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Vol. 23:1 (2011) ► pp.62–76

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The use of deictic reference in identifying point of view in Grazia Deledda’s Canne al Vento and its translation into English

 | University of Bologna
Published online: 10 August 2011
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Point of view in narrative has been identified in literary stylistics through the use of deixis, modality, transitivity and Free Indirect Discourse. These findings have also been applied to literature in translation (Bosseaux, Charlotte. 2007. How does it feel? Point of view in translation. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). This article focuses on deictic cues in the narrative structure of Canne al Vento by Grazia Deledda in the original Italian and the English translation, following an earlier study focussing on constructing a particular point of view through mental processes of perception, the translation of which did not always reflect that point of view ( 2010. “A corpus-assisted study of parere/sembrare in Grazia Deledda’s Canne al Vento and La Madre. Constructing point of view in the Source Texts and their English translations”. John Douthwaite and Katie Wales, eds. Stylistics and Co. (unlimited)—the range, methods and applications of stylistics, Textus XXIII1, 2010, 283–302.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). Data emerging from a corpus-assisted study is examined qualitatively using a systemic-functional model in order to assess to what extent the point of view constructed by these cues in the ST is conveyed in the novel in translation.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Investigating ecco in the Source Text
  • 3.Translating point of view: ecco* in the Target Text (TT)
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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