Conversion Methods for Star Wars Animal Names into Chinese

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Conversion Methods for Star Wars Animal Names into Chinese

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Conversion Methods for Star Wars Animal Names into Chinese

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60202 - Specific languages

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Studia Orientalia Slovaca

ISSN

1336-3786

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

31-51

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85123395106