The discoursemarker odnosno at theICTY:Acaseof disputed translation in war crimetrials  

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Miskovic-Lukovic, Mirjana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 10 (2012), page 1355-1377.
Topik: Adhoc conceptconstruction; Discoursemarker; Interpretiveuse; Proceduralmeaning; Reformulation; Translation; Bosnian/ Croatian/Serbian
Fulltext: Miskovic-Lukovic_M.pdf (362.1KB)

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What discoursemarkersmeandependsnotonlyonthelocalcontext(co-text),butalso,andmorewidely,onglobalcontextssuchas political, ideologicalandinstitutional.Thisconclusionwasderivedfromourcognitiveandsociopragmaticanalysisofthetranslationofthe Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian(BCS)3 discourse marker odnosno (‘that is’, ‘in otherwords’), whichgenerallyhastwodominantfunctions: distributive andreformulative.Weintroduceanovelinsightintothisproblembyapplyingtherelevance-theoreticframeworkof ad hoc concept constructionasouranalyticalapparatus.TheselectionofinterpretationisanalysedonthedatafromatrialattheInternational Criminal TribunalfortheFormerYugoslavia(ICTY)inwhichthedefencelegalteamdisputedtheway odnosno was translatedbycourt translators/interpretersinseveralinstances.Wefindthecognitiveoptionsthatweretakenasresourcesfortheevasionoftranslator's responsibilitytowardsa ‘‘disagreeable’’ meaning. Bychoosingthemostneutraltranslation,however,thetranslatoroftenstepsasidefrom the court-requireddirecttranslationtype.

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