Verfahren der Wiedergabe von Eigennamen im Sprachenpaar Deutsch-Slowakisch am Beispiel von literarischen Texten

Abstract

The submitted article deals with following question: which translation procedures are used in translation of literary names and in what scope. We offer the answer based on the analysis of 4632 names from slovak translations of german literary works. In the analysed corpus we detected 9 procedures which we describe in closer detail. Subsequently we make provision also for the time aspect of origination of translation and statistically verify thesis that comtemporary translations are characterized by exotisation, whereas the translations from sixties and seventies of the twentieth century naturalized in a greater extent. In the article we interconnect the knowledge from literary onomastic and translatology, we describe in a closer detail individual phases of translation process, as well as the analysis of proper names.