scholarly journals Comparative analysis of biblical phraseological units in German and Ukrainian, the degree of their structural and semantic equivalence authenticity regarding to the original text of the bible in a modern translation into Ukrainian

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (42) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
Mariana TSIPINO
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Semantic Equivalence ◽  
The Bible

scholarly journals Frazemi biblijskoga podrijetla u talijanskome i hrvatskome jeziku

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Damir Mišetić
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Semantic Equivalence ◽  
The Bible ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Units

This thesis deals with research and comparison of the idioms of biblical origin in the Italian and Croatian language. Since the biblical origin idioms belong to internationalisms, i.e. interphraseologisms, they represent an important group within the phraseology of each language. As they originate from the same source, i.e. from the Bible or the Holy Scripture, their analysis at interlingual level enables a better comprehension of their in-depth structure. Italian and Croatian are not genetically related languages, the Croatian language belongs to Slavia Romana (Slavia Latina), though, and for this as well as for other reasons there is a discernable influence of Latin on Italian and Croatian phraseology, respectively. However, different reception of the biblical origin idioms has been perceived in these two languages. The theoretical framework of this thesis is a comparative phraseology. For this purpose phraseologically contrastive papers in the Croatian, German, Italian and Spanish language in general, and contrastive papers on the biblical origin idioms, in particular, were collected and studied. The corpus of this research are the idioms of biblical origin that we obtained by excerpting examples from Italian and Croatian phraseological dictionaries (monolingual, bilingual, printed and online). Methodology consisted of a contrastive analysis of excerpted idioms, where we mostly focused at the synchronic level bearing in mind that in each comparative analysis there is a diachronic aspect within sociocultural framework as well as an intercultural comparison. As the idioms are linguistic units established mainly secondarily, contrastive analysis uses particularly induction to describe these units derived from the units of the primary systems (vocabulary, syntax and morphology), and therefore it is always necessary to analyze the lexical, structural-syntactic and structural-semantic aspects. We also used a quantitative approach as much as possible and relevant in this study. The aim of this contrastive analysis has been mainly to determine phraseological equivalents in both languages. We divided the equivalence into full, partial, purely semantic and zero, and possible idiomatic false friends were taken in consideration within this subsystem. This synchronous contrastive analysis of the idioms of biblical origin in the Italian and Croatian language indicates similarities and differences at the structural, syntactic and semantic levels, and their equivalence at interlingual level. This thesis represents the attempt to fill the gap in contrastive analysis of the idioms of biblical origin in the Italian and Croatian language and thus contribute to the development of comparative phraseology in general as well as to the research of the biblical origin idioms that have a strong influence in these two languages, both in the past and today, not only in standard language and in regional versions, but also in regional and local dialects. The corpus of biblical idioms in Italian contains 209 examples, and 170 in Croatian, respectively. Contrastive analysis was approached from different points of view, using the methods of the Zagreb phraseological school and methods of phraseologists who write in German, as well. A relatively large number of idioms with full equivalence (80 examples) indicates most probably a strong influence of the same source, Latin translation of the Bible, i.e. Vulgata in both languages, as well as their belonging to the same religious denomination and ritual group, while does not confirm the results of numerous contrastive analyses of other microsystems in languages. The number of examples of partial equivalence, 45 in both corpora, differs from much contrastive analysis of phraseological microsystems of two or more languages. Equivalent idioms often exceed the number of congruent ones, but in regard to the aforementioned reasons such a distribution is not particularly surprising. There is only one example of purely semantic equivalence in which significant lexical and semantic differences are discernible, while the picture itself is different. Furthermore, both languages also have a significant number of idioms that have no equivalent in (that) other language, respectively: 83 idioms in Italian and 44 in Croatian. This indicates the cultural-semantic discrepancy in these two languages, different influences in the phraseological treasure, and the vitality of both languages, as well. In this way the power of the phraseology of small nations has been revealed, even in terms of the idioms that traditionally belong to internationalisms. Strong influence and privileged place of Latin in the liturgy as well as in the culture and public life of both nations, had left the traces in phraseological treasure of both Italian and Croatian – in each of them in a special way – and marked other phraseological microsystems, in particular the idioms of biblical origin. And biblical origin idioms, whose stylistic values does not differ significantly, still today have a strong influence on the Croatian literary and spoken language, in its standard version, in all substandard varieties, as well, and significantly contribute to the peculiarity of the Croatian language, particularly from the point of view of speaker identification criteria. While this is not the case in Italian where there is a completely different dynamics in relation to other Romance languages. Perhaps only diachronic and areal phraseological research will shed some light on this richness and peculiarity of Croatian and its millennial tradition of using the idioms and paremias of biblical origin. This comparative analysis also shows all the complexity of the idioms regarding both expression and content, and their particularity. Certainly, we do not avoid reflecting on the need of structural language analysis at three abstract levels, i.e. the need for triple articulation in order to understand more seriously and explore more thoroughly the phraseology of European languages, but also to approach analytically more strictly to a more pronounced interest in the words connections that have been perceived in linguistics in recent decades.

