Między Oryginałem a Przekładem
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description: Między Oryginałem a Przekładem (Between Original and Translation) is an international scientific journal of Faculty of Philology at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków). It publishes research articles from all areas of Translation Studies in English, French and Polish. Following Thomson Reuters' categories, our articles are classified as: Cultural Studies, Film, Radio, Television, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Language & Linguistics, Literary Theory & Criticism. The journal is published quarterly online. At the end of the year, all issues are published in printed versions. Since 2016 (No 31) full journal content has been available online in open access. The journal does not have article processing charges, editorial charges, or printing fees.
publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka Publishing Ltd.
language: en
publication name: Między Oryginałem a Przekładem
issn: 1689-9121
items: Intersemiotic translation
items: La traduction audiovisuelle au pays des merveilles de la traduction automatique et de l’intelligence artificielle : bénédiction déguisée ou enthousiasme prématuré ?
items: Audio Describers in Mainland China
items: Les tableaux vivants pasoliniens
items: Les Faux-Monnayeurs comme transmutation de L’Art de la Fugue
items: Introduction
items: Back Matter
items: How a Misguided Objective Can Ruin an Excellent Book
items: From Matter
items: La traduction intersémiotique et la communication interculturelle : les couvertures des traductions de Prawiek i inne czasy d’Olga Tokarczuk
items: Des mots aux mondes : cartographies imaginaires en traduction
items: Relations texte-image-son dans la traduction vers le polonais des albums pour enfants d’Hervé Tullet
items: Communiquer par gestes au bout du monde : La Pérouse à Sakhaline
items: La traduction jeunesse sous contrainte : adapter le texte ou l’image ?
items: Front Matter
items: Translatorski dwugłos – współczesne uwarunkowania kolektywnego przekładu literackiego na przykładzie Kanady
items: Przekład – obiekt nostalgii?
items: Polemiczne czy prowokacyjne?
items: Niespełniona kariera tłumaczki
items: Przypadek Mieczysława Birnbauma (1889-1940) – dane encyklopedyczne (rozważania o wpływie na wybory tłumacza)i strategia translatorska
items: Tancerz i szachista w świecie słów
items: „Wielka i rzeczywista pasja życiowa”
items: Zarys biografii translatorskiej Stefana Srebrnego
items: Tropy człowieko-przekładu
items: Tłumacze własnym głosem
items: Słowo wstępne
items: Recenzja książki Agnieszki Szarkowskiej i Anny Jankowskiej pt. Introducing Audiovisual Translation, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024, 218 s.

Intersemiotic translation
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description: This paper discusses a perceived discrepancy between a widespread acceptance of Roman Jakobson’s [1957] ideas and proposals for intersemiotic translation as part of his triadic division of three types of translation, on the one hand, and what he actually wrote, on the other, including his stated aims, approach and contributions. In this paper, I argue that Jakobson aims to make a contribution within (lexical) semantics, rather than lay the foundations for translation studies or have an impact on translation practices, like James Holmes [1988] or Peter Newmark [1980], respectively. Once the discrepancy has been established, the point is to use terms like intersemiotic translation, as coherently as possible along with other related terms, such as same-language subtitling, transmedia, multimodality, audiovisual translation, and adaptation, and leaning on empirical studies of translational phenomena. An important dilemma resides in the ambiguity of the term “translation”, for example, if it is used, like Jakobson, to refer to the mutual translatability of words and signs, or if it used to refer to sociocultural, professional and textual practices, as understood by authors like Lefevere [1992]. Another necessary distinction is one of words as abstract semantic entities or the condition that they must be “performed” in context, with all the necessary paralinguistic factors.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Intersemiotic translation
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subject: multimodality
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subject: isosemiotic
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subject: translatability
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subject: discourse
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creator: Patrick Zabalbeascoa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 101
ending page: 119
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.06

