CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN TRANSLATING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE CASE OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND ITS TRANSLATIONS IN MACEDONIAN

Hristodulov, Kosta and Neshkovska, Silvana (2021) CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN TRANSLATING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE CASE OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND ITS TRANSLATIONS IN MACEDONIAN. TEACHER International Journal of Education, 22. pp. 25-36. ISSN ISSN 1857- 8888 (online)

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Abstract

In translating children’s books, translators have to take into consideration the fact that
children have limited knowledge of the world around them and reproduce the text in the
target language by compensating for that lack of knowledge, i.e. by relaying information in a
way that is understandable for children. In order for translators to achieve that, they use a
wide array of translation strategies commensurate with the issues they are dealing with.
The goal of this study is to examine a specific set of translational challenges as well as the
translation strategies used to overcome those challenges in translating children’s books. More
precisely, the study focuses on the translation of personal names, titles, food-related terms
and puns, through a careful analysis of selected linguistic units of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in
Wonderland” and their translational equivalents in the Macedonian translations of this novel
(Gjuzel (1965); Temkov (1978), and Acevska (2009)). The results of this research indicate
the Macedonian translators of “Alice in Wonderland” employed different translation
strategies mainly directed at preserving the cultural significance of the source language terms
but also at adapting some of the terms be more in line with the target language and culture.
Keywords: children’s literature, translation, strategies, puns, names, titles

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Education
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r Silvana Neshkovska
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2023 05:33
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2023 05:33
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8125

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