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In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024. urn:nbn:hr:131:043051
Posedi, Patrik
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Posedi, P. (2024). In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:043051

Posedi, Patrik. "In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:043051

Posedi, Patrik. "In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:043051

Posedi, P. (2024). 'In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 25 November 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:043051

Posedi P. In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2024 [cited 2024 November 25] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:043051

P. Posedi, "In the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2024. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:043051

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TitleIn the Company of Words in Translation: Conventionalisation of Collocations in Croatian Translations from English
Title (croatian)U društvu prevedenih riječi: konvencionalizacija kolokacija u hrvatskim prijevodima s engleskog
AuthorPatrik Posedi
MentorNataša Pavlović (mentor)
Committee memberMateusz-Milan Stanojević (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberSnježana Veselica Majhut (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2024-09-18, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
The controversial notion of translation universals, described initially as absolute generalities of translation, is nowadays understood more along the lines of probabilistic claims about different subsets of translations. One such universal – conventionalisation – is in the focus of this study. Conventionalisation is described as a feature of translations according to which translations conform to the typical patterns of the target language, even to the degree of exaggerating them, meaning that unconventional source elements become conventional in the target. This universal is studied here by researching three conventional and three unconventional English collocations and their Croatian renderings. The aim is to determine if collocations become conventionalised through translation, with respect to genre (literary vs. popular scientific) and with respect to participants’ perception of a source collocation’s conventionality. The study combines an experiment, where participants are asked to translate two texts and answer questions about the collocations’ conventionality, and a corpus-based analysis, aimed at assessing conventionality. The results of this small-scale study show evidence of conventionalisation, more prominently in the translations of the popular scientific text, while the participants’ perception of a particular collocation also seems to have played a role. This study offers new insights into Croatian translations from English with respect to collocations and conventionalisation, as well as showing that translation universals can still be a fruitful topic of research.
Abstract (croatian)
Kontroverzni pojam prijevodnih univerzalija, koje su prvobitno opisane kao apsolutne zakonitosti u prijevodima, danas je shvaćen više kao koncept koji opisuje probabilističke tvrdnje o različitim podskupovima prijevoda. Jedna takva univerzalija – konvencionalizacija – u fokusu je ovog istraživanja. Konvencionalizacija se opisuje kao karakteristika prijevoda prema kojoj se oni prilagođavaju tipičnim obrascima ciljnog jezika, čak do razine pretjerivanja, pa elementi koji su u izvorniku nekonvencionalni postaju konvencionalnima u prijevodu. Ta se prijevodna univerzalija ovdje istražuje s pomoću triju konvencionalnih i triju nekonvencionalnih engleskih kolokacija i njihovih prijevoda na hrvatski. Cilj je saznati postaju li kolokacije zaista konvencionalnijima u prijevodima te postoji li razlika s obzirom na žanr (književni u odnosu na popularnoznanstveni tekst) i percepciju ispitanika/ispitanica o konvencionalnosti izvorne kolokacije. U ovom se istraživanju kombinira eksperiment, u kojem ispitanici/ispitanice prevode dva teksta i odgovaraju na pitanja o konvencionalnosti kolokacija, te analiza temeljena na korpusnom istraživanju čiji je cilj procijeniti konvencionalnost određene kolokacije. Rezultati ovog istraživanja manjeg opsega upućuju na postojanje konvencionalizacije, koja je istaknutija u prijevodima popularnoznanstvenog teksta, dok percepcije ispitanika/ispitanica također pokazuju značajnu ulogu u konvencionalizaciji. Ovim se istraživanje pružaju nova saznanja o hrvatskim prijevodima s engleskog jezika s obzirom na kolokacije i konvencionalizaciju te pokazuje da su prijevodne univerzalije još uvijek vrijedne istraživanja.
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Keywords (croatian)
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:043051
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL
Course: Translation
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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