La traduction audiovisuelle au pays des merveilles de la traduction automatique et de l’intelligence artificielle : bénédiction déguisée ou enthousiasme prématuré ?
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description: AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION IN THE WONDERLAND OF MACHINE TRANSLA­TION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: BLESSING IN DISGUISE OR PREMATURE ENTHUSIASM? The paper explores the effects of incorporating machine translation (MT) and artificial intelligence (AI) into the audiovisual translation process. Through a critical analysis of examples drawn from two series translated and post-edited using automatic tools, the author highlights the commercial benefits but, more importantly, the many linguistic shortcomings of “non-human” translations, especially in terms of creativity, idiomaticity, and image-text coherence. Special attention is given to the Polish lektor, a form of voice-over that remains largely resistant to automation. The article concludes that despite the promises of technology, current tools remain ill-suited for the demands of creative translation, and their use should be cautious and supervised by experienced professionals.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: audiovisual translation
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subject: machine translation
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subject: artificial intelligence
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subject: subtitling
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subject: lektor
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subject: dubbing
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creator: Aleksandra Stodolna
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 79
ending page: 100
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.05

Audio Describers in Mainland China
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description: Over the past decade, audio description (AD) practice has grown across Mainland China despite the absence of explicit legal mandates. Volunteer movements have helped expand AD services and shape the profession of audio describers. However, our understanding of this profession in this region remains limited. This paper aims to address this gap by reporting on the results of a questionnaire answered by 223 describers. The findings highlight a notable growth in the profession, characterized by a predominantly young demographic profile and a practice driven largely by volunteers. We confirm earlier research [Tor Carroggio and Casas-Tost: 2020; Liu: 2023a] on the distinct professional identity of describers in Mainland China. Many of them, trained in journalism/media studies, identify as “accessible filmmakers” rather than “audio describers.” Moreover, our study reveals differences in professional practices. Chinese describers are involved in a wide range of tasks, which contrasts with the more specialized, single-task roles typically found in the Western world.
subject: Articles
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subject: Audio describers
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subject: China
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subject: media accessibility
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subject: professional profiles
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subject: survey study
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creator: Qi Liu
creator: Huihuang Jia
creator: Ching Lin Pang
creator: Anna Jankowska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 53
ending page: 77
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.04

Les tableaux vivants pasoliniens
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description: PASOLINI’S TABLEAUX VIVANTS: THE CASE OF LA RICOTTA AND ITS LAYERS OF TRANSLATION Cette contribution interroge la notion de traduction intersémiotique, conçue dans son sens le plus large (N. Dusi), à travers le tableau vivant, genre qui comporte par sa nature un processus de traduction entre langages artistiques différents. Pour ce faire, la réflexion se focalise notamment sur le cas de La Ricotta de Pier Paolo Pasolini, en prenant en considération tant le sketch que son scénario et ses traductions françaises. Le parcours proposé vise ainsi à explorer comment l’écrivain-cinéaste traduit, réactualise et réinterprète, tant verbalement que cinématographiquement, des oeuvres choisies du Cinquecento italien, le but étant de montrer que par ce travail stratifié, Pasolini invite non seulement à réfléchir à la nature et aux limites de chaque art convoqué (peinture, littérature, cinéma) et à la traductibilité des oeuvres entre langages artistiques, mais aussi à vivre l’expérience fulgurante de leur puissance figurative.
subject: Articles
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subject: Pasolini
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subject: tableau vivant
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subject: translation
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subject: painting
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subject: cinema
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creator: Martina Della Casa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 13
ending page: 27
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.02

Les Faux-Monnayeurs comme transmutation de L’Art de la Fugue
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description: THE COUNTERFEITERS AS A TRANSMUTATION OF THE ART OF FUGUE The Counterfeiters is a unique work, conceived by André Gide as an intersemiotic transposition of the fugue form into literary language. This transmutation of The Art of Fugue into a literary mode occurs primarily at the structural level—polyphonic, architectural, and mathematical. Accordingly, the novel can be analyzed using tools typically applied to musical compositions. Gide employs numerous contrapuntal procedures and imitative techniques, constructing a counterpoint both between the voices (narrative threads) and between thematic subjects (the real world and the world of ideas; true and false moral currency). The character-instruments represent subjects and their variations across different voices and registers. Although one cannot speak of a direct equivalent in the case of an intersemiotic transposition from music to literature, the literary variant of The Art of Fugue remains deeply rooted in its musical model and may be regarded as a successful intersemiotic equivalent.
subject: Articles
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subject: intersemiotic translation
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subject: transmutation
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subject: fugue
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subject: The Counterfeiters
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subject: The Art of Fugue
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creator: Alicja Kałużny
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 29
ending page: 52
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.03

