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Namen und Übersetzung oder besser: Wiedergabe von Namen in der Übersetzung
Full text linkThe present paper deals with a number of aspects, that are connected with the complex topic “names and translation”. Thereby the focus does not lie on the general question of translatability of names, but shows several cases in which names are translated: Geographical names, personal names, names of products and finally names in literature
Luther, Calvin, Protestant oder die frühe Wahrnehmung der europäischen Reformation in Portugal und der Neuen Welt
Full text linkLuther, Calvin, Protestant or the early perception of the European Reformation in Portugal and the New World: Mostly uncommented compilation of some early records or echos
Rezension zu Hans Ramge: Studien zu hessischen Familiennamen
Full text linkHans Ramge: Studien zu hessischen Familiennamen (Sprache, Literatur, Kommunikation – Geschichte und Gegenwart 4), Gießen 2015, 237 S. – Gießener elektronische Bibliothek: geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2015/11314/
Übersetzung von geographischen Namen – am Beispiel des Sprachenpaares Deutsch-Ungarisch
Full text link“Translating Geographical Names (Hungarian-German)”. Translating proper names (nomina propria) is an often debated question in Translation Studies. The translability of names is, by all probability, in close connection with the semantic structure and the invariance of their meaning. The opinions vary from total denial of translability to presentation of differentiated translation methods. The present study deals with the translation of geographic names from Hungarian to German. It shows different strategies from unaltered loanwords to interlingual allonyms, and to real translations. The translation strategies of names in case of Hungarian-German relation is obviously in close connection with the strong linguistic and cultural bonds between the two languages, the familiarity and importance of the denotatums. As it can be seen, the translation of geographical names in in the junction of linguistic, cultural, pragmatics and language policy considerations
Der slawische Adel, seine Sprache und seine Namen zwischen Saale und Elbe vom 10. bis 13. Jahrhundert
Full text linkSlavic nobility, language and names between the rivers Saale and Elbe (10th-13th centuries) – In 2018 the archbishopric Magdeburg will celebrate its 1050th anniversary of existence. Therefore several questions in connection with interethnic relations between Slavic population and German governers are treated. From 930 up till 1150 a. Chr. a Slavonic majority was dominated by a German minority in all districts between the rivers Saale and Elbe. The author gives different answers and arguments by linguistic material to demonstrate mutual acknowledgement and tolerance by two different ethnics. The historical view allows results about interethnic communication since the 10th century. Furthermore an important fact can be made evident: German government accepted and preserved the old Slavic castles, regional names and lots of toponyms as signs of the former structure of the Slavic territory. The article offers special attention to the members of Slavic nobility. The author verifies about hundred persons with their names as examples of Slavic noble born representatives. Historical documents explain these persons’ duties as well as their secular and clerical charges in the time of Middle Ages. Some can be shown in top functions near to the German king or his margrave. German representatives apparently used the so called lingua Slavica misssionarica not only as language of Christian conversion, but also when it was necessary to discuss and to treat themes of administration
Gradiva. Der übersetzte Name und sein Abbild
Full text linkGradiva – the translated name and its visual representation. – The name Gradiva appears first in a short novel which the German author Wilhelm Jensen published in 1903. It became famous because Sigmund Freud analyzed Jensen’s novella in his study Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s ‘Gradiva’ (1907). In this story the young archaeologist Norbert Hanold is obsessed by a classical relief representing a young woman walking in a special, elegant way. Therefore he calls her Gradiva (she who advances). The young woman appears to him in dreams when Vesuvius is about to erupt in Pompeii, and he feels he has to visit this ancient Italian site. Here the same phantasmagorical figure appears to him. At first he believes her to be the incarnation of the ancient Gradiva, but later he realizes that she is not the reincarnation of a Pompeiian maiden, but his living childhood girlfriend. – The aim of this paper is to show that it is not a physical likeness between the archeologist’s girlfriend and the ancient relief which lies at the root of Hanold’s delusion, as Freud asserts, or a fetichist obsession, as his followers claim, but the surname of his girlfriend: Gradiva is a translation of her repressed surname Bertgang, and the ancient relief is the visual representation of this name. – The final paragraph of this paper shows the significance which Gradiva attained for the Surrealist movement, whose members declared her to be their “muse”
Proper Names in Audiovisual Translation. Dubbing vs Subtitling
Full text linkThis study combines two aspects of particular interest in the field of translation: the study of proper names, which, having a particular idiosyncrasy, make for especially interesting analysis in an interlinguistic context, and audiovisual translation, which, on account of the inherent restrictions governing a text of this nature, has particular characteristics. The precise aim of this study will be to analyse how proper names are dealt with in the two most established forms of audiovisual translation – dubbing and subtitling – using the German film Berlin is in Germany as an object of study. The Spanish dubbed and subtitled versions of the original German text will be analysed to determine the extent to which these two techniques may influence the final result, given the specific limitations of each form
Das festlandkeltische Hydronym *Langvros: Rekonstruktion und Integration
Full text linkThe name of the river Lambro/Lambrus near Milano (Italy/Roman province Gallia-Transpadana) will be reconstructed as indoeuropean *h1lṇgwhró-s ‘quick’. Compared with other geographic names it will be supposed, that Lambrus is a celtic relict name. The problem is, in which way celtic labiovelars, e.g. /gw/, are integrated in the post-celtic languages
Anthroponyme in der Amtskommunikation aus dem Blickwinkel der nationalen Bedürfnisse – unter Berücksichtigung interkultureller Besonderheiten
Full text linkThe present paper deals with the transcription issues of personal names in the intercultural communication and the East – West migration within Europe, especially after 1990. The difficulties in the area result from the various spelling systems, especially between the Latin and Cyrillic script, but also from the usage of various national norms of practical transcription or transliteration. In the Slovak Republic, in official communication and documentation (birth certificates, ‘Abitur’ certificates, diploma certificates, etc.) transcription following the guidelines of the Ministry of Culture of SR using the letters of the Slovak alphabet is required; which, however, does not correlate with the English transcription. Thus, it is difficult for translators to reproduce the documents originally written in the Cyrillic script in such a manner, which would not cause miscommunication, because a migrant’s first official document is a passport, using the transcription of personal names based on the English spelling norm. A specific problem lies in the transcription of Hebrew anthroponyms from Cyrillic to Latin script, as that can result in phonetic dissonance
Leipzig – die Herkunft des Namens ist rein slawisch!
Full text linkLeipzig – the origin of the name is purely Slavonic! – It thanks to Karlheinz Hengst that the centuries-old onomastic legend about the name of Leipzig as Old Sorbian *Lipsk- meaning ‘place of lime-trees’ has been called in question. Instead of that legend and a possible new one consisting in the recent interpretation as ‘place in an area abounding with river water’ to a pre-Slavonic (Germanic) root the paper shows that the oldest evidence of the toponym finds an easy explanation as a purely Slavonic one. The from Thietmar’s chronicle is nothing else than Old Sorbian *Liḃci/*Liḃcě, formed as a plural inhabitants’ name on the basis of *liḃc ‘a lean, feeble, puny person’. This explanation is well founded by a series of similarly structured and semantically comparable Czech place names on the one hand and by the historical evidence of the root *lib- in several Slavonic languages on the other. Further, the author questions that later forms of the name containing -, -, - etc originally represent the suffix -sk-. They probably are an early alternative deminutive form *Liḃčky increasing the nature of the toponym as a nickname, the forms Lipsk, Lipsko of modern Polish, Sorbian and Czech presumably being the result of interpreting (written and spoken) Germanized forms from the 14th century