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Antjie Krog se vertaling van Henk van Woerden se roman Een mond vol glas
Literator | Vol 23, No 2 | a334 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v23i2.334
| © 2002 H.P. van Coller
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Submitted: 06 August 2002 | Published: 06 August 2002
Submitted: 06 August 2002 | Published: 06 August 2002
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H.P. van Coller, Departement Afrikaans & Nederlands en Moderne Europese Tale, Universiteit van die Vrystaat, Bloemfontein, South AfricaFull Text:
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Antjie Krog’s translation of Henk van Woerden’s novel Een mond vol glas (A mouth full of glass)
Against a historical backdrop several critical approaches to translational theory are explicated. Traditional criticism seems to imply positioning between the Source Text (ST) and the Target Text (TT). A functionalist approach (as propagated among others by Snell-Hornby, Nord and Naaijkens) is a descriptive rather than a normative approach that focuses almost exclusively on the ST. This approach is consequently adopted in the evaluation of Krog’s translation; yet even within this more relativistic paradigm, a comparison between ST and TT should not be evaded. In the case of Krog’s translation, this comparison leads to the identification of scores of lexical, grammatical and stylistic errors.
Against a historical backdrop several critical approaches to translational theory are explicated. Traditional criticism seems to imply positioning between the Source Text (ST) and the Target Text (TT). A functionalist approach (as propagated among others by Snell-Hornby, Nord and Naaijkens) is a descriptive rather than a normative approach that focuses almost exclusively on the ST. This approach is consequently adopted in the evaluation of Krog’s translation; yet even within this more relativistic paradigm, a comparison between ST and TT should not be evaded. In the case of Krog’s translation, this comparison leads to the identification of scores of lexical, grammatical and stylistic errors.
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Literary Translation; Theory Of Translation; Translation Problems; H Van Woerden; Een Mond Vol Glas
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