Challenges in Translating Culturally Specific Items from a Less Dominant Culture

This thesis comprises five annotated translations, accompanied by a discussion. Excerpts from two books and one document were translated from English into Croatian, while one novel and an article were translated from Croatian into English. Source texts in English were taken from Avrum Stroll’s Did My Genes Make Me Do It?(And Other Philosophical Dilemmas), Rick Hanson’s Hardwiring Happiness: How to Reshape Your Brain and Your Life, and Mass Casualty Incidents, A Framework for Planning (Scotland). The source texts in Croatian were Tanja Radović’s novel Pitanje Nade and Dejan Kršić’s article Vrijeme je za neke nove priče. The discussion focused on challenges translators face when translating culture-specific items from a less dominant culture, i.e. Croatian into a more dominant culture, i.e. Anglo-American, and the implications this entails. The focus was on Retention and Substitution as the two main strategies that can be used to render CSIs. Examples used in the discussion were taken from Tanja Radović’s novel Pitanje Nade.Ovaj se diplomski rad sastoji od pet prijevoda i rasprave. Tri su teksta prevedena s engleskog jezika na hrvatski, dok su dva teksta prevedena s hrvatskoga na engleski jezik. Izvorni tekstovi na engleskome jeziku isječci su iz djela Did My Genes Make Me Do It? (And Other Philosophical Dilemmas) autora Avruma Strolla, Hardwiring Happiness: How to Reshape Your Brain and Your Life autora Ricka Hansona te dokumenta Mass Casualty Incidents, A Framework for Planning (Scotland). Izvorni tekstovi na hrvatskome jeziku isječak su iz romana Pitanje Nade autorice Tanje Radović te dio članka Dejana Kršića pod naslovom Vrijeme je za neke druge priče. Tema su rasprave izazovi pri prevođenju kulturološki specifičnih elemenata iz manje dominante kulture u dominantniju kulturu, kao i posljedice koje takvi prijevodi uključuju. Dva su glavna postupka za prevođenje elemenata retencija (zadržavanje) i supstitucija (zamjenjivanje). Primjeri su preuzeti iz isječka romana Pitanje Nade, autorice Tanje Radović