Introduction
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Julie Loison-Charles
creator: Mickaël Mariaule
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
starting page: 9
ending page: 12
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.01

Back Matter
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subject: Back Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30

How a Misguided Objective Can Ruin an Excellent Book
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description: The review of Pym’s and Hao’s book, How to Augment Language Skills: Generative AI and Machine Translation in Language Learning and Translator Training highlights its significance while also expressing disappointment. The authors aim to connect language learning and translation training; however, the book primarily focuses on encouraging L2 teachers to utilise translation technology, which raises methodological concerns. The book’s title may confuse readers expecting a wider exploration of AI’s role in both fields. However, although it discusses technological changes in translation, it fails to offer a similarly detailed analysis of language teaching and overlooks important tools specifically developed for language learning. Furthermore, Pym and Hao blur the distinctions between the competencies needed for translation and teaching, risking the alienation of L2 educators. While the book offers valuable information for translation instructors, its guidance may not translate well into broader language education contexts, particularly for those focused on communicative approach.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Language teaching
  topic: keywords
subject: translation
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subject: Artificial Intelligence
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subject: Machine Translation
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creator: Katarzyna Kruk-Junger
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.69.07

From Matter
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subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30

La traduction intersémiotique et la communication interculturelle : les couvertures des traductions de Prawiek i inne czasy d’Olga Tokarczuk
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description: INTERSEMIOTIC TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: THE COVERS OF TRANSLATIONS OF OLGA TOKARCZUK’S PRAWIEK I INNE CZASY A review of the covers of thirty translations of the novel Prawiek i inne czasy by Olga Tokarczuk reveals a great variety of illustrations as well as similarities beyond the differences. If one treats the illustration chosen for the cover as the effect of an intersemiotic translation, the multiplicity observed could testify to the diversity of interpretations of the novel, depending on the languages and cultures. The existence of similarities and regularities, for its part, could be considered as an indication of the elements of the novel which “resist” the factors of cultural appropriation. The study shows that the repetitive nature of certain illustrations can be considered as a sign of the universal character of the work.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: illustrated cover
  topic: keywords
subject: intersemiotic translation
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subject: intercultural communication
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subject: Prawiek i inne czasy and its translations
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creator: Elżbieta Skibińska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27
starting page: 89
ending page: 105
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.68.05

Des mots aux mondes : cartographies imaginaires en traduction
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description: FROM WORDS TO WORLDS: FANTASY CARTOGRAPHY AS TRANSLATION It had been a widely shared habit in works of the fantasy genre to use visual maps as a gateway into imaginary geographies. The map synthesizes and aggregates; it illustrates, shapes and replicates epic itineraries. Moreover, it helps the reader distinguish between known territories and unexplored places; it makes the desired destination visual or warns of mortal perils on the way. In other words, it enables readers to familiarize themselves with the landmarks of a fictional world while prompting them to compare, anticipate and even imagine alternative or additional narratives. This study aims to examine intersemiotic translation on two levels. Firstly, the intralinguistic processes at work when a map stems from a text (or vice versa), and secondly, how interlinguistic translational processes contribute to the visual mapping, representation, expansion, dissemination, sharing, and/or transmission of such text-worlds.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: intersemiotic translation
  topic: keywords
subject: literary maps
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subject: fantasy fiction
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subject: text-image relation
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subject: reception
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creator: Marie Perrier
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27
starting page: 69
ending page: 87
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.68.04

