Translation with commentary: focusing of culture-specific items

This thesis comprises six translations with commentary. Excerpts from four books were translated from English into Croatian (A University Education, United States Foreign Policy and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century, Bullying and Victimization Across the Lifespan: Playground Politics and Power and Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation), and two from Croatian into English (Sjećanje šume and Faust Vrančić – Portret izumitelja). The commentary is focused on the procedures used for the translation of culture-specific items in the texts. As translation always includes two cultures, it is important to use the most appropriate translating procedure when it comes to culture-specific items. The most commonly used procedures in the excerpts are borrowing, substitution, addition, explanation and literal translation.Rad sadrži šest prijevoda s popratnim komentarima. S engleskog na hrvatski prevedeni su ulomci iz četiriju knjiga (A University Education, United States Foreign Policy and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century, Bullying and Victimization Across the Lifespan: Playground Politics and Power i Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation), dok su s hrvatskog na engleski prevedeni ulomci iz dvaju knjiga (Sjećanje šume, Faust Vrančić – Portret izumitelja). Komentari su usmjereni na strategije koje se koriste pri prevođenju kulturno specifičnih elemenata. Budući da svaki prijevod uključuje dvije kulture, važno je odabrati najprikladniju strategiju prevođenja kulturno specifičnih elemenata. Posuđivanje, zamjena, dodavanje, objašnjenje i doslovan prijevod najčešće su korištene strategije prilikom prevođenja navedenih ulomaka