<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of the present paper is to explore the difficulties translators have to face when translating discourse markers in general, and reformulation markers in particular. In the first part of the paper I will attempt to answer the question of why discourse markers are notoriously difficult to translate. Next, I will look at some of the genre-specific features pertaining to the translation of scripted discourse and subtitles. In the second part of the paper, after providing an overview of previous research into reformulation and reformulation markers, I will present the results of a case study of the translation of the English reformulation markers <italic>I mean</italic> and <italic>actually</italic> into Hungarian. By way of concluding, I will argue that a wider repertoire of translation strategies is needed in order to achieve dynamic equivalence in the target text.</p></abstract>

The aim of the present paper is to explore the difficulties translators have to face when translating discourse markers in general, and reformulation markers in particular. In the first part of the paper I will attempt to answer the question of why discourse markers are notoriously difficult to translate. Next, I will look at some of the genre-specific features pertaining to the translation of scripted discourse and subtitles. In the second part of the paper, after providing an overview of previous research into reformulation and reformulation markers, I will present the results of a case study of the translation of the English reformulation markers I mean and actually into Hungarian. By way of concluding, I will argue that a wider repertoire of translation strategies is needed in order to achieve dynamic equivalence in the target text.

Perspectives on the Translation of Discourse Markers: <italic>A Case Study of the Translation of Reformulation Markers from English into Hungarian</italic>

Department of English Linguistics Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Perspectives on the Translation of Discourse Markers: 

The aim of the present paper is to explore the difficulties translators have to face when translating discourse markers in general, and reformulation markers...

Perspectives on the Translation of Discourse Markers: A Case Study of the Translation of Reformulation Markers from English into Hungarian

Published Online: Mar 01, 2015

Page range: 181 - 196

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0013

Keywords
discourse markers, reformulation markers, the translation of illocutionary phenomena, scripted discourse, the language of subtitles

© 2015 Bálint Péter Furkó

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Perspectives on the Translation of Discourse Markers: A Case Study of the Translation of Reformulation Markers from English into Hungarian

Published Online: Mar 01, 2015

Page range: 181 - 196

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0013

Keywordsdiscourse markers, reformulation markers, the translation of illocutionary phenomena, scripted discourse, the language of subtitles

© 2015 Bálint Péter Furkó

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
discourse markers, reformulation markers, the translation of illocutionary phenomena, scripted discourse, the language of subtitles