Relations texte-image-son dans la traduction vers le polonais des albums pour enfants d’Hervé Tullet
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description: TEXT-IMAGE-SOUND RELATIONSHIPS IN POLISH TRANSLATIONS OF HERVE TULLET’S PICTUREBOOKS Picturebooks are a multimodal space in which text, images and sound merge to create a unique reading experience. They pose a challenge not only to translators, who must preserve the essence of these complex interactions while adapting them to a new language and culture, but also to translation publishers. This case study includes my reflections from an interview with Marek Włodarski, founder of the Babaryba publishing house, which publishes Polish translations of picturebooks by French author Hervé Tullet. This is the first in a series of in-depth interviews I plan to conduct with publishers of translated picturebooks. It aims to verify whether publishers are aware of multimodal relationships and whether (and how) they take them into account in the translation publishing process. To properly prepare for the interview, I first analyzed three of Tullet’s picturebooks in the original French version and the Polish translation, using a multimodal analysis scheme based on Anna Kochanowska’s typology of relationships between word, image, and sound (2021). This method allowed me to determine how the text co-creates the message with the image and sound, and how these relationships were treated in the translations. The interview shows how important role the publisher can play in the multimodal translation process of picturebooks. Their decisions often change the complex relationships between text, image, and sound contained in the original works, which in turn affects the reception of the books by readers of the target culture.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: picturebook
  topic: keywords
subject: publisher’s role
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subject: translation studies
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subject: multimodality
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subject: children’s literature
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creator: Natalia Mikicin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27
starting page: 51
ending page: 67
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.68.03

Communiquer par gestes au bout du monde : La Pérouse à Sakhaline
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description: COMMUNICATION WITH GESTURES AT THE END OF THE WORLD: LA PÉROUSE ON SAKHALIN The article aims to comment on the few cases of interlinguistic and intersemiotic communication that took place during La Pérouse’s circumnavigation (1785-1788), as described in his logbook Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde (L.A. Milet-Mureau éd., Paris 1797, volume 3) and in its Polish translation. As one of the expedition’s aims was to describe the hydrography of the North Pacific Ocean and its cartography, the navigator wanted to know whether Sakhalin was an island and whether it was possible to round it from the western side. By questioning the natives, the members of the expedition received answers expressed in gestures that were sometimes difficult to interpret. In the Polish translation of the logbook (Podróż p. La Perouse na odkrycia nowych krajów w latach 1785- 1786-1787 i 1788, Kraków 1801-1803), to correctly render the fragments related to La Pérouse’s interviews with the natives, the translator would have had to carry out an intersemiotic translation in addition to the interlinguistic translation: read the French text, translate it mentally into images, and then describe these images in Polish. A study of the target text shows that he has not done it.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: La Pérouse
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subject: Sakhaline
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subject: intersemiotic translation
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subject: translation and voyages of discovery
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subject: communicating with gestures
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creator: Marzena Chrobak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27
starting page: 13
ending page: 26
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.68.01

La traduction jeunesse sous contrainte : adapter le texte ou l’image ?
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description: TRANSLATING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: ADAPTING THE TEXT OR ADAPTING THE IMAGE? Children’s literature is particularly fruitful when it comes to exploring the relationship between text and images. Indeed, it is a type of literature that uses images a lot because their target audience – children – is usually not able to read yet (this is the parent’s role). However, the child can see and understand an image, making them a reader, though in a different semiotic system: the visual one. Translation is interlingual when it allows to go from one language to another. It can be intersemiotic too when the illustration becomes an ally in the case of an untranslatable element in the text. This article studies two types of untranslatability in British children’s literature (namely, puns and poetry) in order to show how the visual elements have been used to serve the translation of the text. Then, it makes an analysis of some books by Enid Blyton where the illustrations have been modified, be it to correspond to some constraints in the publishing industry, or to deal with cultural references that are hardly translatable.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: children’s literature
  topic: keywords
subject: illustrations
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subject: untranslatable
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subject: puns
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subject: poetry
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creator: Julie Loison-Charles
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27
starting page: 27
ending page: 49
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.68.02

Introduction
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subject: Introduction
  topic: section
creator: Julie Loison-Charles
creator: Mickaël Mariaule
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27
starting page: 9
ending page: 11

