Religious realia in Slovak and Czech translations from Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries

Vol.29,No.1(2019)

Dušan Tellinger

https://doi.org/10.5817/OS2019-1-4

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/141220

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Abstract
This paper reflects not only the issues of the research of the topic religious realia in Slovak and Czech translations but also their translatability. The translatability of all kinds of sacral/religious texts (not only literary texts) depends on translator's cultural, language and stylistic competence. A translator of texts which contain religious realia needs a specific strategy to bridge the gap between different religions, cultures and languages. There are two basic strategies—foreignization versus naturalization. The basic idea of the foreignizing strategy is the effort to make the text with theological values foreign to the target culture. In contrast naturalizing strategy makes the sacral/religious text fluent to the target culture reader. None of these two basic strategies is a guarantee of a successful translation therefore the translator's effort is a creolized culture and language in translation (i.e. a compromise strategy between both mentioned basic translational strategies).

Keywords:
translatability; religious realia; background knowledge; comments on realia; cultural competence; foreignization; creolization; Orthodox liturgy

Pages:
35–46
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