TRANSLATION INCONSISTENCIES IN THE TETRALOGY THIS TIME, THIS LAND BY DOBRICA ĆOSIĆ: ENGLISH-SERBIAN PARALLELS

Svetlana Obradović

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The paper presents a Serbian-English confrontational study aimed at determining the degree of success with which the translator conveys the polyphonic structure of Dobrica Ćosić's tetralogy, This Time, This Land, into English. The most significant invariant elements that the translator fails to preserve in the target language are the following: he or she alters the type of experienced speech from the original language, mixes the elements of spoken and unspoken experienced speech, loses the orthographic and spatial distinction between two different forms of experienced speech, transforms primary or main thoughts into secondary ones, and becomes inconsistent within the italicized font in the text. The conducted analysis clearly shows deviations from the syntactic and lexical structure of the original text, which disrupts the expressive function of the tetralogy, without damaging its polyphonic spirit. 

 

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experienced speech, English language, Serbian language, tetralogy This Time, This Land

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejmts.v6i1.670

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