Back Matter
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subject: Back Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27

Front Matter
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subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-06-27
publication date: 2025-06-27

Translatorski dwugłos – współczesne uwarunkowania kolektywnego przekładu literackiego na przykładzie Kanady
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description: THE TRANSLATOR’S DUAL VOICE: CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS OF COLLECTIVE LITERARY TRANSLATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF CANADA Numerous historical examples and academic studies demonstrate that, prior to the Renaissance, collective translation was a commonly practiced form of translation. In contemporary times, however, literary translation is stereotypically perceived as a solitary activity, with the translator’s approach mirroring the original author’s creative process. The purpose of this article is to discuss the phenomenon of collective translation in light of the growing interest in Indigenous literatures in Francophone Canada, observable since 2015. Following an exploration of the historical causes of the paradigm shift and an examination of the contemporary conditions of the Canadian literary polysystem, the article analyzes the phenomenon of co-translations of Indigenous literatures from English into French, produced between 2014 and 2024.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: co-translation
  topic: keywords
subject: collaborative translation
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subject: literary translation
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subject: translation of Indigenous literatures
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subject: Indigenous literatures in Canada
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creator: Małgorzata Czubińska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Małgorzata Czubińska http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 205
ending page: 223
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.10

Przekład – obiekt nostalgii?
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description: TRANSLATION – OBJECT OF NOSTALGIA? REACTIONS OF ADULT READERS TO POLEMICAL TRANSLATIONS OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE The article discusses paratexts of selected polemical translations of children’s literature classics (Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, translated as Anne z Zielonych Szczytów by A. Bańkowska; A Pál utcai fiúk by F. Molnàr, translated as Chłopcy z ulicy Pawła by M. Waligórski; Kinder- und Hausmärchen (first edition) by W. and J. Grimm, translated as Żyli długo i szczęśliwie, póki nie pomarli. Nieznane baśnie braci Grimm by Eliza Pieciul-Karmińska) and reactions of adult readers to those translations, reflected in comments and opinions on the portal LubimyCzytać. Nostalgia, understood as longing for the past and “ancientness” considered to be a guarantee of authenticity, is an important category common to translators and writers: while translators promise a return to the original text and context of the literary work they translate, readers are interested in a return to their own childhood, aided or hampered by the new version of the book they know. The article describes several attitudes present among commenters, such as emotional attachment to classical translations serving as a foundation for readers’ identities and ideological stances, defence of the canon seen as an essential component of a cultural community, and willingness to engage in conscious and analytical criticism of translation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: translation of children’s literature
  topic: keywords
subject: reception of translations
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subject: polemical translation
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subject: nostalgia
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subject: children’s literature canon
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creator: Barbara Kaczyńska-Dudek
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Barbara Kaczyńska-Dudek http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 163
ending page: 186
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.08

Polemiczne czy prowokacyjne?
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description: POLEMICAL OR PROVOCATIVE? ON THE ROLE OF PERITEXT IN INCREASING THE VISIBILITY OF TRANSLATORS AND TRANSLATION IN RECENT POLISH RETRANSLATIONS OF THE CLASSICS FOR YOUNG READERS This paper surveys some new phenomena recently witnessed in the practice of retranslating widely known books from the canon of literature for young readers in Poland, interpreting them as possible signals of changes beginning in the subsystem of literature for the young, which within the polysystem theory of translation is considered to be rather conservative and attached to existing models, and also as signals of the increasing visibility of translators, their work and the very phenomenon of translation. The discussion concerns cases of recent retranslations that change traditional titles of children’s classics, widely recognizable on the Polish publishing market due to numerous previous editions and/or retranslations, the increased visibility of the very fact of retranslation due to translators’ and editors’ usage of peritexts, and the increased visibility of translators’ work in peritexts.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: translator’s visibility
  topic: keywords
subject: retranslation
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subject: literary titles
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subject: polemical translation
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subject: peritext
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subject: children’s classics
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creator: Izabela Szymańska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Izabela Szymańska http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 187
ending page: 203
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.09

