Експликация и импликация на категорията „умалителност” при превод на имена от български на английски език

Abstract

The paper investigates the use of explicitation and implicitation strategies in the translation of diminutive nouns from Bulgarian literary texts into English. The study features a corpus of original Bulgarian prose by ten contemporary authors. Several approaches to the rendering of the category of diminutiveness are highlighted: the employment of diminutive suffixes, the addition of adjectives with diminutive meaning, the recourse to various compensatory techniques, and the omission of explicit markers for the category.