Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation

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Autor principal: María José García Vizcaíno
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Publicado: Universidad de Antioquia 2008
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contents Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation María José García Vizcaíno Lengua y Literatura Code switching translation compensation explicitation The pragmatic consequences of code-switching in the field of literary translation, especially in the case of Chicano novels that are written in English but code-switches to Spanish for pragmatic, narrative and stylistic purposes have barely been studied so far. The aim of this paper is to analyze how code-switching has been dealt with in the translation into Spanish of these novels that, although written in English, use Spanish to convey specific pragmatic functions and certain stylistic effects. Our corpus will consist of three novels by Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Caramelo) and their translations into Spanish. Preliminary results point out that most code-switching values, which in the source texts are signaled by the alternation between two different languages, sometimes are lost in translation. We propose here two techniques to translate these pragmatic values: explicitation and compensation. One of the most important consequences of the study is the need for a through pragmalinguistic analysis of the source text, especially when the main linguistic feature of the text is the intentional shifting of languages for strategic reasons. 2008 artículo científico 2011-799X https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=499267782009 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4992 Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción application/pdf Universidad de Antioquia Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.1
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spellingShingle Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation
María José García Vizcaíno
Lengua y Literatura
Code
switching
translation
compensation
explicitation
Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation María José García Vizcaíno Lengua y Literatura Code switching translation compensation explicitation The pragmatic consequences of code-switching in the field of literary translation, especially in the case of Chicano novels that are written in English but code-switches to Spanish for pragmatic, narrative and stylistic purposes have barely been studied so far. The aim of this paper is to analyze how code-switching has been dealt with in the translation into Spanish of these novels that, although written in English, use Spanish to convey specific pragmatic functions and certain stylistic effects. Our corpus will consist of three novels by Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Caramelo) and their translations into Spanish. Preliminary results point out that most code-switching values, which in the source texts are signaled by the alternation between two different languages, sometimes are lost in translation. We propose here two techniques to translate these pragmatic values: explicitation and compensation. One of the most important consequences of the study is the need for a through pragmalinguistic analysis of the source text, especially when the main linguistic feature of the text is the intentional shifting of languages for strategic reasons. 2008 artículo científico 2011-799X https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=499267782009 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4992 Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción application/pdf Universidad de Antioquia Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.1
title Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation
topic Lengua y Literatura
Code
switching
translation
compensation
explicitation
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=499267782009