scholarly journals Variation in Diachronic Translation of Bible

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-558
Author(s):  
Georgy T. Khukhuni ◽  
Irina I. Valuitseva ◽  
Anna A. Osipova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Inclusive Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Holy Writ

Variation is one of the most commonly used concepts in translatology. To one degree or another, it becomes obvious in an interlingual transfer of texts of various genres; however, first of all, one has to deal with it when translating pieces of fiction (broadly speaking). This becomes especially evident in cases when one and the same source text has several versions in another language (or in other languages). First of all, this applies to the Bible, which surpasses other literary masterpieces in the number of existing translations into different languages and also has the longest tradition of interlingual transfers. Such fact determines the relevance of the subject of this article. Despite a large number of studies on various aspects of the Holy Writ translations, a number of issues related to their variation cannot be considered fully investigated, which makes it possible to speak of the scientific novelty of this article. A few fragments of the versions created in different languages were used as the material for this research, and the method of comparative analysis was applied for their study. The research results lead to the following conclusions: a) the variation in different translations of the selected fragments may be caused by both objective and subjective factors; b) the availability of the so-called unclarities in the source text, which allow for different interpretations, leads to significant differences in their representation in the target language; c) the aiming for pragmatic adaptation of the content for a foreign cultural audience in a number of cases entails the replacement of realities, sometimes distorting the actualness shown in the original text; d) modern translations may reflect issues related to political correctness, an inclusive language, etc., which do not always correspond to the ideology of the source text.

Le prologue du livre de Ben Sirach le Sage et la traduction des écrits sacrés

Babel ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Bruno Rochette
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Writings ◽  
Corpus Hermeticum

Abstract Examining the prologue to the Greek Ben Sirach, this article tries to describe how the Greek translators of religious texts perceive the difficulties and the limits of their task. Conscious of the changes resulting from the passage of one language to another, they conceive their work as inspired by God. Therefore the work translated does not appear as a simple translation mechanically done, but as a new text reflecting the conception of the inspired translator whose faith is the warrant for the quality and accuracy of the translation. Two other comments on translation are taken into account : Corpus Hermeticum XVI and the Letter of Pseudo-Aristeas on the translation of the Septuagint. The examination of these texts leads to the conclusion that ancient translators of religious writings strove to show the vision of truth as they saw it in the original text to the new audience using another language. This conception of translating will be followed by Latin translators adopting, like Hieronymus, the principle of literality for the translation of the Bible, since in the Holy Scripture even the word order is mystery, as the Father says. A comparison with the modern theory and practice of translation of religious texts is also instructive for the modern translator. It can incite him to be careful of the likelihood of changing the sense of the original he is translating. Résumé En examinant le prologue de la version grecque du livre de Ben Sirach le Sage, cet article décrit comment les traducteurs grecs de textes religieux perçoivent les difficultés et les limites de leur tâche. Conscients des changements consécutifs au passage d'une langue à l'autre, ils conçoivent leur travail comme inspiré par Dieu. Par conséquent, l'oeuvre traduite n'apparaît pas comme une simple traduction, réalisée mécaniquement, mais comme un nouveau texte reflétant la conception du traducteur inspiré. Sa foi est le garant de la qualité et de l'exactitude de la traduction. Deux autres commentaires sur la traduction sont pris en compte : Corpus Hermeticum XVI et la Lettre du Pseudo-Aristée sur la Septante. L'examen de ces textes conduit à la conclusion que les traducteurs anciencs de textes religieux se sont efforcés de montrer à un public nouveau parlant une autre langue la vision de la vérité telle qu'ils la perçoivent dans le texte original. Cette manière de concevoir la traduction sera suivie par les traducteurs latins qui adoptent, comme Jérôme, le principe de littéralité pour la traduction de la Bible, car, dans l'Écriture Sainte, meme l'ordre des mots est mystère, comme le dit le Père. Une comparaison avec la théorie et la pratique moderne de la traduction de textes sacrés peut aussi etre instructive pour le traducteur d'aujourd'hui. Elle devrait l'inciter à etre attentif à la probabilité de changer le sens de l'original qu'il traduit.

