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Vol. 23:1 (2011) ► pp.62–76

The use of deictic reference in identifying point of view in Grazia Deledda’s Canne al Vento and its translation into English

| University of Bologna

Point of view in narrative has been identified in literary stylistics through the use of deixis, modality, transitivity and Free Indirect Discourse. These findings have also been applied to literature in translation (Bosseaux 2007). This article focuses on deictic cues in the narrative structure of Canne al Vento by Grazia Deledda in the original Italian and the English translation, following an earlier study focussing on constructing a particular point of view through mental processes of perception, the translation of which did not always reflect that point of view (Johnson 2010). Data emerging from a corpus-assisted study is examined qualitatively using a systemic-functional model in order to assess to what extent the point of view constructed by these cues in the ST is conveyed in the novel in translation.

Keywords: point of view in narrative, deixis, translation equivalence, SFL
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Investigating ecco in the Source Text
  • 3.Translating point of view: ecco* in the Target Text (TT)
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 10 August 2011
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https://doi.org/10.1075/target.23.1.04joh
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