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Janssen, Chelsea (2023)

Rendering Register in Children's Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Register in the English and Dutch Translations of Cornelia Funke’s Tintenherz

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

This thesis examines the translation approach towards the rendering of register in the German children’s novel: Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke (2003) and its translations into Dutch, Hart van Inkt translated by Hanneke Beneden and Ab Bertholet, and into English, Inkheart translated by Anthea Bell. A register analysis was carried out on the three novels in two phases: a situational-context analysis and an analysis of the lexicogrammatical realizations of field, tenor and mode. This analysis found that in the Dutch translation the rendering of register was predominantly source-oriented. It furthermore found that the English target text applied more target-oriented renditions of register than the Dutch target text did. However, the overall approach of the English target text was also source-oriented. Thus, this thesis showed that the rendering of register in the Dutch and English translations of Tintenherz was predominantly source-oriented.

children's literature

translation

register

Cornelia Funke

Inkheart

Tintenherz

Hart van Inkt

Orientation

Author

Janssen, Chelsea

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Translation

Supervisors

Zeven, K.L.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en