Intercultural Context in Translation of Proper Nouns
[Interkultúrny kontext pri preklade proprií]
Mojmir Malovecky
DOI: 10.18355/XL.2015.08.04.10-14
Abstract
The author offers a study concerned with historical French proper nouns in translation and linguistic theory in the frame of a case study of translation of the texts about medieval history of France interconnected to intercultural extralinguistic context. Pragmalinguistic knowledge base of the receiving language community is decisive for translators to make an appropriate choice of equivalents in order to better serve the cultivated linguistic culture of the target language in the direct link to a more comprehensive translated text.
Key words
proper nouns, translation, linguistic theory, intercultural context, history
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