Conversion Methods for Star Wars Animal Names into Chinese
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Conversion Methods for Star Wars Animal Names into Chinese
Original language description
May Fourth is a significant date in modern Chinese history. Science fiction geeks celebrate this date as Star Wars Day. Although at first glance these two events do not seem to have much in common, there is a distinct connection. “Modernization” as a crucial aspect of the May Fourth Movement was associated with the adoption of Western ideas, expressed by means of foreign words. The need for word transfer that began at the beginning of the 1920s has continued up until the present, only with a greater urgency and in a wider spectrum of relevant areas. The projection of the Star Wars saga for a Chinese audience was inevitably connected with the conversion of the associated English terms into their Chinese equivalents. Apart from many human characters and droids, the imaginary worlds in these films are also colonized by various animals. This paper investigates how the Chinese language, where new words are mainly created by composition, deals with the adoption of the names of fantastic creatures. Based on a corpus, this paper compares the names in English, as the source language of the transfer of American reality for Chinese, and the corresponding names in Chinese. A subsequent quantitative analysis demonstrates which of the methods of word-formation is most productive.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60202 - Specific languages
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Studia Orientalia Slovaca
ISSN
1336-3786
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Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
31-51
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85123395106