they are going to come across while working in the video game industry. This paper is part of a series of studies where a corpus of 300 games is used to analyze the terminology needs of video game translation and interpreting. Specifically, this paper focuses on the relevance of neologisms—as they are one of the basic traits that define a specialized language—and defines the type of neologisms that can be found when localizing a video game with the overall goal of proving that they are common in the video game industry.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48400162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2019-12-20DOI: 10.15388/vertstud.2019.10
H. Vaezian, Fatemeh Ghaderi Bafti
{"title":"On Optional Shifts in Translation from Persian into English","authors":"H. Vaezian, Fatemeh Ghaderi Bafti","doi":"10.15388/vertstud.2019.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/vertstud.2019.10","url":null,"abstract":"Some changes always take place in the process of transferring the meaning embedded in the source text into the target text. The present paper aims at investigating the formal dissimilarities between the source and target texts through the examination of all optional shifts made at word, phrase and clause/sentence levels. To this end, Pekkanen’s (2010) model was applied to the English translation of a Persian novel ‘Journey to Heading 270 Degrees’ into English. Optional shifts were identified and analyzed through a comparative linguistic analysis between the source and target texts. 926 instances of optional shifts were identified in translation of the novel into English, amongst which shifts of expansion-addition (203 instances) were the most dominant type. Moreover, it was revealed that optional shifts at a clause/sentence level with a total of 554 instances were more frequent than optional shifts at a phrase level (161instances) and word level (220 instances).","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43981242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.5
H. Vaezian
{"title":"The web as a corpus: a resource for translation","authors":"H. Vaezian","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.5","url":null,"abstract":"[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] \u0000Accessing ready-made corpora may not be always easy. This is especially true for less dominant languages such as Persian for which the number of available corpora is very limited. Moreover, most existing corpora are domain specific, which implies that they supply a limited range of genres and text types. They, thus, may not always contain the information the translator is looking for. Drawing on the world wide web as a big corpus, however, is not subject to such limitations. The web, in fact, can be considered as a very large multilingual corpus containing texts in almost all languages and all text types. The present paper reports the results obtained from a collaborative experience in which undergraduate English translation students from the Department of translation Studies of Allameh Tabataba’i University made use of Google search engine and webascorpus web concordancer to extract translationally-relevant data from the web.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43702066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.7
Adriano Cerri
{"title":"Lietuvių literatūros vertimai į italų kalbą: dešimtmečio apžvalga (2008–2018)","authors":"Adriano Cerri","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.7","url":null,"abstract":"[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba] \u0000Straipsnyje pristatoma pastarojo dešimtmečio (2008–2018 m.) vertimų iš lietuvių į italų kalbą apžvalga. Visi autoriui žinomi lietuvių kūrinių vertimai į italų kalbą apžvelgiami pagal žanrus: proza, poezija, eseistika ir dramaturgija. Analizė atskleidė, kad poezija yra labiausiai verčiamas žanras, tačiau per nagrinėjamą laikotarpį buvo išleisti ir keli reikšmingi romanai bei esė. Analizėje nustatytas terminus post quem – 2007 m.: tais metais Lietuva buvo Turino knygų mugės garbės viešnia. Šia apžvalga siekiama ne tik atnaujinti duomenis apie lietuvių literatūrą Italijoje, bet ir aptarti dabartinę jos padėtį. Iš statistinių duomenų įžvelgiama teigiama tendencija, t. y. pastebimas nuolatinis išverstų kūrinių skaičiaus augimas. Pažymėtina, kad per pastaruosius penkerius metus buvo išversta beveik dvigubai daugiau negu per 2005– 2008 m. Tačiau tai, kad nuolat auga vertimų, o ne nuolatinių vertėjų skaičius, byloja, kad tokie rezultatai buvo pasiekti ne dėl išorinių įvykių, bet dėl kelių atsidavusių, nenuilstančių vertėjų darbo.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43537422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.8
Edgaras Platelis
