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Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts
Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. urn:nbn:hr:142:658319
Konjarević, Denis
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Konjarević, D. (2023). Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević, Denis. "Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević, Denis. "Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević, D. (2023). 'Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 18 February 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević D. Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2023 [cited 2025 February 18] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

D. Konjarević, "Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2023. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

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TitleModality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts
Title (croatian)Promjene u modalnosti pri prevođenju engleskih modalnih glagola na hrvatski jezik u pravnim i književnim tekstovima
AuthorDenis Konjarević
MentorAna Werkmann (mentor)
Committee memberMarija Omazić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberAna Werkmann (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberDubravka Vidaković Erdeljić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Osijek
Defense date and country2023-11-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This study aims to examine the general features of the translation of English modal verbs into Croatian in legal and literary texts, with an emphasis on two kinds of shifts occurring in the translation process: shifts in the strength of modal verbs and shifts in the means of expressing modality. A lack of research on translating modal verbs (and modality in general) into Croatian serves as the rationale for conducting the present study. To this end, a total of 520 randomly selected English sentences containing the modal verbs must, should, ought to, and may were extracted from legal and literary corpora and placed alongside their Croatian translations. The extracts were then analyzed in an attempt to explain the motivation for employing those translation strategies that had produced a shift in modality. This was done to find out how those strategies reflect the general characteristics of the two genres regarding modality in terms of their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features that influence the translation process. The analysis revealed that shifts in the strength of the aforementioned modal verbs were more frequent in the legal corpus, primarily because of the strict framework of rules and regulations legal discourse comes with. This framework affects the strength of modal expressions. Shifts in the means of expressing modality were more frequent in the literary corpus, primarily because of a high frequency of epistemic modal verbs, whose syntactic properties in the target language had prompted the translator to avoid using them for stylistic reasons.
Abstract (croatian)
Cilj je ovog rada istražiti opće značajke prevođenja engleskih modalnih glagola na hrvatski jezik u pravnim i književnim tekstovima s naglaskom na dvije vrste promjena koje se događaju u procesu prevođenja: promjene u jačini modalnih glagola i promjene u sredstvu modalnog iskaza. Slaba zastupljenost istraživanja prevođenja modalnih glagola (i modalnosti uopće) u hrvatskom jeziku razlog je za provođenje ovoga istraživanja. U tu je svrhu prikupljeno 520 rečenica iz pravnih i književnih korpusa koje su sadržavale modalne glagole must, should, ought to i may i koje su potom bile uparene s s njihovim prijevodima na hrvatski. Prikupljena je građa zatim podvrgnuta analizi s ciljem utvrđivanja čimbenika koji su potaknuli uporabu prevoditeljskih rješenja koja su uzrokovala promjene u modalnosti u prevedenim rečenicama. To je učinjeno kako bi se utvrdilo na koji način takva rješenja odražavaju opća obilježja dvaju žanrova u pogledu njihovih sintaktičkih, semantičkih i pragmatičkih značajki koje utječu na prevoditeljski proces. Rezultati istraživanja pokazali su veću prisutnost promjena u modalnoj jačini u pravnom korpusu, ponajprije zbog snažnog kontekstualnog okvira pravila i propisa svojstvenog pravnom diskursu. Takav okvir utječe na snagu modalnih izraza. Promjene u sredstvu modalnog iskaza bile su izraženije u književnom korpusu, ponajprije zbog velike zastupljenosti epistemičkih modalnih glagola, zbog čijih je sintaktičkih svojstava u ciljnom jeziku prevoditelj iz stilskih razloga u pravilu izbjegavao njihovu uporabu u prijevodu.
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Languagecroatian
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:658319
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Philology
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Philosophy (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije filozofije (magistar/magistra edukacije filozofije)
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