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Translating Croatian Gastronomical Terminology
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Dario Zagorec Gastronomy is a crucial element of any culture and it developed over the course of centuries or even millennia. Tied to the people that call it their own, it can be a challenge for translators to properly transfer the specifics and nuances of foreign food into a language and culture that it was never intended for. This paper brings together the research of various scholars, linguists and translators in order to explore the complex methodology of translating gastronomical terms and phrases as...
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Translating Croatian into English: Dealing with Translations of Short Texts of Different Genres
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Eni Mamuzić This B.A. thesis consists of four translations from Croatian into English, each of which is a text of different genre. Each translation is preceded by an introduction, and accompanied by a commentary and analysis that explain various difficulties and problems encountered in the process of translation. The four translations in this thesis are: translation of a legislative text, translation of an article from a political weekly magazine, translation of an article about a painter from an...
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Translating Croatian into English: Working on Different Types of Texts
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Jakov Kršovnik This thesis covers four English translations of Croatian source texts: The Return to Hannibal, Rijeka during the Napoleonic Wars from 1793 to 1813, It is all Chemistry and The Regulation about the Publication of the Agreement Each translated text is preceded by a short introduction, and after the text there are comments on the process of translation and the problems experienced during translation. The purpose of the thesis is to show how the translator has to adapt to different topics and...
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Translating Culture-Bound Humorous Content from English into Croatian in the British Television Show "Only Fools and Horses"
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Mia Uzelac The present thesis challenges the methods provided by Jan Pedersen for translating culture-bound humorous content in the television show „Only Fools and Horses“from English into Croatian language. The first part of the thesis reffers to the theoretical background concerning translation, humour and subtitling. The second part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of the examples of culture- bound humorous content from the five pre-selected episodes of the aforementioned television show....
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Translating EU Legal Texts: a Corpus-informed Analysis of Croatian and English Cryptocurrency Legislation
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Lucija Togonal This Master's thesis covers the subject of institutional translation within the EU. It explores existing problems in translating EU legislation by focusing on newer phenomena, specifically cryptocurrency legislation. The thesis opens with an introduction, and a theoretical overview of institutional translation in the European Union. After providing a broader theoretical context, it focuses on the main problems in translating EU legislation from English into Croatian. Following this, a...
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Translating English-Croatian Idioms: Where Language and Technology Meet
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Marijana Gašparović From the perspective of a translator from Croatian to English and vice-versa, there is a need to
develop a platform for translation of idioms, since currently available (online) sources do not
present satisfactory results. In their translation process, translators rely on both physical as well
as online dictionaries, web search and machine translation platforms. However, while physical
dictionaries tend to be too bulky, expensive, not widely available, and unable to follow in real
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Translating Multimodal Literature
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Ana Ivaniš This thesis deals with a translation of two literary texts from English to Croatian and three texts from Croatian to English, each of which is multimodal in character. The translations are preceded by a theoretical section discussing multimodality in general and the methodology for analysing the translations, and followed by the analysis section, which deals with concrete issues that arose during the translation process. The findings show that nearly none of the multimodal elements made...
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Translating Prose Fiction: Janko Leskovar's Short Stories in English Translation
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Nina Dojčinović Translation of fiction is a rewarding act that encourages creativity, but it is also one
where theory is a valuable tool for directing one's energy in the right direction. This thesis will
demonstrate the use of theoretical principles in translating prose fiction from Croatian into
English. Specifically, three short stories by the Croatian author Janko Leskovar will be
translated, namely “Katastrofa”, “Priča o ljubavi”, and “Kraljica zemlje”. Leskovar's life and
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Translating Scientific Texts from Croatian into English
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Nino Vukalović For this thesis, I have chosen three scientific texts which I will translate from Croatian into English. The main part of the thesis are the three source texts and their translations. The first text concerns the quality and the content of information about stress on the Internet during Croatian language search, the second talks about the information needs and the behavior of high school students when searching for health information and the third text explores the digital competencies of...
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Translating Scientific Texts from Croatian into English
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Matea Macan This B.A. thesis consists of the introductory part that gives an insight into the methodology of the thesis, while the main body consists of three scientific texts in Croatian and their translation into English, as well as an analysis of each text. The thesis will address the difficulties encountered while translating three scientific texts from Croatian into English. The first text deals with depression in women (particularly women in Croatia) who are in the process of medically assisted...
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Translating Scientific Texts from Croatian into English
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Marija Matoš This B.A. thesis addresses the difficulties in translating scientific texts from Croatian into English. The introductory part gives insight into the goal and methodology of the thesis, while the main body comprises the three texts in Croatian, their translations into English and the analysis of each text. The first text regards the topic of dance and its evolution. The second text elaborates on chocolate composition and the processes of the making of chocolate. The third text is on pedagogic...
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Translating Scientific Texts from Croatian into English
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Viktorija Kopjar In the following pages, I will translate three excerpts from scientific papers and then present the process of translation and identify the main problems in translating scientific papers. The main body of this work consists of three source texts in Croatian and their English translations. The first translated paper concerns social stories and children with autism spectrum disorder, the second paper deals with portrayals of children in Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana-Brlić Mažuranić...
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