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The Problem of Translation Equivalence: Analysis of the Czech Translation of the Book The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ, Sabina
This M.A. thesis entitled "The Problem of Translation Equivalence: Analysis of the Czech Translation of the Book The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson" aims to apply the translation quality assessment approach on the Czech translation of the thriller The President is Missing which was voted the worst translation of the year 2018 by the Czech Literary Translators' Guild. By employing Baker's (2011) approach towards the translation analysis in combination with the contrastive principles of TQA as presented by Zehnalová et al. (2015), the English source text along with the Czech target text translated by Ondřej Duha was carefully analysed from the point of view of the two-level monolingual-bilingual quality assessment. The translation errors discovered during the analysis were divided into five categories corresponding with the respective levels of language. As a result, this thesis briefly presents five areas of possible translation pitfalls - namely individual lexical units, equivalence above the word level, grammar, means of textual equivalence and pragmatic relations within the text - along with the commonly used translation strategies used for overcoming them. Subsequently, the theoretical framework is complemented by practical examples in the form of data samples extracted from the Czech target text. These examples present instances of an unsuccessful employment of the recommended translation techniques as well as an alternative translation solution taking into consideration the socio-cultural and socio-political relations of the source text.
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin: translation and stylistic analysis of three representative fragments
Dupalová, Petra ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Grmela, Josef (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the problems which may occur, while translating from English into Czech, using the novel Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by the American author James Baldwin. The practical part contains chosen extracts from The House Nigger. The theoretical part aims at the analysis of my translation. Special attention is paid to the problematic sections, which have been encountered while translating. Final decisions are provided with my comments often with regard to the helpful quotes from the books dealing with translation theories, especially by Jiří Levý and Dagmara Knittlová. KEY WORDS Translation, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, James Baldwin, proper names, measures, reference, lexical and stylistic aspect, diminutives, idioms grammatical equivalence, pragmatic equivalence, African American English, foreign language in the text, language creativity ABSTRAKT Tato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na problémy, které se mohou vyskytnout při překladu z anglického jazyka do českého. Jako podkladová práce slouží román Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone od amerického autora Jamese Baldwina. Praktická část obsahuje vybrané části z The House Nigger. Teoretická část má za cíl analyzovat překlad. Hlavní pozornost věnuji problémům, na které jsem při překladu narazila. Zde...
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin: translation and stylistic analysis of three representative fragments
Dupalová, Petra ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Grmela, Josef (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the problems which may occur, while translating from English into Czech, using the novel Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by the American author James Baldwin. The practical part contains chosen extracts from The House Nigger. The theoretical part aims at the analysis of my translation. Special attention is paid to the problematic sections, which have been encountered while translating. Final decisions are provided with my comments often with regard to the helpful quotes from the books dealing with translation theories, especially by Jiří Levý and Dagmara Knittlová. KEY WORDS Translation, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, James Baldwin, proper names, measures, reference, lexical and stylistic aspect, diminutives, idioms grammatical equivalence, pragmatic equivalence, African American English, foreign language in the text, language creativity ABSTRAKT Tato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na problémy, které se mohou vyskytnout při překladu z anglického jazyka do českého. Jako podkladová práce slouží román Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone od amerického autora Jamese Baldwina. Praktická část obsahuje vybrané části z The House Nigger. Teoretická část má za cíl analyzovat překlad. Hlavní pozornost věnuji problémům, na které jsem při překladu narazila. Zde...
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Comparison of two Czech translations of John Steinbeck's novella "Tortilla Flat"
Muchová, Marie ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Grmela, Josef (referee)
This thesis aims to compare two Czech translations of John Steinbeck's novel Tortilla flat considering the theories of acknowledged translatologists (Levý, Knittlová, Krijtová). For Steinbeck's work differentiation of the language used in direct speech from the language used by the narrator by using colloquial and slang expressions is characteristic, so Steinbeck's translators were to cope with an uneasy task to find a functional equivalent of the different language layers in the target language. The thesis focuses among other on the means by which the differentiation was reached by two different translators considering the development of functional aspect in Czech translatology. A very significant element in Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat is the aim to outline the local atmosphere by using local names, facts and not translated Spanish expressions, which needs to be transferred to the target language considering the requirement both to preserve the local atmosphere in the translation and to create a translation, which is a valuable and understandable piece of literature in the target language.
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