AUC PHILOLOGICA
AUC PHILOLOGICA

AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.

The journal is indexed in CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, and ERIH PLUS.

AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2015 No 3 (2015), 141–147

Revitalizing structuralism in Slovak translation theory – potential and limitations

Mária Valentová, Lýdia Čechová

published online: 10. 03. 2016

abstract

The revitalization of classical structuralist methodologies brought about the birth of the Slovak theory of literary translation in the 1960s, represented in the works of the Slovak literary theoreticians Anton Popovič and František Miko. Applying their concept of literary communication, they emphasized the reader’s reception and interpretation of a literary text. Following their theoretical model, they examined translation as a text – that is to say, a text as a basic communication unit. For Popovič translation appeared to be a text about a text, whereas Miko believed that translation was one of many variants. In this article we aim to test the potential and limits of the revitalized methodological model of Popovič and Miko and their connection with contemporary tendencies such as cultural studies, cognitive linguistics, etc. In order to examine the effectiveness of their application in translation studies, we have chosen the category of translatability, which in the classical theory of translation indicates the specific features of a translated text.

keywords: structuralism; literary translation; translation theory; Nitra school; stylistic model; metatext; prototext

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ISSN: 0567-8269
E-ISSN: 2464-6830

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