Free Indirect Style Across Languages: The Case of John Updike’s Writing and Its Mandarin Renderings

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Free Indirect Style Across Languages: The Case of John Updike’s Writing and Its Mandarin Renderings

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The proposed paper explores the cross-linguistic dimension of free indirect style using John Updike’s writing (original in English) and its Mandarin renderings. In the analysis, I identify at least the following stylistic strategies in Updike’s free indirect style: mixing of tense, manipulation of subject-verb agreement, and inversion. In addition, I argue that Updike’s skillful use of the above stylistic strategies is, and can only be, specific to the English language, and that presents an immediate dilemma to translators into Mandarin Chinese as the structural means identified do not exist at all in the Mandarin system. In particular, Mandarin is notoriously a tenseless language and does not inflectionally mark subject-verb agreement; being a topic-comment language, Mandarin Chinese also has an information-packaging system that is very different from English as a subject-predicate language. The present paper will look into the ways how Mandarin translators, with no linguistic means comparable to the English original, (have to) adapt and render Updike’s style in their reproductions of the same literary scene, considering corresponding passages in English and Mandarin.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Free Indirect Style Across Languages: The Case of John Updike’s Writing and Its Mandarin Renderings

Popis výsledku anglicky

The proposed paper explores the cross-linguistic dimension of free indirect style using John Updike’s writing (original in English) and its Mandarin renderings. In the analysis, I identify at least the following stylistic strategies in Updike’s free indirect style: mixing of tense, manipulation of subject-verb agreement, and inversion. In addition, I argue that Updike’s skillful use of the above stylistic strategies is, and can only be, specific to the English language, and that presents an immediate dilemma to translators into Mandarin Chinese as the structural means identified do not exist at all in the Mandarin system. In particular, Mandarin is notoriously a tenseless language and does not inflectionally mark subject-verb agreement; being a topic-comment language, Mandarin Chinese also has an information-packaging system that is very different from English as a subject-predicate language. The present paper will look into the ways how Mandarin translators, with no linguistic means comparable to the English original, (have to) adapt and render Updike’s style in their reproductions of the same literary scene, considering corresponding passages in English and Mandarin.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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