title: Ways of transmitting modal meanings in Dutch-Russian translation: The case of the modal particle maar
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metadata.value: Tereshko, Ekaterina
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vellinga, Rinske Sophia
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-08-08T19:28:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-08-08T19:28:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Tereshko E., Vellinga R. S. Ways of transmitting modal meanings in Dutch-Russian translation: The case of the modal particle maar. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 1, pp. 73–95. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.105
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43639
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metadata.value: In this study, we examine the strategies translators have at their disposal to render the
  meaning of Dutch modal particles in the Russian language. Modal particles are difficult
  to translate because the meaning of these words is abstract, highly context-dependent and
  sometimes open to multiple interpretations. Based on parallel Dutch-Russian texts we
  show which strategies translators use to express the functions of the Dutch modal particle
  maar ‘but’ in Russian. The modal particle maar is very often omitted in translations, because
  it has no equivalent in Russian and the image of reality given by the sentence does
  not become different in a translation when a modal particle is not translated. We find
  that maar is most often omitted in the function of mitigating the imperative. Translators
  compensate for the lack of an appropriate modal particle by using verbs with a narrower
  meaning in Russian which allows them to more accurately describe the drawn context.
  We also find that in some cases, translators make use of lexical and grammatical transformation
  such as using prefixes in Russian to soften the imperative, rather than omitting
  maar completely. In Russian, there are many possibilities to convey modal meaning in
  lexico-grammatical ways, for example using particles, verbs with a narrower meaning
  and prefixes that soften the imperative; modal verbs as such can take on the function of
  expressing modality, and also the verb tense can be used to convey modality.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modal particles
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dutch
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translation
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: particle maar
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ways of transmitting modal meanings in Dutch-Russian translation: The case of the modal particle maar
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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