Amerikanska på svenska : En kommenterad översättning av ett utdrag ur Bill Brysons populärvetenskapliga språkhistoria Made in America

Sammanfattning:

This thesis comprises a translation from English to Swedish followed by a commentary. The source text (ST) of the translation consists of the second chapter of Made in America (1998), a popularised language history by Bill Bryson. The commentary includes an analysis of the ST and the target text (TT), as well as a discussion of the translation process as a whole, and of the translation strategies applied in order to solve the translation problems of the ST. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on Toury’s notion of norms (1995), from which the following principle for translating is conceived: to transfer the ST information as faithfully as possible but with the modifications necessary to accommodate the source language competence level of the TT readers, which is estimated to be relatively low. As such, the principle for translating is mainly characterised by adequacy, but leans towards acceptability. In the concluding section of the commentary, the TT is deemed to be consistent with this principle since it constitutes an adequate text with evident traits of acceptability.