Strategies applied in the english-lithuanian translation of "the economist" headlines /

The problem of untranslatability has developed over the time and various scholars came up with different solutions. There are numerous translation types, that have different translation rules. Journalistic translation is one of them and headline is the most important part of the article. While translating headlines, a translator should make them short, clear, and catching to the potential reader. Also, headlines should not be ambiguous or misleading. The prestigious British newspaper “The Economist” follows these rules creating high-journalism headlines. Lithuanian journal “IQ” translates some of the articles from the “The Economist”. The subject of this thesis is to analyse English-Lithuanian translation strategies applied in English-Lithuanian translation of “The Economist” headlines. The aim of the research is to analyse English-Lithuanian translation strategies. The literature review of the thesis provides the analysis of the translation strategies and methods mainly proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet (1958), as well as some other translation theoreticians. Overall, the thesis gives the analysis of 50 headlines and their translations. The analysis employs the quantitative and qualitative methods in order to calculate the frequency and examine headline characteristics. The results showed that the most popular translation method (31%) was addition because translators often wanted to explain the context. The translation methods that were not spotted at all (0%) are: adaptation, pronominalisation, depronominalisation, and adjectivisation, which can explain that often translators wanted to make headline clearer and not ambiguous. All in all, most used translation strategy was oblique, which makes 61%. The hypothesis of this thesis, that oblique translation structure is used more frequently in “IQ” headlines is approved.

Grantor dc:publisher

Institutional Repository of Vilnius University

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Karasevič, Erika,

• translation strategies, translation methods, headline translation, journalistic translation, The Economist, IQ, vertimo strategijos, vertimo metodai, antraščių vertimas, žurnalistinis vertimas

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD210586774&prefLang=en_US

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oai:vu.lt:elaba:210586774