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Papers by Goran Schmidt

Prevođenje djela ratne tematike s hrvatskog ili na hrvatski jezik često predstavlja dodatni izazo... more Prevođenje djela ratne tematike s hrvatskog ili na hrvatski jezik često predstavlja dodatni izazov čak i vrsnim prevoditeljima jer iziskuje poznavanje vojne terminologije koja je sklona čestim promjenama, izmjenama i dopunama. Roman Kvaka-22 američkog romanopisca Jo-sepha Hellera doživio je čak tri hrvatska reizdanja (Heller 1969; 1987; 2007) koje je u sva tri slučaja prevodio Zlatko Crnković. Dok su prva dva prijevoda izašla u doba bivše države, pri-jevodi vojnih termina odgovaraju duhu tog vremena i tadašnjem nazivlju. Međutim, uvidom u najnoviji prijevod ustanovilo se kako je usklađivanje vojne terminologije ostalo na minimumu. S obzirom na specifičnost vojnog žargona te na činjenicu da prosječni čitatelj rijetko poznaje vojnu hijerarhiju i sve finese vojnog nazivlja, željelo se ispitati odbija li čitatelje takav zastar-jeli, i danas neprecizan i netočan prijevod. Analizom odgovora na anketna pitanja utvrđeno je da ispitanike u velikoj mjeri smeta i zbunjuje zastarjela vojna term...

This paper deals with the self-translation of scholarly paper abstracts. In this preliminary stud... more This paper deals with the self-translation of scholarly paper abstracts. In this preliminary study one focus is on the differences, the so-called 'shifts', between an original abstract and its translation, specifically on the optional shifts. The translation shifts are explored using Vinay and Darbelnet's methodology for the analysis of translation, as described in Munday (2008: 56 ff.). I will take the number of optional shifts (including optional additions and omissions) as an indicator of the degree of 'freedom' in translation, and based on that degree I will try to determine whether self-translation as a mode of translation differs from 'ordinary' translation. The analyzed corpus consists of bilingual abstracts (in language combinations German-Croatian, Croatian-English, Croatian-German, English-Croatian, and English-German) from a collection of papers on translation (Karabalić, Vladimir and Marija Omazić 2008). Another focus is on strategies and procedures commonly employed in selftranslation of abstracts, which is investigated by means of an online survey.

The main objective of the thesis was to apply the Conceptual Metaphor Theory to a research on met... more The main objective of the thesis was to apply the Conceptual Metaphor Theory to a research on metaphor translation. A comparative analysis of three target texts of the same source text was carried out. The corpus consists of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and three different Croatian translations, done by three different translators in three different time periods (1920, 1953, and 1987). ST metaphoric expressions were identified and copied into a database, where they were aligned with the corresponding TT1, TT2, and TT3 translation solutions. The translation solutions were classified according to a new typology, which combines CMT with the existing typologies in TS. In order to account for the motivation for the different translational solutions, as well as for the effects of using particular procedures, the identified metaphorical expressions and the translational solutions were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively, taking into account different parame...

Knjiga u prvom redu predstavlja visokoškolski udžbenik namijenjen studentima germanistike s cilje... more Knjiga u prvom redu predstavlja visokoškolski udžbenik namijenjen studentima germanistike s ciljem uspostave prvih kontakata s podruþjem translatologije, s naglaskom na njezinoj teoretskoj osnovi. Udžbenik se sastoji od 17 poglavlja koja pokrivaju širok spektar tema, od samog pojma Translation, razvoja i podjele znanosti o prevoÿenju, preko povijesnog razvoja prevoditeljstva, poveznica s lingvistikom i književnošüu, do radne svakodnevice modernog prevoditelja, elektronskih pomagala i baza podataka. Posljednje poglavlje praktiþne je prirode i daje pregled korisnih internetskih adresa za buduüe prevoditelje.

This paper explores the ways in which Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980) can be... more This paper explores the ways in which Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980) can be applied in cross-linguistic and translation research. The paper gives an overview of cross-linguistic and translation research of metaphor, focusing on theoretical and methodological, but also applied aspects. In addition, a new typology for metaphor translation analysis is presented, along with its potential application.

n this chapter we will explore the interface between translation studies and cognitive linguistic... more n this chapter we will explore the interface between translation studies and cognitive linguistics by examining selected case studies to determine the place and role of conceptual metaphor and metonymy in the process of translation, i.e. in particular translation strategies applied in performing different translation tasks. The specific translation tasks that we will target in this paper are translating culture-based items from English into Croatian, as well as translating phraseology. Further analysis focuses on whether the distribution of these cognitive mechanisms is the same for strategies targeting different language items and examines the reasons for possible unevenness, stipulating whether their established role in translation calls for and justifies their incorporation in translation theory, pedagogy, and practice.

Jezikoslovlje, 2015

Prevođenje djela ratne tematike s hrvatskog ili na hrvatski jezik cesto predstavlja dodatni izazo... more Prevođenje djela ratne tematike s hrvatskog ili na hrvatski jezik cesto predstavlja dodatni izazov cak i vrsnim prevoditeljima jer iziskuje poznava

The paper presents results of a diachronic study on foreignization and domestication in the three... more The paper presents results of a diachronic study on foreignization and domestication in the three Croatian translations of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The study identifies the translation strategies that may be termed as foreignizing or domesticating, compares the three translations in order to see to what extent those strategies are used in the different translations and whether there is a diachronic change. The linguistic, cultural, political and other implications of using one or the other strategy are considered.

The paper aims to shed light on how subtitlers cope with metaphor translation. The paper presents... more The paper aims to shed light on how subtitlers cope with metaphor translation. The paper presents the results of a case study on a set of English subtitles of one Croatian movie. Metaphor translation procedures were analyzed using Conceptual Metaphor Theory. There are four basic ways to translate metaphors: a. using the same conceptual metaphor, b. using a different conceptual metaphor, c. using a non-metaphorical paraphrase; and d. deleting the metaphor. In addition, a non-metaphorical expression can be translated by a metaphorical expression. Metaphors are mental, linguistic, but also cultural entities. Since translation in the contemporary age is recognized as both linguistic and cultural transfer, translating metaphors is at the core of the translation task. Many conceptual metaphors are universal and can be found in (almost) all languages, but some are culturally specific, appearing in just one language (group). This case study shows that the universality of metaphor influences...

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Readers of Croatian daily newspapers and news websites are very frequently faced with Croatian ph... more Readers of Croatian daily newspapers and news websites are very frequently faced with Croatian phrases which have been modelled on English templates by literal, word-for-word translation, a phenomenon known ascalque. This research shows that even highly proficient Croatian speakers of English as a second language (L2) are sometimes not able to fully understand the calques used in Croatian mass media unless they are familiar with the meaning of their source template in English. The research is done by way of an experiment built inPsychoPy(Pierce, 2007). The implications of this research could be of special interest to persons involved in designing media texts, professional and student translators, as well as to mass media consumers.

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