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Francisco Ayala and his Contribution to Translation Studies
Buaiscia, Romana ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Charvátová, Anežka (referee)
The aim of this Master's thesis is to present the renowned Spanish author Francisco Ayala as a translator and translation theorist. The core of the thesis is then the analysis of Ayala's main writings concerning translation. Moreover, we outline the history of translation and translation studies in Spain and Hispanic America to put Ayala's work into a broader context. We also inquire into other areas of Ayala's interest closely related to translation − publishing, lexicography and professional proofreading. To conclude the thesis, we discuss the general situation of the exiled Spanish translators who worked in Hispanic America during the Franco's regime.
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Annotated translation of the study Fonetometría: una propuesta de protocolo, Phonica, 2, 2006
Zábojová, Lenka ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Obdržálková, Vanda (referee)
Abstact This bachelor's thesis is composed of two parts: a translation of the chosen text and a commentary of the translation. The direction of the translation was from Spanish to Czech. The selected text is a phonetic article which refers to the description of the phonetometry protocol. The author of this article is Edmon Elgström Misol. The commentary is focused on the analysis of the original text,on the problems of the translation along with solution, and on the typology of translation shifts. Key words: Phonetometry, commentary of translation, problems of translation, typology of translation shifts.
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Paragraph as a Cognitive Unit of Non-Literary Texts
Obdržálková, Vanda ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Eichl, Radek (referee) ; Aurová, Miroslava (referee)
The present thesis analyses the paragraph structuring of non-literary texts in Czech and Spanish and in translations from Spanish into Czech. Paragraph has been defined as a textual and cognitive unit, which is characterized by a unity of topic and inner coherence and plays an important role in text production and interpretation. The central part of the thesis presents the results of an empirical analysis of three groups of non-literary texts consisting in a three-stage comparison of comparable and parallel texts. The first aim of the analysis is to detect whether there are any culture-bound differences in paragraph length and thematic structure between comparable Spanish and Czech texts. The quantitative analysis was also focused on average length of sentences. The second aim is to describe the translators' approach by comparing the translations with their respective originals. Subsequently, the translations were compared with comparable original Czech texts. Based on this comparison it has been determined to what extent the translations are oriented towards the pole of adequacy (reflecting the values of the source language), or on the contrary, towards the pole of acceptability (reflecting the values of the target language). A translation analysis attempts to describe the factors influencing the...
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Commented translation:Frida Kahlo, 1907-2007, selected chapters
Marksová, Romana ; Uličný, Miloslav (advisor) ; Králová, Jana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to translate six chapters from the book Frida Kahlo: 1907-2007, which originated under the guidance of the mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, and present a commentary of the translation. The first part the commentary provides a general translation analysis of the original text. The second focuses on translation problems and shifts and their solutions. The last part describes the selected translation method. There is an annex attached, consisting of the original text and the respective painting reproductions.
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Rhetorical Figures in the Translation of Political Speeches (the 1970s and 1980s)
Tihelková, Martina ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Eichl, Radek (referee)
The diploma work is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The first part is further divided into the theoretical linguistic subsection and theoretical political science subsection. The theoretical linguistic part comprises information on metaphors, metonymies and synecdoches taken from Czech and Spanish linguistic handbooks and is focused on a phenomenon of levelling and it also deals with the function of the aforementioned rhetorical figures. In the first part there is also a chapter on the rhetorical style and translation of rhetorical figures. The second, practical part deals with the analysis of the rhetorical figures in selected political speeches, their function, frequency and possible levelling when translating them into the target language. The analysis is carried out on the basis of a comparable sample of political speeches in the Czech and Spanish languages. They are the speeches of two important personalities of the 1970s, President Ludvík Svoboda's speeches in the Czech language and in terms of the Spanish linguistic background - the speeches of his Chilean counterpart - President Salvador Allende, and their Czech translation. Key words: levelling, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, translation, political speech
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Figures of speech in non-literary translations
Mazancová, Zuzana ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Eichl, Radek (referee)
The present thesis deals with figures of speech in non-literary texts and with the problems connected to their translation. The first part is dedicated to the theoretical description of figures of speech. First we deal with their definition according to the Czech and Spanish terminology and next we proceed to the figures that can be expected in popular science texts. We deal mainly with metaphors, their classification and opinions of translation scientists about the possibilities of their translation; but we mention also simile, metonymy and synecdoche. The second chapter is dedicated to popular science texts, to the problems connected to their translation, to the presence of metaphors in this type of texts and to their translation. In the second part we describe the analysed texts and the methods used in our work; the third part deals with the results of our analysis. During our analysis we found the same amount of figures of speech in both languages. Metaphors predominate in both languages, but while in Czech they represent the absolute majority of all figures, in Spanish they represent only a half of all the examples. Personification also appears many times in Spanish texts, but in Czech texts it doesn't appear in such a large measure. Metonymy, synecdoche and rhetorical question are represented...
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Proper Names as a Potential Indicator of "Strangeness" in Translation of Non-literary Texts
Bičíková, Romana ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Hoffmannová, Jana (referee)
The subject of this thesis is proper names in Czech and Spanish language and proper names in translation from Spanish into Czech. The theoretical part of the thesis comprises of an overview of the current state of investigation in the field both in Czech and in Spanish. In Czech linguistics, onomastics is a comparatively developed discipline. In Spanish, it is mostly grammatical manuals that deal with proper names. In both languages, authors tend to agree on the definition and classification of proper names into anthroponyms, toponyms and chrematonyms; however, Spanish authors usually do not separate chrematonyms as a category under such name. Furthermore, nobody has yet defined or classified the functions of proper names in Spanish language (an action which has already been done for the Czech language). Opinions on the translation of proper names differ to a large degree. Authors recognize proper names as polyfunctional units and agree that their translation (or non-translation) is in large measure conditioned by norms and specific historically conditioned conventions; by the function of the text, text type and genre; by the relationship of the working languages and so on. Authors also suggest their own set of strategies which can be used in the transfer of proper names from one language into...
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Annotated translation:Villar Raso, M., Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Madrid 1977
Trägerová, Lucie ; Králová, Jana (advisor) ; Obdržálková, Vanda (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to provide a translation and a commentary of a number of chapters from "Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana", written by the Spanish author Manuel Villar Raso. The first part of the translation commentary will contain a stylistic analysis of the translated text, the second will focus on grammar, syntax and vocabulary used in the original text. The third part will outline the typology of problems that we came across during the translation process. Our main focus is to provide the Czech reader with the most functional translation of the original possible, keeping all stylistic and grammatical norms. The original text can be found in the annex. Key words: translation, translation analysis, stylistics, grammar, syntax, lexical analysis, translation problem
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