Individual Style in Translation

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Individual Style in Translation

Original language description

There have been various approaches to the presence of individual stylistic traits in translation. The paper briefly describes various concepts of individual translator's style as presented in Czech and Slovak translation theories mainly by Jiri Levy, butby other authors as well. The main point of the paper, though, is to explore whether and how the structuralist ideas are present in modern translation studies. Is the notion of individual translator's style relevant for research in translation and/or for translation criticism? Has a clear and usable definition been formulated? What method should be used for determining the individual style of a translator? The paper also proposes a method of finding stylistic patterns and tendencies in the translationsdone by translators who are writers themselves. The method is based on the analysis of the characteristic features of their own poetics, presuming that some of them are present in the translations, too. To illustrate the method, the pape

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica, Translatologica Pragensia

ISSN

1802-4378

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Volume of the periodical

2015

Issue of the periodical within the volume

24

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

55-60

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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