Tanja Žigon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tanja Žigon plays a role.
2020 When the audience changes: Translating adult fiction for young readers Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:2, pp. 242–260 | Article
Much is expected to change when a work of fiction is translated from one language and culture to another, but the intended reader is not. This paper deals with the issue of the change of the intended reader from adult to child/adolescent in translations of fiction from English into Slovene. The… read more
2017 I know languages, therefore, I can translate? A comparison between the translation competence of foreign language and Interlingual Mediation students Translation and Interpreting Pedagogy in Dialogue with Other Disciplines, Colina, Sonia and Claudia V. Angelelli (eds.), pp. 83–102 | Article
There is a large presence of translators without formal education in the Slovene market, partly because until the 1990s there were no independent translation programs, but also because of the popular notion that anybody who speaks a foreign language well, or has a degree in it, can translate. In… read more
2016 Comparing national images in translations of popular fiction Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology, van Doorslaer, Luc, Peter Flynn and Joep Leerssen (eds.), pp. 145–161 | Article
This paper concentrates on the way national – and sometimes racial – images are translated in works of popular fiction. Popular fiction is a distinctive literary field, with distinctive norms and conventions, also as regards translation. We explore how these specific translation conventions… read more
2015 I know languages, therefore, I can translate? A comparison between the translation competence of foreign language and Interlingual Mediation students T&I pedagogy in dialogue with other disciplines, Colina, Sonia and Claudia V. Angelelli (eds.), pp. 87–107 | Article
There is a large presence of translators without formal education in the Slovene market, partly because until the 1990s there were no independent translation programs, but also because of the popular notion that anybody who speaks a foreign language well, or has a degree in it, can translate. In… read more