Translation of Culture-Specific Items in The Name of the Wind

This paper looks at the translation of the culture-specific items in Patrick Rothfuss’ book The Name of the Wind (2007) in order to get an idea about how Secondary Worlds and their fictional cultures are translated in High Fantasy. The procedures employed to answer the objective of the thesis are a mix between Davies’ (2003) and Aixelá’s (1996) procedures, and Venuti’s (2008) foreignization, exotication, and domestication has been used to analyze the overall strategy. The textual analysis of the book show that the translator has used a fix of the strategies foreignization, exotication and domestication. The most used strategy is foreignization, which serves to preserve the fictional culture that belongs to the Secondary World the story is set in