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- Title
Naredbe na brodu nekad i danas: engleske i hrvatske.
- Authors
Dragojević, Lia
- Abstract
Lyons (1994) connects meaning and communication and asserts that the meaning cannot be theoretically clarified without its reliance on the language in use. Commands are expressions which impose, propose course of action or pattern of behaviour and indicate that it should be carried out. The feature of a good command is that it is short and completely understandable to anyone to whom it refers. In addition, it should be monosemic and precise. Comprehension and completion of orders is very important in maritime industry. There have been contrastively analysed 57 exclamatory sentences (commands) aboard vessel from the corpus of American popular 19th century novel (Dragojević, 2007). Namely, in novel Moby Dick (author Herman Melville), the commands of that time in English and their equivalents in Croatian (translators Z. Gorjan and J. Tabak, 1985) have been compared. The orders have been classified into various semantic groups. Literary translations deal with the spirit of both languages (English and Croatian) and their translations might be used in comprative linguistic stylistics. Thus, the stylistic features in the source language which cannot be rendered in the text of target language are evident, because they best reveal the proper peculiarities of a language (Bonačić, 1999). Technological advancement in seafaring is evident in the language of orders. At the time of sailing vessels, the Master had to order to his lower officers which rope had to be tightened or loosened. (Stolac, 1998) The errors might have led to a disaster. Today, IMO prescribes standard steering and engine orders. This paper gives the comparison of Moby Dick novel orders and those ones in use today, both in English (source language) and Croatian (target language).
- Publication
Nase More, 2016, Vol 63, p79
- ISSN
0469-6255
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17818/NM/2016/2.12