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Title:A Comparison of the Occurrence of Modal Tenses and Modal Verbs in Fiction
Authors:ID Krajnc, Minja (Author)
ID Jurančič Petek, Klementina (Mentor) More about this mentor... New window
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Language:English
Work type:Undergraduate thesis
Typology:2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Abstract:The aim of my graduation thesis was to establish to what extant modality is preserved in translations of the modal tenses modal past tense and modal past perfect tense in the novel “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. The older translation is called “Alica v čudežni deželi” and was made by Gitica Jakopin and the second is called “Aličine prigode v čudežni deželi”, made by Helena Biffio. I wanted to establish whether the amount of preserved modality is higher in translations of modal tenses in conditional clauses where modality is more apparent than in the case of modal tenses in their usual contexts (e.g. with the verb wish and in the context of if only), where modality is less apparent. Furthermore, I examined the preservation of modality in the translation of modal verbs could, should and would and also compared them with the other two modal structures. The reason I focused on the structure of the English modal system which is not represented in the curriculum of Slovene schools and teaching English as a foreign language as much as conditional sentences and of course modal verbs, is because I wanted to point out that the number of examples of modal tenses in literature is not negligible and the function they carry is important. There were two main research questions which I focused on. Firstly, I wanted to find out to what extent English modal structures (modal verbs, conditional clauses and modal tenses) are translated into Slovene. I predicted that modality will be better preserved in translations of the modal verbs could, would and should, less in the case of modal tenses in conditional sentences and least in the case of modal tenses in their usual contexts and that translation of the modal past perfect tense will be more consistent when used in conditional clauses than in its usual contexts. The analysis showed that modality is better preserved when modal tenses are used in their usual contexts and the translation of modal past perfect is also more consistent in such cases. The second research question deals with the differences between the two translations in terms of modality. I took into consideration that Gitica Jakopin's translation is older than Helena Biffio's and therefore it is possible that she was more precise in translating modal past perfect tense into Slovene predpreteklik, which proved to be true, although the analysis showed that modality is in general better preserved in the translation by Helena Biffio. Where she had lost her percentage is in preserving modality when translating modal past perfect, either in conditional clauses or in its usual contexts. This confirms my hypothesis that predpreteklik (past perfect) is through time decreasing in use in literature, even in English-Slovene translations.
Keywords:“Alice in Wonderland”, could, should and would, modal past tense, modal past perfect tense, conditional sentences, translation, Jakopin, Biffio.
Place of publishing:Maribor
Publisher:[M. Krajnc]
Year of publishing:2013
PID:20.500.12556/DKUM-42954 New window
UDC:811.111(043.2)
COBISS.SI-ID:20175624 New window
NUK URN:URN:SI:UM:DK:WL1AZDZA
Publication date in DKUM:18.11.2013
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Primerjava pojavnosti modalnih časov in modalnih glagolov v literaturi
Abstract:Namen diplomskega dela je bila ugotovitev, do katere mere je v prevodih romana Lewisa Carrolla "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" ohranjena modalnost modalnih časov modalni preteklik in modalni predpreteklik. Starejši prevod, ki ga je prevedla Gitica Jakopin, se imenuje “Alica v čudežni deželi”, mlajši pa “Aličine prigode v čudežni deželi” in ga je prevedla Helena Biffio. Glavni cilj je bila ugotovitev, ali je modalnost bolje ohranjena, če se modalna časa pojavljata v pogojnih stavkih, kjer je tudi bolj očitna, ali pa je bolje ohranjena pri uporabi v običajnih kontekstih (z glagolom wish in v kontekstu if only), kjer je manj očitna. Poleg tega sem sem preverila, koliko je modalnost ohranjena pri prevodu glagolov could, should in would in primerjala rezultate s prej omenjenima modalnima strukturama. Vzrok, da sem se osredotočila na preučevanje modalne strukture, ki v kurikulumu za poučevanje angleščine kot tujega jezika ni tako zastopana kot pogojni stavki in seveda modalni glagoli, je, da sem želela poudariti, da število primerov v literaturi ni zanemarljivo in da opravljajo pomembno funkcijo. Zastavila sem si dve ključni raziskovalni vprašanji. Najprej sem želela ugotoviti, koliko so modalne strukture, torej modalni glagoli (could, should in would), pogojni stavki in modalni časi prevedeni v slovenščino. Predvidevala sem, da bo ohranjenost modalnosti pri prevodih padala od modalnih glagolov do modalnih časov v njihovih običajnih kontekstih ter da bo prevod modalnega predpreteklika bolj konstanten, ko bo uporabljen v pogojnih stavkih kot pa v običajnih kontekstih. Analiza je pokazala obratno, in sicer je bila modalnost bolje ohranjena, ko sta se modalna časa pojavljala v svojih običajnih kontekstih in manj v pogojnih stavkih, kar velja tudi za prevod modalnega predpreteklika. Drugo raziskovalno vprašanje se je nanašalo na razlike v modalnosti med prevodoma. Upoštevala sem, da je prevod Gitice Jakopin starejši od prevoda Helene Biffio, kar je lahko vzrok, da je bila Gitica Jakopin bolj dosledna pri prevajanju predpreteklika in to se je po analizi izkazalo za resnično, čeprav je v splošnem modalnost bolje ohranjala Helena Biffio, ki je manjkrat ohranila modalnost prav pri prevodu modalnih časov v pogojnih stavkih in v običajnih kontekstih. To je potrdilo mojo hipotezo, da se uporaba predpreteklika v literaturi zmanjšuje.
Keywords:"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", modalni glagoli could, would in should, modalni preteklik, modalni predpreteklik, pogojni stavki, prevod, Jakopin, Biffio.


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