Ein Hermannstädter Hexenprozess aus dem Jahr 1697 : kulturhistorische und translatologische Betrachtungen

  • The analyzed and translated text represents a judicial protocol of a witch trial from 1697. After a brief description of the general phenomenon of the witch hunt and it’s characteristics in 17th century Transylvania the text is discussed from a point of view of its translation. The most problematic aspects are found in the depositions of the witnesses, which abound in linguistic peculiarities, ranging from archaic structures to dialect. The translator faces a dilemma when having to decide whether to translate the archaic structures into archaic ones, thus preserving the stylistic personality of the text, or into modern Romanian, which would mean creating an “open translation”. In any case the translation should not neglect the informative and oral character of the source text.

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Author:Carmen Popa
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-654628
URL:http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/37.3.2.pdf
ISSN:2247-4633
ISSN:1454-5144
Parent Title (German):Germanistische Beiträge
Publisher:Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
Place of publication:Sibiu / Hermannstadt
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Year of Completion:2015
Year of first Publication:2015
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/01/21
Tag:archaic structures and dialect; judicial protocol; translation; witch trial; “open translation”
Volume:37
Page Number:18
First Page:196
Last Page:213
HeBIS-PPN:491125372
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht
4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 94 Geschichte Europas / 940 Geschichte Europas
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:Germanistische Beiträge / Germanistische Beiträge 37.2015
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-655454
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht