Position shifts in Spanish translations of Charles Darwin’s on the Origin of species by natural selection

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dc.contributor.author	Cook, Samantha
dc.date	2015-12-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25338
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject	Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species -- Traduccions al castellà
dc.title	Position shifts in Spanish translations of Charles Darwin’s on the Origin of species by natural selection
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dc.description.abstract	Treball d'investigació/Fi de màster
dc.description.abstract	Tutor: Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terrán
dc.description.abstract	Previous studies (Brisset, 2002; Vandepitte et al., 2011) have compared the amount of certainty expressed in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species with that expressed in translations of the work. This thesis adds Spanish translations to this line of investigation, analyzing the 1877 translation by God´ınez and the 1921 translation by Zulueta of On the Origin of Species. Focusing on the translation of utterances that contain certain modal expressions, I find that the translation by God´ınez (1877) exhibits significantly more certainty than the source text, whereas that of Zulueta (1921) shows no such shift.