The Porcelain Dog

Zusatztext

It is a well-known fact that translators can choose between many existing translation approaches. The title of this book refers to the fact that it is impossible for a translator of literary texts to achieve full fidelity to the original text, and simultaneously maintain complete communicative freedom. How can a translator nevertheless achieve these objectives to a certain degree? A translator of literature should be able to integrate the authorial intentions and the anticipated responses of the readership, whilst transferring the contents of the literary text from the source language into the target language as accurately as possible. The six language functions introduced by Karl Bühler, and developed by Roman Jakobson, can be used as a basis for testing and adjudicating between two translation approaches: the formal equivalence translation (FET), and communicative translation (CT) approaches. The translations of selected excerpts from Bratlund's novel will show if the FET translation option suffices, or it is is necessary to produce additional translation alternatives, using both approaches. Each translation option is discussed in detail.

Autorenportrait

The bilingual author Karin Breit was born and raised in Liverpool, England by Norwegian parents. After and during the completion of her Master´s degree at the University of Bergen in 2007, she has been working as an interpreter and translator for the police and judicial system in Norway since 2005.

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