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Iz pozicije ne(razumijevanja). Korejska, hrvatska i druge južnoslavenske književnosti u kontekstu „gubljenja u prijevodima“ i interkulturnih veza (From a Position of (Mis)Understanding. Korean, Croatian and South-Slavic Literature in the Context of Being “Lost in Translation” and Intercultural Connections)

This book contains eight chapters in which the problem of translation and possibility to translate some phrases and discursive practices are studied. The emphasis is on layers of meaning as they stood in original and displaced discursive environment. The central question posed is how is it possible that similar phenomena (such as evil, violence, atrocities, …

Translation of English Feature Film Titles into Croatian

This paper explores the challenges posed by English film titles and the translation strategies used to adapt them for the Croatian-speaking audience. The corpus consisted of 190 feature-length English-language film titles and their corresponding Croatian translations. They were then grouped according to the source-language challenges (puns and double meaning, character references, cultural references and idioms, …