Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a work of great stylistic complexity. The only Catalan translation that has been done so far is Maria-Antònia Oliver’s 1984 acclaimed version. In this article we analyse Oliver’s treatment of the voices of four characters displaying a variety of geolectal and sociolectal features with various functions. After describing the phenomenon of fictitive orality and outlining the problems it poses for translation, we analyse and compare the source and target texts in a selection of fragments illustrating the characteristics of the four voices analysed, and conclude that Oliver managed to render them in her translation using a combination of expected and original strategies.
Giugliano, M., Alsina Keith, V. (2019). La traducció de la variació lingüística i de l’oralitat ficcional en la versió catalana de "Moby Dick" per M. Antònia Oliver. ANUARI TRILCAT, 9, 3-31 [10.31009/anuaritrilcat.2019.i9.01].
La traducció de la variació lingüística i de l’oralitat ficcional en la versió catalana de "Moby Dick" per M. Antònia Oliver
Marcello Giugliano
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2019
Abstract
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a work of great stylistic complexity. The only Catalan translation that has been done so far is Maria-Antònia Oliver’s 1984 acclaimed version. In this article we analyse Oliver’s treatment of the voices of four characters displaying a variety of geolectal and sociolectal features with various functions. After describing the phenomenon of fictitive orality and outlining the problems it poses for translation, we analyse and compare the source and target texts in a selection of fragments illustrating the characteristics of the four voices analysed, and conclude that Oliver managed to render them in her translation using a combination of expected and original strategies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