{"title":"Tarpinstitucinių terminologų susitikimų aktualijos","authors":"Edgaras Platelis","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.8","url":null,"abstract":"[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba] \u0000Šiame straipsnyje pateikta keletas impresijų apie pastarojo dešimtmečio ES institucijų (Europos Sąjungos Tarybos, Parlamento, Komisijos, Europos Centrinio Banko, Teisingumo Teismo, Audito Rūmų, Ekonomikos ir socialinių reikalų bei Regionų komitetų) lietuvių kalbos terminologų su- sitikimus, taip pat konkrečius tuose susitikimuose aptartų terminologinių problemų pavyzdžius. Nuo Lietuvos įstojimo į ES 2004 m. nemažai nuveikta vienodinant, derinant terminologiją, kuriant naujus terminus, ieškant pačio geriausio „vidurio kelio“ tarp teisinio minties tikslumo ir lietuvybės prioriteto daugiakalbystės orkestruotės fone.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47541242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.4
Eriola Qafzezi
{"title":"(Mis)Matches in Translation – A Case Study of “The Big Fat Giant” and its Albanian Version","authors":"Eriola Qafzezi","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.4","url":null,"abstract":"[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The aim of this article is to observe how semantic peculiarities travel across languages and cultures. The original book, The Big Fat Giant, by Roald Dahl lends itself perfectly to such a comparative study due to its linguistic and semantic features that need to be explored in order to understand how they were brought to the Albanian language and culture. Classifications of several levels at which mismatches occur are mentioned, such as mismatches at the level of syntax, semantics and phonetics. Examples are given to illustrate each level. The discussion is enriched with observations and examples from the intertextual level. The paper concludes with findings which refer to this tale in particular and recommendations for further research.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42360550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.2
Karolina Gimževskienė
{"title":"Raganos ir burtininkai lietuvių mitologinėse sakmėse ir jų atitikmenys rusų ir anglų kalbose","authors":"Karolina Gimževskienė","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.2","url":null,"abstract":"[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba] Šiame straipsnyje aptarta mitologinių tekstų vertimo problematika, trumpai apžvelgta lietuvių, keltų ir slavų mitologijų sąveika bei atlikta lyginamoji pasirinktos mitologinių būtybių grupės lietuvių, anglų ir rusų kalbose bei kultūrose analizė. Surinkta ir susisteminta medžiaga apie jas bei pateikti galimi vertimo ar aiškinimo papildomuose komentaruose variantai leidžia vertėjui geriau suprasti konkrečių mitologinių personažų panašumus bei skirtumus ir parinkti tinkamus lietuviškose mitologinėse sakmėse sutinkamų būtybių kultūrinius atitikmenis.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41547210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.6
A. Veisbergs
{"title":"The Translation Scene in Latvia (Latvian SSR) during the Stalinist Years","authors":"A. Veisbergs","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.6","url":null,"abstract":"[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] In this paper the author continues to explore the translation scene in 20th century Latvia (Veisbergs 2016a). The period under discussion covers 1945–1953, the years of Stalin’s rule after WWII until his death in 1953. The translation situation is described by discussing nationalisation and centralisation of publishers, book liquidation, censorship, ideologisation and politicisation, russification, Latvian émigré translations and other aspects of importance in an attempt to present the translation scene of the period from different angles. At the end of the article an extensive list of references is provided that can serve as an initial bibliography for more extensive research of translation practices in Latvia and beyond.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48846567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vertimo StudijosPub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.1
Екатерина Николаевна Бондаренко
{"title":"Урбанонимы в украинском и английском сленге: к вопросу об эквивалентности в переводе","authors":"Екатерина Николаевна Бондаренко","doi":"10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/VERTSTUD.2018.1","url":null,"abstract":"[straipsnis ir santrauka rusų kalba; santrauka anglų kalba] В статье рассматриваются семантические особенности номинаций городских объектов в украинском и английском сленге. Материалом исследования стали данные одноязычных словарей сленга украинского и английского языков 2003-2006 годов. На основе семантико-идеографической классификации лексики с семантическим компонентом «объект городской инфраструктуры» были выделены три лексико-семантические группы (ЛСГ). В результате компонентного анализа лексики удалось выделить синонимические ряды с высокой степенью соответствий в сравниваемых языках. Схожая активность сравниваемых лингвокультур в номинировании одних и тех же фрагментов действительности указывает на универсальную природу сленга как вербального проявления карнавального мировосприятия. В то же время структурирование лексики позволило выделить лакуны, которые могут представлять потенциальную переводческую проблему.","PeriodicalId":33080,"journal":{"name":"Vertimo Studijos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43868620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}