Fantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English

The paper discusses possible differences between translations of fantasy executed by translators who are themselves members of the source text’s audience, i.e. readers and enthusiasts of the genre, and those who are not, on the example of strategies used to render names of fantastic creatures in th...

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Autor principal:	Dorota Guttfeld
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Lenguaje:	EN FR PL
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2017
Materias:	translation fantasy neologisms Sapkowski Translating and interpreting P306-310
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:72b88ef48d6549518b57223dfb59ce132021-11-27T13:05:50ZFantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English10.12797/MOaP.23.2017.36.051689-91212391-6745https://doaj.org/article/72b88ef48d6549518b57223dfb59ce132017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/moap/article/view/489https://doaj.org/toc/1689-9121https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6745 The paper discusses possible differences between translations of fantasy executed by translators who are themselves members of the source text’s audience, i.e. readers and enthusiasts of the genre, and those who are not, on the example of strategies used to render names of fantastic creatures in the several English translations of works by Andrzej Sapkowski. The examined translations differ in terms of translators’ experience (from amateurs to professionals), competence in the source and target languages and cultures, as well as the presence or absence of series and franchise pressure on consistency. The chief comparison concerns the rendering of nonce formations (mispronounced names) and neosemanticisms (names borrowed by the author from real species for their evocative etymology). Dorota GuttfeldKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticletranslationfantasyneologismsSapkowskiTranslating and interpretingP306-310ENFRPLMiędzy Oryginałem a Przekładem, Vol 23, Iss 2 (36) (2017)
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description	The paper discusses possible differences between translations of fantasy executed by translators who are themselves members of the source text’s audience, i.e. readers and enthusiasts of the genre, and those who are not, on the example of strategies used to render names of fantastic creatures in the several English translations of works by Andrzej Sapkowski. The examined translations differ in terms of translators’ experience (from amateurs to professionals), competence in the source and target languages and cultures, as well as the presence or absence of series and franchise pressure on consistency. The chief comparison concerns the rendering of nonce formations (mispronounced names) and neosemanticisms (names borrowed by the author from real species for their evocative etymology).
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title	Fantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English
title_short	Fantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English
title_full	Fantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English
title_fullStr	Fantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English
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title_sort	fantastic neologisms in translation: creature names in professional and amateur renderings of sapkowski’s "witcher" series into english
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Fantastic Neologisms in Translation: Creature Names in Professional and Amateur Renderings of Sapkowski’s "Witcher" Series into English

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