Niespełniona kariera tłumaczki
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description: AN UNFULFILLED TRANSLATOR: WHO WAS HELEN STANKIEWICZ ZAND? The article describes the story of Helen Stankiewicz Zand’s translation endeavours dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. It is not merely another contribution to the body of existing translator biographies. This article also aims to show that the absence of text – be it a text that was intended but never written or a text that was indeed completed but never published – can shed light on the dynamics of the literary translation field that Zand co-created as an emerging translator and a staunch advocate of the Polish culture in the United States. Each of the three reconstructions of her translation projects outlined in this article may be illuminating in determining what might have mitigated against the successful publication of her translations of Polish prose fiction.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Translator Studies
  topic: keywords
subject: sociology of translation
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subject: Helen Stankiewicz Zand
  topic: keywords
subject: Stefan Zeromski
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subject: Jozef Wittlin
  topic: keywords
subject: Maria Dabrowska
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creator: Wanda Józwikowska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Wanda Józwikowska http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 137
ending page: 162
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.07

Przypadek Mieczysława Birnbauma (1889-1940) – dane encyklopedyczne (rozważania o wpływie na wybory tłumacza)i strategia translatorska
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description: THE CASE OF MIECZYSLAW BIRNBAUM (1889-1940) – ENCYCLOPAEDIC DATA, SPECULATIONS AND TRANSLATION STRATEGY The article revisits one of today’s forgotten translators, Mieczysław Birnbaum (pseudonym Binom). Bibliographic data concerning both him and his close relatives, which are not always certain, are examined. The potential influence of the cultural environment in which he was raised on his translation decisions are also considered. Additionally, the translations authored by him have been brought back into focus. A practical analysis of selected examples of Birnbaum’s translations highlighted distinctive elements of his translational work, thereby identifying his approach as a strategy of approximation.
subject: Articles
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subject: translator
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subject: Mieczysław Birnbaum
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subject: Binom
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subject: translation
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subject: approximation strategy
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creator: Anna Bednarczyk
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Anna Bednarczyk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 117
ending page: 136
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.06

Tancerz i szachista w świecie słów
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description: DANCER AND CHESS PLAYER IN A WORLD OF WORDS This article is devoted to Andrzej Lewandowski, a translator from Toruń born in 1937, a doctor of mathematics, an outstanding chess player, and a lover of Italy, music, and mountains, among other things. His path to the world of translation spanned 64 years. It also focuses on one of the authors that he translated, Ivan Kozlov, a man who climbed the ranks of an official career, a lover of dancing and elegant clothes, and someone who entered the world of poetry at the age of 42. Both were, to some extent, guided onto literary paths by illness.
subject: Articles
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subject: Ivan Kozlov
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subject: Andrzej Lewandowski
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subject: translator
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subject: poetry
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subject: blindness
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subject: phenomenal memory
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creator: Monika Krajewska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Monika Krajewska http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 95
ending page: 115
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.05

„Wielka i rzeczywista pasja życiowa”
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description: “A GREAT AND REAL LIFE PASSION”: BARBARA SIEROSZEWSKA’S LIFE AND WORK Barbara Sieroszewska (1904-1989), regarded alongside Zofia Jachimecka and Zofia Ernstowa, as one of the most significant post-war translators of Italian literature, made a substantial contribution to the development of the Polish canon of Italian literature. In recognition of her work as a translator and her efforts to promote Italian culture, she was honoured with numerous awards and distinctions, including the Silver Medal of the Italian Government. This publication, based on interviews with the translator’s daughter, Barbara Sieroszewska-Borowska, as well as on archival material from the University of Warsaw Archives and the Polish Writers’ Donation Library, in addition to Sieroszewska’s personal, previously unpublished notes, constitutes the first attempt to examine her life and translation work, also taking into account the historical and political contexts in which she lived and worked.
subject: Articles
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subject: Barbara Sieroszewska
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subject: translator biography
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subject: literary translation
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subject: women translators
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subject: Italian literature
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subject: archives
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creator: Ewa Nicewicz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ewa Nicewicz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 71
ending page: 93
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.04

