A study on the cultural variations in the verbalisation of near-universal emotions : translating emotions from British English into Greek in popular bestseller romances
Over the last two decades, Translation Studies has become increasingly interdisciplinary. In line with this trend, the present study combines Translation Studies with the cultural psychology of emotions and the study of popular romance in order to explore how cultural norms affect translation in a specific context. The focus of the study is the translation of near-universal emotions rendered from British English into modem Greek in bestseller popular romances during the period 2000-2009. The study, therefore, brings a novel perspective to an under-researched topic of translation studies, namely the translation of emotions. Employing Even-Zoharâs Polysystem Theory and Touryâs theory of translation norms as its theoretical framework, the study first identifies the most widely accepted set of near-universal emotions, namely anger, fear, happiness and sadness, before outlining the choice of literary texts that constitute the locus of the research. Building on the concept of bestsellers as cultural artifacts, the study takes as its primary data the most popular (sub)genre in the Greek book market, that is, popular romance. The method of the study is, consequently, corpus-based, featuring a parallel and a bilingual
Lamprinou, Artemis
A study on the cultural variations in the verbalisation of near-universal emotions : translating emotions from British English into Greek in popular bestseller romances. Over the last two decades, Translation Studies has become increasingly interdisciplinary. In line with this trend, the present study combines Translation Studies with the cultural psychology of emotions and the study of popular romance in order to explore how cultural norms affect translation in a specific context. The focus of the study is the translation of near-universal emotions rendered from British English into modem Greek in bestseller popular romances during the period 2000-2009. The study, therefore, brings a novel perspective to an under-researched topic of translation studies, namely the translation of emotions. Employing Even-Zoharâs Polysystem Theory and Touryâs theory of translation norms as its theoretical framework, the study first identifies the most widely accepted set of near-universal emotions, namely anger, fear, happiness and sadness, before outlining the choice of literary texts that constitute the locus of the research. Building on the concept of bestsellers as cultural artifacts, the study takes as its primary data the most popular (sub)genre in the Greek book market, that is, popular romance. The method of the study is, consequently, corpus-based, featuring a parallel and a bilingual
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