Publications

Publication details [#46760]

Tecza, Zygmunt. 1997. Das Wortspiel in der Übersetzung. Stanislaw Lems Spiele mit dem Wort als Gegenstand interlingualen Transfers. [Translation and Wordplay. Rendering Stanislaw Lem's wordplay in interlingual transfer.] (Linguistische Arbeiten 367). De Gruyter. IX+235 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

interlanguage | language transfer | pun | translation

Language as a subject

English | French | German | Polish

Annotation

Based on a corpus of examples, drawn from 8 original works by Stanislaw Lem and their German translations, this book examines wordplay, its linguistic characteristics and various manifestations and the extent to which it can be translated.