La "traductibilité" des noms propres dans le cadre du bilinguisme gréco-latin

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédérique Biville
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Foreign Object ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Presentation Strategy ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Linguistic Level

SummaryProper names are specific to the civilisation and to the language in which they occur. The 'translation' of a proper name involves in the first place establishing the identity of its referent This identification is conditioned by the degree of familiarity with the proper name in question and by the cultural and linguistic level of the speakers and hearers who use it. It is often based on a presentation strategy which has recourse to characterising expansion and metalinguistic paraphrase. The translation of a proper name also involves a confrontation with the structures of the target language into which it can be assimilated to differing degrees. In most cases proper nouns become loanwords, but it can also happen that they are translated, that is to say replaced by lexical equivalents, of a greater or lesser degree of complexity, which already exist in the language or which are invented, often maladroitly, for that specific purpose. These translations display a concern to explain rather than to name the foreign object. They reveal differences in status between different onomastic categories and lead to a consideration of the controversial question of the 'meaning' of proper names*.

scholarly journals Translation Strategy of Proper Name

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
M. Agus Suriadi ◽  
Ni’ mah Nurul Ihsani
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Copy Strategy ◽  
Target Culture

Massive discussion has been done related to the translation strategy, including the proper name. This study discussed the types of a proper name and the translation strategy of a proper name in an English-Indonesian Novel Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secret. The data will be presented qualitatively by using Peter Newmark and Lincoln Fernandes theories. Six data are frequently typed into addressing name, four are typed as a geographical place, and one as an object name. Moreover, the most strategies used to engage the equivalence effect are copy strategy with seven data, rendition strategy with three data, and re-creation strategy with one datum. Therefore, the copy strategy can be a solution to deliver proper names into TL because it preserves the proper name and introduces the foreign name of foreign culture to the target language and target culture. Moreover, if a proper name has its equivalence meaning in TL, it might be translated by rendition strategy.

scholarly journals Translation Procedures in Translating Proper Names from English into Indonesian

HUMANIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Devi Lestari ◽  
I Made Winaya ◽  
I Gst. Ayu Gede Sosiowati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Informal Method ◽  
Translation Procedure

Translation procedure is a procedure or a method to translate the unit of language from the source language to the target language. Every linguistic part needs to be translated. It means including the proper names in the literary work. This study is aimed at identifying and analyzing the types of the proper name and their translation procedures in the novel entitled Pembunuhan di Orient Express. The problems in this study are discussed based on the theory of proper name and the theory of the translation procedure by Newmark (1988). The method used to collect the data was documentation method. This study applied the descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The result of the analysis was presented using an informal method. The analysis showed three types of proper names in the data sources. They are people’s names, the name of an object, and the geographical term. The translator uses seven methods from 18 translation procedures that were proposed by Newmark (1988). 

scholarly journals Notes on proper names in the 18th century Romanian translations of the Life of Peter (by Antonio Catiforo)

Diacronia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Ungureanu
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Proper Name

Vita di Pietro is a work authored by the Greek Antonio Catiforo in Italian and published in Venice in 1736. A Greek version was published a year later, also in Venice, by Alexandros Kankellarios. The work is comprised of six books and synthesizes information from various sources relating to the age and personality of the Russian tsar. It was translated several times into Romanian in the mid and late eighteenth century, in all three of the Romanian provinces. The large number of copies is evidence for the interest it aroused during that period. This paper describes several particulars regarding the transfer of the proper names from the source language to the target language. I have analysed four types of proper name: the choronym Moscovia and its relating ethnonym, Western choronyms, Russian anthroponyms, and anthroponyms of other origins, noting how the translators employ their source and the ensuing differences among the versions.

scholarly journals Challenges in Translation of English Phraseological Units With Onomastic Constituents Into Vietnamese Equivalents

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Viet Khoa
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Multiple Levels

