Explicitness in translation of National Geographic headlines from English to Lithuanian

This is a comparative study which examines the linguistic explicitness occuring in the Lithuanian translations of the National Geographic English headlines. The analysed corpus encompasses the headlines from five popular science magazines in English and Lithuanian. 255 headlines are examined. The theoretical part of the research discusses the terms of explicitness and explicitation, as it is commonly assumed in the field of translatology, explicitness is a universal component which occurs in translation and interpretation as a necessary tool of language mediation. The term explicitness is generally applied to describe the phenomena in translation when the information underlying the message (implicit information) is verbalized in a language. Some theorists classify it as a translation and interpretation strategy (Chesterman, 1997). Mona Baker lists explicitness as a potential universal (Baker, 1996), the concept which is confronted by other linguists (Baumgarten et al, 2008). In this study, explicitness in the target text is regarded as a result of explicitation. The term explicitation is understood as the process which leads to a higher extent of explicitness in the translated text (Baumgarten et al, 2008). The present research analyses the cases of the use of explicitation as a strategy. The magazine headlines are examined according to the parameters of addition, alteration and subtraction of information. The given criteria of the analysis of explicitation were identified by Nida (Nida, 1964). The study is a qualitative comparative analysis of the selected items. The findings illustrate extensive explicitness in the target text characterized by mostly addition and transformation of the source text itemsAnglų kalbos skyriusVytauto Didžiojo universiteta