Informal Czech and French Language in the Context of Literary Translation : Translation of Colloquialisms in the Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Abstrakt
In its theoretical part, the paper deals with typical features of spoken French and Czech as well as the distribution of these features in both languages. A description of phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic elements of substandard French and Czech is included.
The paper emphasizes differences between stratification of French and Czech that make literary translation of spoken language more diffcult. The second part of the paper is devoted to a comparative translation analysis of Guy de Maupassant's short story L'ivrogne [The Drunkard] and its two Czech translations (the one from 1902 and the one from 1965), and focuses on the way the translators express informality of Maupassant's language.
A final critical evaluation of the translations is given in the conclusion.