La cultura andina en un contexto sueco : Un análisis de la traducción de los elementos culturales y dialectales en la biografía "Evo Morales: el cambio comenzó en Bolivia"

• Main Author: Berthelsen, Susanna
• Format: Others
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR) 2013
• Subjects: translation; culture; dialect; translation strategies; översättning; kultur; dialekt; översättningsstrategier; traducción; cultura; dialecto; estrategias de traducción; Specific Languages; Studier av enskilda språk
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-28969

The present paper treats translation difficulties arising from the translation of a political biography from Spanish into Swedish. More specifically it deals with the translation of cultural and dialectal aspects typical of the Andean region. Parting from the 18 translation strategies defined by Amparo Hurtado Albir (2001) it studies the application and frequency of said strategies when translating cultural references. The aspects treated were divided into cultural and dialectal aspects, with the first category being divided into three subcategories: the Andean culture, geographical references, and other cultural references. The conclusions were that the strategy most frequently applied was that which Hurtado Albir (2001) calls a mplificación, meaning that information is added to the target text to explain phenomena unknown in the target culture. This strategy was often accompanied by a préstamo, that is, a loan of the source language word into the target text. In the translation of dialect the main tendency found was that of a neutralization of the non standard language.