| Title: | SLOVENE TRANSLATIONS OF ENGLISH PERSONAL NAME IDIOMS |
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| Authors: | ID Novak, Špela (Author)
ID Šabec, Nada (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  UNI_Novak_Spela_2014.pdf (1,22 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Typology: | 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | Idiomatic expressions in English abound and form an important part of it. They are commonly used in spoken as well as written discourse. Idioms are fixed expressions consisting of more than one word whose meaning is not deducible from the meanings of its individual words. Most of them are fixed in their form, but in some cases the grammar or the vocabulary can vary slightly. The research I conducted consists of 192 personal name idioms. The origin, the explanation and example sentences for each idiom, as well as their Slovene translations are provided. The purpose of the diploma paper is to discover the scope of Slovene equivalents for English personal name idioms and find solutions for those idioms which do not have Slovene equivalents. For that purpose all idioms were divided into four groups according to the way in which they are translated. Data analysis has shown that the group of English personal name idioms with identical Slovene equivalents and the group of English personal name idioms with no Slovene equivalents are approximately the same in number. The reason for the quite high number of idioms in the group of identical Slovene equivalents is that many personal names come from the Bible, Greek and Roman mythologies or literature which are also known and used in Slovene. The reason for the high number of idioms in the group of English personal name idioms with no Slovene equivalents is due to the fact that they carry a lot of culturally specific information, such as history, custom, geography, etc. In such cases, I proposed Slovene translations in a descriptive manner. With regard to the number of idioms, the third group consists of English personal name idioms with corresponding meaning, but no personal name in Slovene, whereas the smallest group is the group of personal name idioms whose personal names in English differ from the ones in Slovene. |
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| Keywords: | idiomatic expressions, personal names, Slovene equivalents, cultural information |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [Š. Novak] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2014 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-43371 |
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| UDC: | 811.111'373.72:81'25=163.6(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 20304136 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:EZWILF0V |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 28.01.2014 |
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| Categories: | FF
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