National conceptual sphere as a criterion of literary translation authenticity

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 383-388
Author(s):  
Aigul Yessentemirova ◽  
Kuralay Urazaeva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Reliable Criterion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The paper is focused on the study of literary translation as a type of rhetorical communication. The subject being analysed is that national conceptual sphere can be a reliable criterion for the authenticity of translation. The topic of the research is that national conceptual sphere regarded as a means of illocutionary influence and a source of differences in rhetorical conscience of the author of the original text as well as the translator and the addressee. A comparative analysis of Russian and Kazakh translations of Robert Burns’ ballad “John Barleycorn” is carried out. The comparison is based on the structure of rhetorical communication, national conceptual sphere, prosody parameters and genre features. The similarities and differences of the translations are specified. The similarities are shown in referential, strophic and genre proximity of the original and translations.

Methods of translation culture-specific vocabulary into English in translation of Russian classical literature (on the example of A. Chekhov’s stories)

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
E. V. Chirkunova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Russian Text ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Classical Literature

Translating a text, especially when it comes to fiction, one of the main problems is to find appropriate and qualitative methods of translating culture-determined words. Therefore, a number of decisions made by the translator defines how a given text will be perceived by readers of a different culture. This article presents a comparative analysis of the culture-specific vocabulary of the original Russian text and the text of the translation, followed by the identification of vocabulary features given in the original text and the methods of its translation into English.

scholarly journals The Texts of St. Jerome, Sedulius Scottus and Beda Venerable in Plock and Mosan Biblical Manuscripts of the twelfth century. An attempt at comparison

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Leszae Misiarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Strong Argument ◽  
The Bible ◽  
River Region ◽  
Meuse River

This paper concerns the comparison of three twelfth-century biblical manuscripts from Plock, namely the so-called The Bible of Plock and The Evangeliary of Princess Anastasia with two Mosan biblical manuscripts: The Evangeliary of Averbode and the Biblia Universa transcribed in the same period. The first three texts: Beatissimo Papae Damaso (Novum opus), Prologus quatuor evangeliorum (Plures fuisse) and Iheronimus Damaso Pape (Sciendum etiam) – the last one is not included in the Bible of Plock - and Evangeliary of Princess Anastasia are of St. Jerome. In contrast, the introductions to the Synoptic Gospels: Argumentum secundum Matheum, Prologus in Marco and Prologus sancti Evangelii secundum Lucam are not the texts of St. Jerome, as is sometimes mistakenly repeated by different scholars, but were written by Sedulius Scottus, an Irish monk and a poet who lived and worked in a school in Leodium in the ninth century, whereas the introduction to the Gospel according to St. John: Prephatio in Evangelium secundum Iohannem was written by Bede the Venerable. While the texts of Jerome were quite commonly used in medieval biblical manuscripts, the fact that the introductions to the Synoptic Gospels are written by Sedulius Scottus and are present in both The Bible of Plock as well as partially in The Evangeliary of Princess Anastasia is a very strong argument for the Mosan origin of the twelfth century biblical manuscripts of Płock. The comparative analysis of the texts themselves clearly leads to several important conclusions. First, the Bible of Plock and Evangeliary of Princess Anastasia are closer to the version of the text preserved in the Biblia Universa, a codex written in the monastery of Sancti Trudonis, than to the Evangeliary of Averbode. It follows that the sources for the biblical manuscripts of Plock from the twelfth century should be searched at Mosan Benedictine monasteries, perhaps in the very monastery Sancti Trudonis near Liège. Second, the Gospel according to St. Mark generally follows the version of the text preserved in the Biblia Universa and the Bible of Plock but not all the time. It should therefore be hoped that the further comparative studies, especially of the version of the biblical text, will confirm this relationship and will help to determine whether the codex was written in the Meuse River region or is it a copy of the Bible of Plock made on the spot. Thirdly, and this is an extremely interesting proposal, the Evangeliary of Princess Anastasia, not counting minor changes made by a copyist like converting - tium to - cium, is very much dependent on the Bible of Plock. If, as it is confirmed by records of the miracles, the Bible was already in Plock in 1148 or before that date, it is very likely that the Evangeliary of Princess Anastasia, would be a copy of the text made on the spot in a local Plock scriptorium as a foundation of Boleslaw Kedzierzawy and a votive offering for the salvation of his deceased wife Anastasia. The codex would therefore arise after her death, dating back to the year 1158 in Plock in the time of Bishop Werner and would not have been brought by him following his trip to Aachen. These conclusions, for obvious reasons, are only preliminary, as comparison of the texts is not fully detailed and more comprehensive conclusions will be presented only after benchmarking a version of the biblical text of the four Gospels.  