Zarys biografii translatorskiej Stefana Srebrnego
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description: STEFAN SREBRNY: AN OUTLINE OF A TRANSLATOR’S BIOGRAPHY Since the cultural turn in translation studies the research on translator studies has become increasingly intensive. Such research reinvests a translator with his/her subjectivity. The archive turn, in its part, made scholars aware of how important the translators’ archives are; that they bring to light the practices of translators and prove to what degree translators are dependent on various issues, involved in many activities, and how complicated and multilayered their work is. Research of this kind often makes possible the reconstruction of unknown translators’ biographies. The case of Stefan Srebrny (1890-1962) is somewhat different. He was one of the most important, well-known and recognized classicists of 20th-century Poland. In spite of his renown, his biography has not been produced. The Old Prints and Manuscripts Collection in the Main Library of Nicolaus Copernicus University holds a set of manuscripts and documents by Stefan Srebrny which is a good starting point to reconstruct his translator biography. The aim of this article is to draw an outline of this biography.
subject: Articles
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subject: Stefan Srebrny
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subject: translator
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subject: classicist
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subject: translator biography
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subject: archive
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creator: Barbara Bibik
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Barbara Bibik http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 57
ending page: 70
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.03

Tropy człowieko-przekładu
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description: TROPES OF HUMAN-TRANSLATION Since the early 1960s, questions about the specificity of human translation and the individuality of the homo sapiens translator have been addressed in cybernetic translation studies. These questions have gained new relevance in the era of technological and transcreative turns in the discipline. Currently, human translation is opposed to machine translation and interspecies eco-translation, as Michael Cronin advocates. The human translator is a key concept in Anthony Pym’s “humanizing translation history” project and Andrew Chesterman’s sociological “translator studies”. Nevertheless, the response to the inquiry regarding the specificity of human translation can be sought not solely in the manifestos of eco-translation studies, “Translator Studies”, humanizing translation historiography, and the translation studies discourse focused on the language industry, machine translation, post-editing, and translation training programs. Poetry also brings an unexpected answer. The article is an attempt to analyze and interpret Gennady Aygi’s poem “Cheloveko-perevody” (1967) in the Polish translation by Adam Pomorski, “Człowieko-przekłady” (1995).
subject: Articles
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subject: human translation
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subject: machine translation
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subject: translator’s creative subjectivity
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subject: Gennady Aygi
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subject: Adam Pomorski
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creator: Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 11
ending page: 36
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.01

Tłumacze własnym głosem
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description: TRANSLATORS’ VOICES This section presents three short texts by outstanding contemporary Polish translators. Jolanta Kozak returns to some tenets of her 2009 monograph on literary translation as metaphor so as to restate the importance of loyalty toward the author and of trusting in the source text as a repository of meanings. Krzysztof Bartnicki, taking a peculiar text-bound challenge as a starting point, ponders on various, also extratextual, constraints which govern a translator’s work. René Koelblen reflects on the advantages of translating in a tandem, drawing on his experience of collaboration with Stanisław Waszak, including their rendition of Perec’s lipogrammatic novel.
subject: Articles
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subject: literary translation
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subject: collaboration between translators
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subject: translation editing
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subject: translation errors
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subject: text
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subject: translation
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subject: translator
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subject: author’s intention
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subject: ‘functional fidelity
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subject: ‘stellar text’
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subject: teleological dominant
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subject: communication
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subject: crossover translation
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subject: constraint
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subject: language privilege
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creator: Jolanta Kozak
creator: Krzysztof Bartnicki
creator: René Koelblen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 37
ending page: 56
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.02

Słowo wstępne
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subject: Introduction
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creator: Marta Kaźmierczak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 9
ending page: 10

Back Matter
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subject: Back Matter
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rights: Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10

Recenzja książki Agnieszki Szarkowskiej i Anny Jankowskiej pt. Introducing Audiovisual Translation, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024, 218 s.
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Małgorzata Tryuk
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Małgorzata Tryuk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 225
ending page: 233
doi: 10.12797/MOaP.31.2025.67.11