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Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts
2023. urn:nbn:hr:142:658319
Konjarević, Denis
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Konjarević, D. (2023). Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević, Denis. "Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević, Denis. "Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević, D. (2023). 'Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 02 August 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

Konjarević D. Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2023 [cited 2024 August 02] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

D. Konjarević, "Modality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2023. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:658319

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TitleModality Shifts in Translating English Modal Verbs into Croatian in Legal and Literary Texts
Title (croatian)Promjene u modalnosti pri prevođenju engleskih modalnih glagola na hrvatski jezik u pravnim i književnim tekstovima
AuthorDenis Konjarević
MentorAna Werkmann (mentor)
Committee memberMarija Omazić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberAna Werkmann (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberDubravka Vidaković Erdeljić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Osijek
Defense date and country2023-11-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This study aimed to examine the general features of the translation of English modal verbs into Croatian in legal and literary texts with an emphasis on two kinds of shifts taking place in the translation process: shifts in the strength of modal verbs and those in the means of modal expression. The lack of research concerning the contrastive analysis of the translation of modal verbs (and modality in general) in the Croatian language served as the rationale for writing the present thesis. For the purpose of the analysis, a total of 520 randomly selected sample sentences containing modal verbs must, should, ought to, and may were extracted from legal and literary corpora and aligned with the same number of their Croatian translations. The data were then analyzed to elucidate the motivators for the translator’s employment of a translation causing a shift in modality in order to detect how such translation solutions reflect the general characteristics of the two genres regarding modality in terms of their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features influencing the translation process. The results of the study demonstrated that shifts in the strength of modal verbs were more frequent in the legal corpus, primarily due to the existence of a strong contextual framework of rules and regulations in which modals were embedded, drawing on its strength. Shifts in the means of modal expression were more prominent in the literary corpus, primarily due to the great relevance of epistemic modal verbs to this genre, whose syntactic properties in the target language prompted the translator to avoid using them for stylistic reasons.
Abstract (croatian)
Cilj ovog rada bio je istražiti opće značajke prijevoda engleskih modalnih glagola na hrvatski jezik u pravnim i književnim tekstovima s naglaskom na dvije vrste promjena koje se događaju pri prevođenju: promjene u jačini modalnih glagola i promjene u sredstvu modalnog iskaza. Razlog odabira teme ovog rada je slaba zastupljenost istraživanja s obzirom na kontrastivnu analizu prijevoda modalnih glagola (i modalnosti uopće) u hrvatskom jeziku. U svrhu analize prikupljeno je 520 rečenica iz pravnih i književnih korpusa koje su sadržavale modalne glagole must, should, ought to i may i koje su potom bile uparene s istim brojem njihovih prijevoda na hrvatski. Prikupljena građa zatim je raščlanjena s ciljem utvrđivanja čimbenika koji utječu na uporabu prevoditeljskih rješenja koja uzrokuju promjene u modalnosti kako bi se utvrdilo na koji način takva rješenja odražavaju opće karakteristike dvaju žanrova glede pojma modalnosti u smislu njihovih sintaktičkih, semantičkih i pragmatičkih značajki koje utječu na prevoditeljski proces. Rezultati istraživanja pokazali su veću prisutnost promjena u modalnoj jačini u pravnom korpusu, prvenstveno zbog snažnog kontekstualnog okvira pravila i propisa u koji su modalni glagoli u pravnom diskursu smješteni, oslanjajući se na njegovu jačinu. Promjene u sredstvu modalnog iskaza bile su izraženije u književnom korpusu, najviše zbog snažne zastupljenosti epistemičkih modalnih glagola u ovom žanru, zbog čijih je sintaktičkih svojstava u ciljnom jeziku prevoditelj iz stilskih razloga u pravilu izbjegavao njihovu uporabu u prijevodu.
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Languagecroatian
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:658319
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Philology
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Philosophy (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije filozofije (magistar/magistra edukacije filozofije)
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