Transfer of meaning in tourist brochure translations

• Main Author: Luonua, M.-M. (Matti-Mikael)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oulu 2013
• Subjects: English Philology; Muonio; Pello; Tornio; Lapland
• Online Access: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201303191112

The topic of this thesis concerns the translation of tourist brochures and how the message of the original text, along with the intended perlocution, are transferred to the translated text. The thesis mainly looks at translations from Finnish to English. There are two exceptions, where translations...