Publication details
Tempo e spazio nelle favole di Karel Čapek
| Title in English | Time and space in the fairy-tales of Karel Čapek |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Études romanes de Brno |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | translation; toponyms; Karel Čapek |
| Description | The paper focuses on the problematics of translation of toponyms used in Devatero pohádek by Czech author Karel Čapek. First we'll try to give a general definition of a fairy-tale, it’s origins and characteristics. Next we'll focus on the differences between the concepts of time and space in the traditional fairy-tales and in those written by Čapek. The following part analyses on use of the toponyms in the Czech original text and it's English and Italian translations. The analyzed toponyms were divided in three main groups according to their provenience, i.e. domestic Czech and foreign with international forms, domestic Czech without international forms, imaginary toponyms. In each of these groups the terms were subsequently categorized by following criteria: untranslated, translated and replaced. We have seen how both of the translators treat the toponyms differently and that the ratio of toponyms in the three main groups divided by the default criteria differ to some extent. |