Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian

Sørbø, Marie Nedregotten

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“…These works offer valuable data concerning the extent to which the significance of her style is appreciated in different literary systems (see e.g. Mandal, 2009;Owen, 2018;Sørbø, 2018). Comparative translation research assesses the degree of equivalence between paired segments from the target and source texts, and identifies instances of variation on different levels, or 'translation shifts' (Van Leuven-Zwart, 1989, 1990.…”

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“…For instance, in various Romance languages such as Catalan (Alsina, 2008), Portuguese (Rosa, 2009) and Spanish (Alsina, 2011;Zaro, 2006), FIS passages are rendered as either Direct or Indirect Speech, despite the respective target readerships' familiarity with this form. Norwegian translations also modify FIS, with effects both on characterisation and on the ironic distance created by this form (Sørbø 2018(Sørbø , 2022.…”

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Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations

Espunya

2023

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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In Jane Austen’s novels conversation provides internal evidence of the nature of characters, both moral and social (Morini, 2009). Among the interplay of speech presentation forms (Bray, 2018; Page, 1972), Narrative Report of Speech Acts (Leech and Short, 2007) is still underresearched (Busse, 2020) as a characterisation resource. Research on speech reports in inquit formulae has focused on illocutionary features (Austin, 1962; Searle and Vanderveken, 1985). However, speech reports also introduce the intersubjective stances adopted by characters and by the narrator, i.e. their receptiveness to disagreeing positions. As engagement resources (Martin and White, 2005), they construct interpersonal styles and offer cues into the narrator’s own stance toward the characters. Such meaning complexes are a challenge for literary translators. For this study, 55 instances of NRSA were sampled from three chapters of Mansfield Park and their correspondences in two Spanish and two German translations. The original text and the translations display remarkable lexical richness, with 36 instances overtly expressing illocutionary force. Characterisation cues appear at the character level of discourse, through the illocutionary features and engagement types attributed to characters (e.g. monoglossic, heteroglossic), and also on the narrator level of discourse, through linguistic co-textual choices weakening the endorsement of the character. All four translations contain shifts affecting the characterisation potential such as changes in a character’s stance, the early disclosure of a character’s attitude, and the insertion of explicit narratorial evaluation of a character. These findings are applicable in stylistics as well as in translation assessment and pedagogy.

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Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations

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2023

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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XII Literature 1780–1830: The Romantic Period

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The Challenges of Translating Jane Austen’s Irony: Samples from 150 Years of Norwegian Versions of the Novels

Sørbø

2022

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Irony is often perceived to be an inherent quality of Jane Austen’s narrative voice and attitude, but is it translatable? It has been argued that Austen should ‘stay at home’, since foreign versions tend to alter her novels in various ways. However, her novels are nevertheless translated into more languages, giving her a more global presence than ever before. What kind of Austen is received in these versions? Does she still have a sharp eye for human peculiarities and wry comments on the vagaries of romance? The study of Austen in translation is still in its early phase, with most languages yet to be investigated. This article will focus on Norwegian translations between 1871 and the present time. They include serials for newspapers and journals, paperbacks for the popular market, as well as handsome classic author editions. The challenge of understanding and transmitting Austen’s irony cuts across such genres and channels of publication and is always a prominent issue when studying them. In this article, I will choose some examples of narrative irony from the novels and compare them to several translated versions (in back-translation). They serve as illustrations of what is at stake, but also, implicitly, as demonstrations of Austen’s own peculiar voice and authorial qualities.

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Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian

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Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations

Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations

XII Literature 1780–1830: The Romantic Period

The Challenges of Translating Jane Austen’s Irony: Samples from 150 Years of Norwegian Versions of the Novels

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