STRATEGIES AND PROCEDURES IN TRANSLATING RELIGIOUS TERMINOLOGY IN THE NOVEL ČARAPE KRALJA PETRA BY MILOVAN VITEZOVIĆ FROM SERBIAN INTO ENGLISH AND FRENCH
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyse the application of strategies and
procedures in translating religious terminology from Serbian source text "Čarape kralja Petra"
by Milovan Vitezović into English and French. Drawing on a combination of Venuti’s and
Newmark’s theories, we will attempt to identify the translation strategies and procedures and
determine to what extent the translator uses domestication or foreignization, and thus creates
either a translation that can be read fluently and which does not contain the specificities of the
source text, or a translation that emphasizes cultural diversity and thus respects both the culture
and the writer of the original text. We start from the assumption that even though all three
languages belong to the Christian culture, Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox
Christianity, their respective religious terminologies differ significantly. Therefore, the
translator’s task should be to produce a translation that can be read fluently while at the same
time respecting the cultural diversity in question. Our initial assumptions that the two
translations are examples of different strategies have proven to be only partially true. The results
show the obvious prevalence of the domestication strategy in both translations, with the
exception of the non-equivalence and proper names and toponyms, which proves that the
translators actually moved away from the original text.
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