Translation of phraseological units with proper names (PUPs) is topical for the contemporary translation studies nowadays. It is noted that PUPs reflect the culture and national mentality of a definite nation. Quite a few studies have prospectively examined English PUPs and their translation into other languages, but it is hard to find such an in-depth study in the case the target language is Vietnamese. By employing the qualitative approach, this paper sets out the findings of the study where 241 English PUPs in our compiled database were classified into four groups according to their translations into Vietnamese. The group of non-idiomatic and descriptive translation equivalents accounts for a majority of more than 57% of all the PUPs, proving that PUPs in both languages are highly culture-specific. Although the other three groups share a minority of approximately 43% of all the PUPs, they hold interesting implications and multiple levels of similar or different metaphors. Based on the findings, the paper discusses the challenges translators encounter during the translation process of English PUPs into their Vietnamese equivalents. It is evident that among various translation obstacles, the proper name factor is clearly one of the most challenging issues. The paper then proposes some translation solutions to cope with these special expressions. In addition to recommending to flexibly apply translation strategies, the author's conclusion emphasizes that only when translators manage to decode and grasp how PUPs work cross-linguistically in both languages and cultures can they achieve an appropriate translation of English PUPs.

scholarly journals Common names and proper nouns: Morphosyntactic evidence of a complete nominal paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 815
Author(s):  
Samuel Jambrović
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Common Noun ◽  
The Other ◽  
Proper Noun ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Count Nouns ◽  
Empirical Coverage ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
At Home

The terms "common noun" and "proper name" encode two dichotomies that are often conflated. This paper explores the possibility of the other combinations—"common name" and "proper noun"—and concludes that both exist on the basis of their morphosyntactic behavior. In support of common names, inflectional regularization is determined to result from a "name" layer in the structure, meaning that common nouns that regularize are, in fact, common names (computer mouses, tailor’s gooses). In support of proper nouns, there are bare singular count nouns in English that receive definite interpretations and seem to be licensed as arguments by the same null determiner as proper names (I left town, she works at home). Not only does a four-way distinction between nouns, names, proper nouns, and proper names achieve greater empirical coverage, but it also captures the independent morphosyntactic effects of [PROPER] and [NAME] as features on D and N, respectively.

DIRECTIONS OF ASSOCIATIVE IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONAL NAMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (28) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Olena Karpenko ◽  
Tetiana Stoianova
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Mental Lexicon ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
The Brain

The article is devoted to the study of personal names from a cognitive point of view. The study is based on the cognitive concept that speech actually exists not in the speech, not in linguistic writings and dictionaries, but in consciousness, in the mental lexicon, in the language of the brain. The conditions for identifying personal names can encompass not only the context, encyclopedias, and reference books, but also the sound form of the word. In the communicative process, during a free associative experiment, which included a name and a recipient’s mental lexicon. The recipient was assigned a task to quickly give some association to the name. The aggregate of a certain number of reactions of different recipients forms the associative field of a proper name. The associative experiment creates the best conditions for identifying the lexeme. The definition of a monosemantic personal name primarily includes the search of what it denotes, while during the process of identifying a polysemantic personal name recipients tend have different reactions. Scientific value is posed by the effect of the choice of letters for the name, sound symbolism, etc. The following belong to the generalized forms of identification: usage of a hyperonym; synonyms and periphrases or simple descriptions; associations denoting the whole (name stimulus) by reference to its part (associatives); cognitive structures such as “stimulus — association” and “whole (stimulus) — part (associative)”; lack of adjacency; mysterious associations. The topicality of the study is determined by its perspective to identify the directions of associative identification of proper names, which is one of the branches of cognitive onomastics. The purpose of the study is to identify, review, and highlight the directions of associative identification of proper names; the object of the research is the names in their entirety and variety; its subject is the existence of names in the mental lexicon, which determines the need for singling out the directions for the associative identification of the personal names.

