ECHOING THE TOPICALISATION TRANSFER
Keywords:
topicalisation, complementation, transfer, translator’s visibility, intersubjectivityAbstract
Literary texts present a plethora of challenges for linguistic research due to the depths of readings and interpretations they provide. When texts are translated, each new translation is a challenge that invites fresh analyses and approaches to a newly produced literary piece. This paper presents an analysis of a translation of Ivo Andrić’s The Story of the Vizier’s Elephant into English. It focuses on the analysis of clauses used as discourse segments, including complementation and topic continuity. Even though the main aim is to research morphosyntactic and syntactic means used by the translator, the attention is also paid on psycholinguistic traits that reveal the presence (or absence) of the translator’s voice as the Other.
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