Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories

Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories

This article takes a practical and descriptive approach to Janet Frame’s use of language in The Lagoon and Other Stories and to the challenges faced by the translators in reproducing as closely as possible the tone, rhythms and style of the original texts. Preference was given to the New Zealand-pub...

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Asıl Yazarlar: Anderson, Jean, Ribault, Nadine
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Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_8014 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.8014 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.8014 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/8014 2022-01-04T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dt0u https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Anderson, Jean Ribault, Nadine This article takes a practical and descriptive approach to Janet Frame’s use of language in The Lagoon and Other Stories and to the challenges faced by the translators in reproducing as closely as possible the tone, rhythms and style of the original texts. Preference was given to the New Zealand-published source texts over those printed in the United Kingdom, where apparently minor adjustments to Frame’s sometimes non-standard use of language structures and punctuation had altered the tone and occasionally nuances of meaning. We made the assumption that these were not only deliberate choices on the author’s part, but indeed core elements of her voice. Transferring a text from one culture to another always results in a confrontation between differing stylistic norms and cultural expectations, and The Lagoon offers a number of key examples of these issues.
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description This article takes a practical and descriptive approach to Janet Frame’s use of language in The Lagoon and Other Stories and to the challenges faced by the translators in reproducing as closely as possible the tone, rhythms and style of the original texts. Preference was given to the New Zealand-published source texts over those printed in the United Kingdom, where apparently minor adjustments to Frame’s sometimes non-standard use of language structures and punctuation had altered the tone and occasionally nuances of meaning. We made the assumption that these were not only deliberate choices on the author’s part, but indeed core elements of her voice. Transferring a text from one culture to another always results in a confrontation between differing stylistic norms and cultural expectations, and The Lagoon offers a number of key examples of these issues.
author Anderson, Jean
Ribault, Nadine
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Ribault, Nadine
Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
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title Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
title_short Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
title_full Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
title_fullStr Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
title_full_unstemmed Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
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