scholarly journals “A Strange Romance,” or Abelard and Héloïse in Russia of the 18th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
Natalia M. Dolgorukova ◽  
Kseniia V. Babenko ◽  
Anna P. Gaydenko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Similar Transformation ◽  
Medieval Text

The article gives an analysis of the first Russian translation of Abelard and Héloïse’s letters (The Collection of Abelard and Héloïse’s Letters with the Life Description of These Miserable Lovers) made by A.I. Dmitriev in 1783 from Count Bussy-Raboutin’s French retelling. A comparative analysis of Dmitriev’s translation with the original text shows the conventional character of their connection. Following Bussy, Dmitriev not always sticks to the Latin original even in the main storylines. Even if he retains the canvas of the original medieval text, he supplements it with countless details: a portrait of a lover, a tear-drenched letter, mad passion. A similar transformation takes place with the Historia Calamitatum in the retelling made by Augustus von Kotzebue. In prefaces both authors designate their works as “female” reading. The interest in the story of two lovers is probably caused by the recent release of J.-J. Rousseau’s Julie, or the New Heloise. The choice of material, the nature of its adaptation, the appeal to women and the circumstances of the publication of Dmitriev’s translation and Kotzebue’s retelling demonstrate the commitment of these authors to sentimentalism, which explains their desire to cause tears in the eyes of their readers.

The Prodigal Son and Shakespeare

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Alison M. Jack
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Henry Iv ◽  
Geneva Bible

In this chapter the ubiquity of references to the Prodigal Son in Shakespeare’s work is explored, leading to a discussion of Shakespeare’s use of the Bible in general and of the Geneva Bible in particular. Two plays are considered in detail: Henry IV Part 1 and King Lear. It is suggested that Shakespeare offers a creative exegesis, or midrash, of the parable in both plays. In the first, the parable is reworked in a way which leads the reader to question the motives of both Hal and the Prodigal in the original text. In the second, the complex overlay of the parable on the plot and characterization offers at least the possibility of grace and hope at the end of the play.

Cenzura w Biblii

2018 ◽  
pp. 166-181
Author(s):  
Marcin Majewski ◽  
Artur Sporniak ◽  
Teresa Szostek ◽  
Michał Czajkowski
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Holy Ghost ◽  
Small Letter ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Correct Translation

The article focuses on the analysis of an interview regarding Bible translation and related censorship. The author comments on the statements of one of the interlocutors, adding her own insights and analyses. Bible translators make certain parts of the text more approachable, as was the case with the refrain to Song of Songs, which, in most translations, mentions “embracing” while the protestant Bible contains the correct translation, i.e. “caressing.” Similarly, translators correct the Bible, as they have a different notion of what a sacral text should look like. For example, they introduce neutral phrases instead of offensive words. In Czajkowski’s opinion, translators often censor the Bible, trying to make the text less blunt. However, sometimes discrepancies are a result of not understanding the original text. Not always are these differences a consequence of the translator’s work, though. It is clearly visible e.g. in the case of “pneuma,” a word which can be translated into ghost or soul, spelled with a small letter, or the Holy Ghost. The author does not support the so-called “inclusive” translation. The inspired text should not be changed. Such changes can be replaced with explanations or comments. In order to discover the original meaning of the Holy Scripture, one can compare one of the Polish translations with translations into other foreign languages or other translations into Polish.

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