Prijevod s komentarima s naglaskom na semantiku i kulturno specifične elemente

This diploma thesis comprises five translations with commentary. Excerpts from three books were translated from English into Croatian (Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot; On Freedom; The Great Hippotamus Hotel), and two from Croatian into English (Mali i Levijatan; Priča sa zapadne strane: Tipologija srednjebrončanodobnog keramičkog materijala s prostora zapadne Slavonije). In the commentary, many different translation aspects were discussed, and always in relation to the target reader. However, seeing as four out of the five translated sources were literary texts, special attention was paid to their aesthetic function and effect. In this thesis, both of these were attempted to be preserved by a careful semantic consideration. Furthermore, since all five texts contained many cultural references, the commentary also focused on the translation of culturally specific items, and their appropriate translation procedures. The three golden rules in all of these translations were the following: make the translated text glide naturally in the target language, keep the original function and effect of the source text in the translation, and never make choices that would obstruct the reading process in any way.