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Vol. 26:1 (2014) ► pp.128–145

Translation, stylistics and To the Lighthouse

A Deictic Shift Theory analysis

| University of Udine, Italy

Scholars in Descriptive Translation Studies and other areas of translation theory have often employed ‘style’ as a term, but have rarely expanded their stylistic reflections beyond the level of impressionistic description. In the last decade, however, a small number of articles and monographs have advocated or attempted a fusion of stylistics and translation studies, into something that Kirsten Malmkjær (2004) has aptly termed “translational stylistics.” Building on this handful of contributions, the author proposes a bi-textual analysis of deictic shifts in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) and Giulia Celenza’s early Italian translation Gita al faro (1934).

Keywords: Deictic Shift Theory, Descriptive Translation Studies, English literature, Giulia Celenza, Italian literature, stylistics, translation, Virginia Woolf
Article outline
  • 1.Translating style and translational stylistics
  • 2.Mrs Ramsay’s grand dinner: the analysis
    • 2.1Source text stylistics
    • 2.2Target-text stylistics
    • 2.3Bi-textual stylistics
  • 3.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 7 March 2014
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