Alena Kačmárová
Biographic Data
| ID | 8974613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alena Kačmárová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alena |
| FAMILY NAME | Kačmárová |
| SIGNATURE | KAČMÁROVÁ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Prešov |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5524-4569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Stylistic redundancy in research papers
We conducted research to identify structures that might be problematic in translation due to their being considered redundant if they were translated. These structures were studied in 30 randomly collected papers by Slovak scholars in the humanities field. The research aims to define the notion of stylistic redundancy in academic English, propose its notional paradigm and in doing so argue for its inclusion in translation issues. Based on the fin…
The encounter of two cultural identities
In contact with foreign environment, the encounter of two (or more) cultures is common in situations with an incompatible cultural aspect. A typical example is T-V distinction. In most languages, mainly European ones, conveying social deixis oscillates between two poles: T and V forms. Present-day English is the only mainstream language with the absence of morphological markers for conveying T/V relationships. The present research examines the co…
Is There Anything Like a Universal Typology of Translation Solutions for Culture-Specific Items
Rendering culture-specific items (CSI) into another language has always been a challenge for translators for obvious reasons: CSIs are context-dependent text elements carrying a connotative meaning in the source culture. For the same reason, several typologies are available, like Newmark's typology has been generally accepted by experts in translation studies and translation pedagogy. Tomaszkiewiczs (1993) eight strategies are based on exploring …
Exploring Film Dialogue Discourse
The paper falls in the area of discourse analysis and presents an initial framework for research into the nature of audio-visual text, namely the discourse of fi lm dialogue. This preliminary exploration should serve the purpose of fi nding areas worth further examination. The corpus to be studied is an episode from Friends (2002/2003). The utilized method is a SWOT analysis (an analysis in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threa…
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Exploring Film Dialogue Discourse
The paper falls in the area of discourse analysis and presents an initial framework for research into the nature of audio-visual text, namely the discourse of fi lm dialogue. This preliminary exploration should serve the purpose of fi nding areas worth further examination. The corpus to be studied is an episode from Friends (2002/2003). The utilized method is a SWOT analysis (an analysis in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threa…
Is There Anything Like a Universal Typology of Translation Solutions for Culture-Specific Items
Rendering culture-specific items (CSI) into another language has always been a challenge for translators for obvious reasons: CSIs are context-dependent text elements carrying a connotative meaning in the source culture. For the same reason, several typologies are available, like Newmark's typology has been generally accepted by experts in translation studies and translation pedagogy. Tomaszkiewiczs (1993) eight strategies are based on exploring …
The encounter of two cultural identities
In contact with foreign environment, the encounter of two (or more) cultures is common in situations with an incompatible cultural aspect. A typical example is T-V distinction. In most languages, mainly European ones, conveying social deixis oscillates between two poles: T and V forms. Present-day English is the only mainstream language with the absence of morphological markers for conveying T/V relationships. The present research examines the co…
Stylistic redundancy in research papers
We conducted research to identify structures that might be problematic in translation due to their being considered redundant if they were translated. These structures were studied in 30 randomly collected papers by Slovak scholars in the humanities field. The research aims to define the notion of stylistic redundancy in academic English, propose its notional paradigm and in doing so argue for its inclusion in translation issues. Based on the fin…
Linguistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media (2 works)