English Translations of Korczak's Children's Fiction - A Linguistic Perspective

This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children's literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish children's writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland. The author outlines fourteen tendencies in translated children's literature, including mitigation, simplification, stylization, hyperbolization, cultural assimilation and fairytalization, in order to analyse various translations of King Matt the First, Big Business Billy and Kaytek the Wizard. The author then addresses the translators' treatment of racial issues based on the socio-cultural context. The book will be of use to students and researchers in the field of translation studies, and researchers interested in children's literature or Janusz Korczak. 

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Language of Translated Children's Fiction: Key Issues.- Chapter 3: Sketching the Context: English Translations of Polish Children's Literature.- Chapter 4: Cultural Assimilation, Foreignization, Fairytalization and Hyperbolization.- Chapter 5: Mitigation, Standardization, Simplification and Explicitation.- Chapter 6: Style and Sociolect: A Corpus-Based Study.- Chapter 7: Formal Literary Style and Modern American Idiom.- Chapter 8: On Cannibals and Savages: Translators' Treatment of Racial Issues.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

About the author

Michal Borodo is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Linguistics at the Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland, where he is also the Head of Postgraduate Studies in Translation and Interpreting.

Product details

• Authors: Micha¿ Borodo, Michal Borodo
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2020
• EAN: 9783030381165
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3038116-5
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 21 mm x 214 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 247 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, allgemein, Polish; Children'sLiterature; LiteraryTranslation; culturalassimilation; Mitigation; censorship; didacticism; Infantilization; JanuszKorczak; KingMatttheFirst; BigBusinessBilly; KaytektheWizard; fairytalization; youngeraudiences; Englishtranslation