This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish children’s writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland.
Michał Borodo is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Linguistics at the Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland, where he is also the Head of Postgraduate Studies in Translation and Interpreting.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Language of Translated Children's Fiction: Key Issues.- Chapter 3: Sketching the Context: English Translations of Polish Children's Literature.- Chapter 4: Cultural Assimilation, Foreignization, Fairytalization and Hyperbolization.- Chapter 5: Mitigation, Standardization, Simplification and Explicitation.- Chapter 6: Style and Sociolect: A Corpus-Based Study.- Chapter 7: Formal Literary Style and Modern American Idiom.- Chapter 8: On Cannibals and Savages: Translators' Treatment of Racial Issues.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.