Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1998. Vol. 2. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

Studies - Albert Vermes: Proper names in translation: a case study

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: % ANIMAL : 100 ABSTRACT: 100 TITLE: 61.3 OTHER : 42.9 PERSONAL : 73.2 SPECIES : 100 OTHER : 57.1 NATIONAL. : 22.2 GEOGRAPH. : 41.9 EVENT : 87.5 INSTITUT.

: 43.7 BRAND : 16.7 BRAND : 38.9 TEMPORAL : 85.7 BRAND : 33.3 TEMPORAL : 14.3 INSTITUT. : 18.8 NATIONAL.

: 77.8 EVENT: 12.5 INSTITUT. : 12.5 TITLE : 6.45 GEOGRAPH. : 53.8 PERSONAL: 3.1 TITLE : 6.45 NATIONAL. : 0 INSTITUTION : 25 GEOGRAPH. : 2.15 GEOGRAPH. : 2.15 EVENT

:0 TITLE : 25.8 ANIMAL : 0 PERSONAL : 4.1 TEMPORAL

:0 PERSONAL : 19.6 NATIONAL. : 0 ANIMAL : 0 OTHER

:0 BRAND : 11.1 TEMPORAL : 0 EVENT

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:0 ANIMAL : 0 ABSTRACT

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:0 SPECIES : 0 SPECIES : 0 TOTAL : 39.6 TOTAL : 36.3 TOTAL: 17.1 TOTAL

:7 Table 3. The data are presented in descending order of the percentages, taken from Table 2, under each operation. 7 Conclusions One of the interesting results of this study is the confirmation of the fact that contrary to what Vendler said, namely that proper names do not require translation into another language (Vendler 1975: 117), they often do or, in several cases, they get modified. This is not surprising in view of our assumption that proper names have basically the same semantic structure as any other kinds of expression. Of course, much depends on what we regard as a proper name. In our understanding the category includes a wide range of expressions - in fact, the difficult thing would be to tell where the list of members in the class ends. At the one end of the scale we find the most prototypical names, proper nouns, which supposedly lack any logical content but may carry several assumptions in the encyclopaedic entry. At the other extreme we have composite names made up of words from any of the lexical and grammatical word classes: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, even verbs, prepositions, articles, auxiliaries, and so on. These names, which I call phrasal names

, are no different in terms of logical content from any ordinary phrasal expression. What makes them names, eventually, is that they are used as such in the given context. It seems to me that a name is more of a pragmatic category than a semantic one. As regards the choice of the appropriate operation in dealing with a particular name, several factors may contribute to the final decision. One, of course, is the semantic contents of the name. Our hypothesis appears to be 175