Children’s literature and translation

Cecilia Alvstad
University of Oslo
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“Translation of Children’s Literature” is the dominant label for this area of study that some scholars prefer to label “Translation for Children” or “Translating for Children” since such labels emphasize that children are intended readers, not a textual trait. Translation of children’s literature is characterized by a series of traits. Among these, the most commonly treated by scholars in the field are: (1) cultural context adaptation, (2) ideological manipulation, (3) dual readership (the targeted audience includes both children and adults), (4) features of orality, and (5) the relationship between text and image.

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Alvstad, Cecilia
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Further reading

Lathey, Gillian
(ed.) 2006 The Translation of Children’s Literature. A Reader. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.  BoPGoogle Scholar
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(ed.) 2003  Traduction pour les enfants/Translation for Children . Special issue of Meta 48 (1–2).. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
O’Sullivan, Emer
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Van Coillie, Jan & Verschueren, Walter P
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