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The aim of the present paper is to investigate strategies of translating riddles in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Taking as framework Pagis' (1996) and Senderovich's (2005) model of analysis for riddles as well as Wagner's (2020) pragma-semantic model of ambiguity, the paper redefines literary riddles as forms of conventionalized ambiguity that are strategically produced, perceived and resolved. The analysis of four target texts reveals that the main strategies employed in preserving a balance between opacity and transparency in literary riddles are equivalence, explicitation, rationalization and omission and that translation loss can be repaired through compensation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article explores the benefits that a corpus stylistic approach can provide to the study of literary translation. The focus is on identifying specific strategies in translation and in what way they interact with the constraints that characterize the translation of children's literature. The article tackles phenomena such as foregrounded language, whether it is alliteration, repetition or expressive language created through word-deformation, in a text such as Roald Dahl's dark fantasy novel The Witches and its three corresponding Romanian target texts, seeking to explore effective methods of recapturing the stylistic effect present in the source text. The data show that foregrounded language is translated mainly through equivalence, with the notable exception of alliteration, which is compensated for. Since the source text has been thrice translated into Romanian, the article also checks whether the "unretranslability hypothesis" (Sanz Gallego et al., 2023) applies with respect to foregrounded language in the present corpus. The instances of overlapping linguistic material analysed indicate that there are not enough grounds to support the hypothesis and that a possibly larger corpus and more clearly defined terminology are needed in this respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A classic such as The Hobbit has occasioned three published versions in Romanian, which raises the question of progress in retranslation. Inspired by Kruger's proposal that narratological translation shifts do occur in translation, we intend to check the validity of Antoine Berman's famous 'retranslation hypothesis'. By employing Berman's 'analytic of translation,' the present paper identifies possible deforming tendencies in translation and compares the existing versions by using this criterion. We restrict our scrutiny to authentication strategies in a crucial chapter of The Hobbit, that is those narrative devices by means of which the narrator creates a bond with his readership. Another important point checked in our paper is whether there are instances of intertextuality in retranslation, which we prove by looking at those places in the narrative where the auctorial voice is heard in the source text and at similarities in their translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from Pym's (2004) notion of translational progress in retranslation, the present paper will compare various versions of a well-known children's poem from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. One of the tools I employ in this kind of evaluative endeavour is Delabastita's (1993) slightly revised model of pun translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyses degrees of equivalence in the translation of verbally expressed humour. Contrary to the traditional belief that it is dynamic equivalence which is more effective in translating humour, the paper attempts to demonstrate that formal correspondence might be as effective in certain cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]