TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuusi, Päivi
T1  - Features of discourse presentation in translation : literary and narratological insights into translation universals
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - Several translation scholars have recognised translation as a form of discourse mediation or discourse presentation (see, for example, Mossop 1998). In line with this, "universals" of translation have also been re-framed in the larger context of discourse mediation, as mediation universals rather than something strictly translationspecific (Ulrych 2009). In the present article, this line of enquiry is developed by comparing some of the alleged universals of translation, namely standardization and explicitation, with insights from literary and narratological studies on the nature of discourse presentation. The notion of reportive or interpretative interference (Sternberg 1982) and Fludernik’s (1993) claim that all represented discourse is typical and schematic in nature seem to bear curious resemblance to the notion of standardization or normalization, posited as a possible universal of translation (Mauranen & Kujamäki 2004). Drawing on the results of my earlier research (Kuusi 2011), I present examples of free indirect discourse (FID) used in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment with their translations into Finnish. Analyzing the translations, I demonstrate how in
translations, the narratological and literary-theoretical notions of reportive interference and typification/schematization coincide with the translation-theoretical notions of explicitation and standardization.
KW  - Discourse mediation
KW  - discourse presentation
KW  - translation universals
KW  - standardization
KW  - explicitation
KW  - normalization
KW  - typification
KW  - naturalization
KW  - free indirect discourse
KW  - direct discourse
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48413
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484135
SN  - 2194-5594
N1  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
VL  - 5
IS  - 3, Art. 5
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz, Germany
ER  -