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Zeitschrift fur Katalanistik

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0932-2221
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LITERATURE, ROMANCE
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Ieisme en els grups consonàntics cultes PL, CL, GL, BL i FL en el català a l'Aragó: una aproximació a la variació (socio)fonètica

2025-08-15

Katia Benaiges-Saura, M. Teresa Moret-Oliver

This article analyses an ongoing linguistic change related to the vitality of the palatalisation of the alveolar lateral consonant originating in the Latin groups PL-, BL-, CL-, FL- and GL- in the Franja d’Aragó. This is one of the most singular features of the Ribagorzano and Leridano dialects of north-western Catalonia, shared with the Ribagorzano dialect of Aragonese. In this study, fifty communicative situations have been created to obtain contexts containing occurrences of these consonant clusters. A total of ninety realisations of the consonant have been examined using PRAAT (Boers­ma / Weenink, 2021). The results show the minoritarian presence of the pala­toalveolar lateral in comparison with the approximant and the alveolar. This is an indi­cator that this feature is in a passive phase and can be considered a step prior to its dis­appearance.

Estratègies de traducció d'esdeveniments de moviment adlatius amb encreuament de límits

2025-08-15

Amador García Tercero, Alejandro González Villar

This article analyzes the translation strategies for adlative motion events with boundary crossing, focusing on the manner and path in satellite-framed (S) and verb-framed (V) languages. Building on Leonard Talmy’s lexicalization theory and Slobin’s ‘thinking-for-translating’ framework, the study examines the translations of the novel The Hunger Games from English (S-language) into German (S-language), Spanish, and Catalan (V-languages). The analysis highlights how the typological differences of each language affect the representation of these events, revealing significant variations in the strategies employed by translators. The findings offer deeper insights into the relationship between linguistic typology and the translation of motion events, empha­sizing the cognitive-linguistic implications for translators.

Das Bad, de Yoko Tawada: la traducció d'una identitat nòmada

2025-08-15

Pol Garriga Martínez

This article analyses the translation into English, German and Spanish of Tawada’s Das Bad (1989), originally written in Japanese, but first published in German. For this purpose, a number of extracts are selected, characterised by the translation prob­lems they pose. These are classified into three categories: metalinguistic translation prob­lems in a single language, problems caused by the contact between Japanese and German in the original text, and problems arising from the Japanese protagonist’s learning of German. For the analysis of these fragments, a study of Tawada’s ideary is made, in which concepts such as identity, physical appearance and skin, and death stand out. The result is a reflection on the topics of Yoko Tawada’s story and on the solutions that the various translations have proposed. The conclusions are that the author’s abstract and complex ideary and reflections, together with the fact that there are two languages in contact in the original text, are factors that lead to a number of linguistic translation problems that are specific to this text.

«Chapurriau como lo han llamado siempre». Origen del glotònim xapurriau a la Franja (primera meitat del s. XX)

2025-08-15

Natxo Sorolla

“Chapurrear” is defined as “to speak a language with difficulty and make mistakes” (RAE, 2023). This article examines the historical use of the term Chapurriau to refer to the language spoken within the Catalan-speaking region of Aragon (the Franja). It systematically examines its earliest recorded appearances in written public discourse and finds no evidence that Chapurriau appeared in written form before the 20th century. This absence contrasts with historical references to the language as Catalan or Limousin . The article suggests that debates over glottonyms, or clearly associated with the idea of linguistic mixture, are closely linked to its historical loss of functions and can thus be understood as symptoms of its decline.

Paraules hin und her. Traducció del pseudoalemany en Mortadelo y Filemón

2025-08-15

Elena Sánchez-López, María José Mompeán-Mejías

The Spanish comics of Mortadelo y Filemón have travelled around the world, not only thanks to their adventures but also thanks to their translations. In this paper, we will analyse a fictional language with Germanised features that appear in the volume El sulfato atómico : the language of Tirania, as well as its translation into German and Cat­alan. To account for this phenomenon, we will first briefly reflect on the external fac­tors for translating comics. We will then discuss the relationship between language and cultural references, known as realia, and their transfer to fictional worlds, irrealia . Fol­lowing this theoretical basis, we will analyse the pseudo-German language and culture found in El sulfato atómico , both in the original and in its two translations. We will also include a section analysing the discursive creations that were made in the German translation to compensate those humorous features that could not be conveyed with more direct resources. From this analysis, we will draw some general guidelines for the translation of fictional languages.

Ofèlia Dracs i la recepció d'H.P. Lovecraft a la literatura catalana

2025-08-15

Mario Garvin

The book of short stories Lovecraft, Lovecraft! (1981) by the Catalan collective Ofèlia Dracs has been harshly judged by critics for failing to reach the tone and level of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. This paper suggests that such judgments have been made on the basis of two false postulates. First, it has been interpreted that the purpose of this volume was to pay homage to Lovecraft, when in fact, as defended here, the purpose was to write horror stories, a genre that is hardly cultivated in Catalan literature and that the Ofèlia Dracs collective intends to promote. Secondly, these stories have been evalu­ated as if they had been written by a single author, when in fact they are the work of ten individual authors. A specific analysis of each of the stories shows the ways in which each of the authors tried to contribute to this collective purpose, concluding that the volume deserves a place in the history of the horror genre in Catalan literature.

Registre i im/personalització en la representació de les relacions interpersonals: la traducció alemany-català/espanyol de Der Passfälscher

2025-08-15

Pau Bertomeu Pi

The representation of interpersonal relationships in fiction is a challenge for the author of the film script and for the audiovisual translator due to the difficulty of translating pragmatic values in a very restricted environment. In this sense, the aim of this article is to analyze how interpersonal relationships are depicted in Der Passfälscher (2022) through register and im/personalization, and how these representations are translated into Catalan and Spanish. To this end, the scenes have been counted, select­ing those with socially symmetrical interpersonal constellations and examining them from a qualitative and contrastive approach. The analysis of the data reveals differences based on the target language and the social role of the participants in the interaction. While Catalan manages to maintain the characterizations activated in German to a greater extent, Spanish reflects interpersonal relations more distant from the original text.

Ucraïna, mon amour de Carles Torner o la (auto)traducció com un acte d'amor

2025-08-15

Esther Gimeno Ugalde

This article aims to analyze Ucraïna, mon amour (Torner, 2023), a novel fea­turing the Catalan translator of I. B. Singer as a paradigmatic example of the so-called «transfiction». Singer’s presence, also portrayed as a character within the fiction, allows for a profound reflection on the intimate link between writing and translation, concur­rently connecting the various 20th-century exiles with the current war in Ukraine. The analysis focuses on the multiple meanings and metaphors associated with translation, such as cultural bridge, journey, exile, survival, resistance, and, above all, love. Through the literary motif of translation, the intertextual dialogues with the works of the writer in Yiddish and other authors, including Carles Torner, will be explored. The article also examines different translation scenes that unfold throughout the novel.