Translation and Interpreting in the 20th Century

Wilss, Wolfram

doi:10.1075/btl.29

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“…G. Stolze [13] views the background knowledge of translators and their life experience as particularly important. A German translator Wilss attributes even a more significant role to a translator's personality and knowledge [14]. In regards to the framework of the Scopos theory, the importance of taking into account social and professional factors of a translator's activity was emphasized [15].…”

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Bohdan Kravtsiv as a translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry

Paslawska

2021

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The paper presents a modified three-level model of possible relations between different cultures proposed by W. Welsh. There have been outlined multicultural, intercultural and transcultural aspects of such relations. The model is exemplified by the translations of Bohdan Kravtsiv. Life circumstances forced Kravtsiv to leave Ukraine and spend his life abroad. He had to work on his translations in different countries and cultures. Just like other cultures influenced his way of thinking, life experience and poetic creativity, due to his political, social, poetic, and translation activities, he himself influenced the cultures he was immersed in and where he was involved in the creative activity. Remoteness from Ukraine did not make the poet and translator break off his relations with his home country. In the Diaspora he did his best to help Ukrainians, replenish the poetic translations of the Ukrainian literature, retain memories of the repressed poets, enrich Ukrainian cultural heritage (transcultural aspect). The language personality of Bohdan Kravtsiv as a translator is considered in terms of his translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry. The structure of the language personality of the translator encompasses verbal, cognitive and pragmatic-motivational levels. The paper focuses on the analysis of Kravtsiv’s translations of Rilke's poems into Ukrainian. It has revealed Kravtsiv’s brilliant mastery of the poetic word. The translations of Rilke's poems performed by Kravtsiv testify to the translator's efforts to remain faithful to the form and content of the original. In spite of the different morphological and phonetic structures of German and Ukrainian, he succeeded in most cases. The translator’s individual style is marked by concise and euphonious translations, multiple new coinages and in-depth knowledge of the original works.

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Bohdan Kravtsiv as a translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry

Paslawska

2021

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“…In our research on attitudes to translation in the language class (in the project Translation and Language Learning, 2012-13), numerous experts and teachers, particularly in Germany, replied that they were increasingly using "mediation" activities, but not "translation, " since the latter is seen as a sentence-level replacement exercise. An extreme is reached in a report on Cultural Mediation and the Teaching and Learning of Languages (Zarate et al, 2004), where translation is equated with "a reformulating activity that obscures all the challenges to intercultural communication which conceal the dysfunctions of a type of communication between partners based on different value systems" (2004,12). 6 What has happened here?…”

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Translation Studies in Europe—reasons for it, and problems to work on

Pym

2014

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What have the Romans ever done for us?" Monty Python, Life of Brian (1979) As a social and political context for research on translation, the European Union offers pertinent commitments to multilingualism, inclusive territorial democracy, transparent governance and the welfare state, with enough public funding to pursue these aims seriously. All these features concern translation, not only to the extent that they create social demands for translations but more importantly in that they give our research an ethical and political dimension, in addition to the demands of various markets. However, when the consequences of these commitments are compared with actual European research and public policies concerning translation, several shortcomings become apparent. The comparison suggests that future tasks for Translation Studies in Europe should include: (1) serious attention to far more than the large territorial languages; (2) enhanced exchange with neighboring disciplines, especially with scholars working on language acquisition; (3) an acceptance that translated communication should concern involvement and interaction, in addition to public information; (4) a questioning of the Western translation form as the model best suited to interactive cross-lingual governance; and (5) experimentation with technologies that stimulate citizen involvement.

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“…Anyone doing research on the history of interpreting is well aware of the fact that finding historical sources is extremely difficult and time consuming. Some authors have endeavoured to provide an insight into interpreting in the past (Andres 2008;Bowen et al 1995;Hermann 1956;Roland 1982;Wilss 1999;Wiotte-Franz 2001), the attitudes of interpreters, role perceptions, misunderstandings and errors. In doing so they had to rely for the most part on narratives concerning interpreters -narratives provided by interpreters themselves were nonexistent for centuries.…”

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Review of Torikai (2009): Voices of the invisible presence: Diplomatic interpreters in post-World War II Japan

Andres¹

2010

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Translation and Interpreting in the 20th Century

Cited by 39 publications

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Bohdan Kravtsiv as a translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry

Bohdan Kravtsiv as a translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry

Translation Studies in Europe—reasons for it, and problems to work on

Review of Torikai (2009): Voices of the invisible presence: Diplomatic interpreters in post-World War II Japan

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