Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings
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Vladimir Yepishev
Abstract
The Lord of the Rings is a multilingual trilogy which includes texts and lexical units of eight languages that are represented by means of the Roman alphabet and diacritics. This study scrutinizes the problem with translations of proper names. This includes an analysis of Tolkien’s languages and their phonetic system. The results obtained embrace sound value of graphemes as well as pronunciation rules and are used to compare proper names in the original with interpretations by Ukrainian and Russian translators, raising the question of phonetic correspondence in translation. The novel suffered much in translations because of various alternations and substitutions. Many proper names were misunderstood and therefore rendered incorrectly.
Abstract
The Lord of the Rings is a multilingual trilogy which includes texts and lexical units of eight languages that are represented by means of the Roman alphabet and diacritics. This study scrutinizes the problem with translations of proper names. This includes an analysis of Tolkien’s languages and their phonetic system. The results obtained embrace sound value of graphemes as well as pronunciation rules and are used to compare proper names in the original with interpretations by Ukrainian and Russian translators, raising the question of phonetic correspondence in translation. The novel suffered much in translations because of various alternations and substitutions. Many proper names were misunderstood and therefore rendered incorrectly.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction ix
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Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives
- Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction 7
- Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity 21
- Notes toward a new philology 35
- A theory of expressive reading 49
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Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature
- Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response 75
- Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative 89
- Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives 103
- Narrative empathy and inter-group relations 113
- Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies 127
- Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition 139
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Part III. Computers and the humanities
- An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions 161
- Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts 175
- Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics 193
- Searching for style in modern American poetry 211
- The laws governing the history of poetry 229
- Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. 243
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Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation
- Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety 271
- Language allergy: Myth or reality 283
- Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings 297
- Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea 309
- The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland 317
- Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English 329
- About the contributors 343
- Index of authors 351
- Index of keywords 355
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction ix
-
Part I. Theoretical and philosophical perspectives
- Studying literature and being empirical: A multifaceted conjunction 7
- Empirical research into the processing of free indirect discourse and the imperative of ecological validity 21
- Notes toward a new philology 35
- A theory of expressive reading 49
-
Part II. Psychology, foregrounding and literature
- Textual and extra-textual manipulations in the empirical study of literary response 75
- Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative 89
- Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives 103
- Narrative empathy and inter-group relations 113
- Effects of reading on knowledge, social abilities, and selfhood: Theory and empirical studies 127
- Imagining what could happen: Effects of taking the role of a character on social cognition 139
-
Part III. Computers and the humanities
- An automated text analysis: Willie Van Peer's academic contributions 161
- Computationally Discriminating Literary from Non-Literary Texts 175
- Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics 193
- Searching for style in modern American poetry 211
- The laws governing the history of poetry 229
- Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. 243
-
Part IV. REDES Project: The new generation
- Empirical evaluation: Towards an automated index of lexical variety 271
- Language allergy: Myth or reality 283
- Proper names in the translation of The Lord of the Rings 297
- Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea 309
- The Apology of Popular Fiction: Everyday Uses of Literature in Poland 317
- Afterword. A Matter of versifying: Tradition, innovation and the sonnet form in English 329
- About the contributors 343
- Index of authors 351
- Index of keywords 355