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Semantic Interpretations of Proper Names in Literary Translation: Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters" in Bulgarian [PDF]

English Studies at NBU, 2022
Name crafting has been and still is of importance when devising a literary character with certain traits and features that are meant to outstand a character's personality.
Yana Manova-Georgieva
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Polish Proper Names in Literary Translation – Difficulties and Challenges (Based on Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s Crime Trilogy and its French Translation)

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
In a literary translation, nomina propria not only indicate a given object, but also perform other functions, evoking many associations. As linguistic carriers of national culture, on the one hand, they introduce the element of foreignness to a ...
Kochanowska Urszula
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Fordítsam vagy ne? A tulajdonnevek kapcsán fölmerülő műfordítói dilemmákról a fantasztikus irodalom esetében [To translate or not to translate? A literary translator’s dilemmas of proper names with respect to speculative fiction]

Névtani Értesítő, 2015
The paper attempts to list the dilemmas proper names present to literary translators based on the author’s own and others’ literary translations. There is no consistent rule governing whether or not to translate proper names in Hungarian. Generally names
Sohár, Anikó
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A Critical Study of Translation of Proper Names in Fantasy Literature [PDF]

فصلنامه نقد ادبی, 2022
Literary proper names can perform various functions. In fantasy literature, which usually has its own dedicated secondary world, these functions are even more prevalent.
Hamed Shanaki, Samar Ehteshami
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The Onomastic Universe in the Fantastic Prose of Mikhail Bulgakov: the Dimension of Translation [PDF]

Philologia, 2022
Proper names are double-character words: national and international. This is why translation requires an in-depth knowledge of the culture and civilization of the source language people.
Inga DRUȚĂ
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Investigating the Translation of Proper Names in the Documentary “Ma’alem Men Khuzestan” on Al-Kawthar Channel Based on Van Coillie's Theory [PDF]

پژوهش‌های ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی, 2023
In post-coronavirus societies and the return of enthusiasm and motivation of people to exchange cultures and travel, the need for translation is felt more than ever.
Nafiseh Emari Allahyari, Ali Zeighami, Habib Keshavarz   +2 more
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PECULIARITIES OF THE TRANSLATION OF PROPER NAMES IN A LITERARY TEXT (ON THE MATERIAL OF FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF “THE HUNTING SKETCHES” BY I. TURGENEV)

Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (Russian Philology), 2017
Natalia Voskresenskaya, Ekaterina Kazakova   +1 more
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„Idegen szülöttet […] csempész a családi név alá”

Névtani Értesítő, 2021
“Smuggling an illegitimate child […] into the family” Name and names in literary approaches to translation   The study formulates hypotheses for a more extensive historical examination of the connections and relations of names and translation ...
ILDIKÓ JÓZAN
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The Comparative Cat and How to Translate it – A Comparative Children’s Literature and Literary Animal Studies Approach

Syn-Thèses, 2022
Literary animals appear very often in traditional fairy tales and modern literary texts and animal character's proper names have – almost every time – a deliberate meaning.
Panagiotis Xouplidis
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Translating Character Names in Fantasy Literature

Names, 2022
This study examines the challenges posed by translating the invented character names in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy into Turkish. It investigates the methods used in the process and the factors that influence the translator’s methodological ...
Naile Sarmaşık
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