“Grow over one’s head” – Translating an idiom-based wordplay from Swedish into Romanian
In this article a selected number of Swedish and Romanian idioms are discussed andanalyzed from different point of views. Starting from one Swedish verbal idiom – växa någon överhuvudet (‘grow over one’s head’) – used in a wordplay in a Swedish authentic text and itstranslation in Romanian, the disc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Vasile Goldis Western University, Arad
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Studii de Stiinta si Cultura |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/images/stories/27/17%20Apelkvist.pdf |
| Summary: | In this article a selected number of Swedish and Romanian idioms are discussed andanalyzed from different point of views. Starting from one Swedish verbal idiom – växa någon överhuvudet (‘grow over one’s head’) – used in a wordplay in a Swedish authentic text and itstranslation in Romanian, the discussion goes on to examine the strategy chosen by the translatorsand a potential equivalent in Romanian of the Swedish original idiom. The proposed equivalent iscompared with yet another Swedish idiom. The differences and the similarities of the threecompared idioms – according to structures, semantics, to the character of the semantic roles andthe metaphorical meaning of them – are discussed. Thus the article deals both with translation andphraseological studies intertwined with contrastive linguistics. |
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| ISSN: | 1841-1401 2067-5135 |