Translation of culture-specific items in texts dealing with the British education system

Zoković-Paić, Katarina. (2019). Translation of culture-specific items in texts dealing with the British education system. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of English Language and Literature. [mentor Pavlović, Nataša].

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Abstract

This thesis consists of a discussion on the translation of culture-specific items, accompanied by five annotated translations. The included translations are excerpts from four books and several summaries of reviews in the sphere of healthcare. Of those excerpts, three were translated from English into Croatian and two from Croatian into English. Excerpts from books Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival by G. Hofstede, G.J. Hofstede and M. Minkov and A University Education by D. Willetts were translated from English into Croatian, as well as Plain Language Summaries of Cochrane Reviews. Excerpts from the book on the Starčevo culture at the Tomašanci-Palača site ordered by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, as well as the excerpt from a short story included in the book Društvene Igre by Andrija Škare, were translated from Croatian into English. The discussion centers around the culture-specific items (CSIs) related to the British education system based on the translated excerpt from the book A University Education by D. Willetts. It consists of the theoretical part, which defines culture-specific items, explores various criteria that need to be taken into account in the process of translation of such elements and proposes a classification of procedures for their translation. The practical part of the discussion is an analysis of specific examples from the text, which shows the complexity of the translation process and examines different approaches and methods for the translation of CSIs.

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