Masarykova univerzita Filozofická fakulta Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky Magisterská diplomová práce

1 Even though the concept of translation universals has been accepted by a large number of scholars, opinions denying the existence of features universal to translations have also been voiced, e.g. House, 2008.

2 The shortcomings of the so-called explicitation hypothesis and first definitions of explicitation in general can be found in Kamenická (2007a: 7-20), they are of little importance to the present thesis, though, and that is why this issue is not addressed in greater detail.

3 Detailed explanation of these categories can be found e.g. in Butt, 1995.

4 The examples are taken from the corpus that is to be discussed below.

5 First published by Harvard University Press in1992 (the ST of Hradilek’s translation).

6 The 1996 revised and expanded edition has been used for the purpose of the present thesis.

7 As almost no information about Antonín Hradilek can be found on the web and in libraries, the data provided by Ms. Plešková from the Lidové noviny Publishing House, the publisher of the two translations used in this thesis, were made use of.

8 The figure is based on the sample included in the corpus.

9 From now on, translation-inherent explicitation and translation-inherent implicitation will be the main focus: they will be referred to simply as explicitation and implicitation.

10 The graph can be consulted again and compared with those of other texts in Appendix 2.

11 The change of the actual distance does not harm the text much; what is desirable here is just the increase of the distance (gradation) – shouting vs. loud-speaker vs. explosion of a bomb.

12 Kamenická studied so called standard deviation, i.e. the actual deviation from the average value, too. This deviation is not of interest in the present thesis.

13 // stands for a new paragraph

14 differences between the original and the translation are marked in bold