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Translating a Worldview: Linguistic Worldview in Literary Translation

Translating a Worldview: Linguistic Worldview in Literary Translation

Gicala, Agnieszka
Muskat-Tabakowska, Elżbieta

Hardcover

Series: Cultures in Translation, Book 4

GermanLiterary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 3631861362
ISBN13: 9783631861363
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Aug 31 2021
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The book offers a view of the translation of a literary text as a reconstruction of the non-standard linguistic worldview embedded in that text, and emerging from the standard, conventional worldview present in a given language and culture. This translation strategy (and the ensuing detailed decisions) is explained via the metaphor of two icebergs, representing the source and target texts as iceberg tips, resting on the vast foundations of the source and target languages and cultures. This thesis is illustrated by analyses of English translations of two poems by Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 Nobel Prize winner: Rozmowa z kamieniem (Conversation with a Stone/Rock) and Chmury (Clouds).

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