Die wichtigsten Charakterzüge der Übersetzungsmethode des Übersetzers František Benhart beim Übersetzen slowenischer Prosa ins Tschechische

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189
Author(s):  
Jana Šnytová
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Method ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Basic Features

Summary In this paper, I focused on the translation work by František Benhart which, due to its extensiveness, was of crucial importance to the reception of Slovenian literature in the Czech cultural environment of the second half of the 20th century. The aim of this study is the linguistic analysis of the literary translations of selected literary works of the canon of Slovenian literature into Czech. Translation can be considered to be a cultural transposition, i. e. a transfer of the text and cultural environment from the source language into the text and cultural environment of the target language. In the analyses, I focused on some partial issues that either dominated in the particular text (expressivity, phraseology, idiomatic or proper names) or occurred across the texts analysed (realia) and in this context, I searched for his specific translation solutions. I also examined short excerpts of the original text and its translated counterpart looking for the presence of stylistically marked elements. Based on the results of individual analyses, I presented Benhart’s specific translation approaches and I attempted to summarize and indicate the basic features of his translation method. Furthermore, my second objective was to point out the possible consequences of Benhart’s translation method for the reception of the Slovenian literature in the Czech cultural environment.

Transposing Proper Names in Frank McCourt’s Memoir Angela’s Ashes from English into Maltese

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Grima
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Common People ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Conventional Meaning ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Processing Effort

This paper focuses on the transposition from English into Maltese of the various proper names encountered in Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes (Chapter 1). To achieve this aim, an extended practical translation exercise by the author himself is used. Eight different categories of proper names were identified in the source-text ranging from common people names to nicknames, titles and forms of address. Four different categories of cross-cultural transposition of proper names were considered, although only two were actually used. Various translation strategies were adopted ranging from non-translation to modification, depending on whether the particular proper name has a ‘conventional’ meaning or a culturally ‘loaded’ meaning. Although cultural losses were unavoidable, cultural gains were also experienced. Wherever possible, the original proper names were preserved to avoid any change in meaning and interference in their functionality as cultural markers. Moreover, a semantic creative translation was preferred, especially with proper names that were culturally and semantically loaded to reduce the amount of processing effort required by the target-reader and to minimize the cultural losses of relevant contextual and cultural implications in the target-text.

PROPER NAME IN SYNCHRONISTIC COINCIDENCES

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
G.I. Berestnev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Cognitive Attitudes

The article launches a new approach to studying coincident proper names in different cultural conditions - names viewed in a synchronistic perspective, in the Jungian sense. The paper purports to answer a number of questions adding to the theory of language, depth psychology and cognitive science. The main research methods, such as cognitive analysis and reconstruction, allow recovering data on deep cognitive attitudes of a person and possible connections of his/her mental sphere with physical reality. In this regard, the functional and cognitive nature of proper names is analyzed. It is determined by a number of characteristics that form the basis for further research. The paper further elaborates on the conditions and models of synchronistic coincidences of proper nouns (mostly personal names). The identified conditions and models are as follows: a) thematic seriality of personal names; b) their cross-matching; c) their systemic parallel matching; d) their complete coincidence in space and time; e) their promising coincidences in fortune telling; f) coincidence of ideal and real personal names; g) coincidences of personal names “framing” certain historical epochs; h) coincidences of proper names, removing the referential certainty of the named subjects. The data presented in the article made it possible to make some generalizations and to outline research prospects in this area. First of all, researching proper names from the point of view of synchronistic coincidences allows us to have an insight into human cognition and shed light on its deep structure. In addition, such studies have interdisciplinary significance bringing cognitive linguistics and the fundamental sciences closer together. Finally, the analysis of synchronistic coincidences of proper names allows us to reconstruct some deep cognitive attitudes in the human psyche, demonstrating the unity of mental and physical realities. Even more promising in this regard is the unification of cognitive linguistics with other advanced scientific disciplines engaged in this issue.

TRANSLATION OF PROPER NAMES FROM KAZAKH INTO ENGLISH (IN THE CASE OF TURKISTAN BY M. JUMABAYEV): LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ASPECTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
G. Mehmet ◽  
◽  
А.E. Alpysbayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Scientific Substantiation

The article is the first to consider the translation of proper names used in M. Zhumabaev's poem Turkestan from Kazakh into English from the point of view of the principles of forenization and domestication. This famous work of the poet, which describes the whole essence of the Turkic peoples, is saturated with historical and culturally distinct anthroponyms and toponyms. The analytical part examines the question of how this information was reflected in the target language, how much the calorie was adopted or preserved. In general, the translation of proper names from Kazakh into English is one of the branches of domestic translation studies that needs scientific substantiation and research development.

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