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Il condizionale italiano tra possibilità contrastive e soluzioni traduttive: osservazioni in base a quattro traduzioni slave delle “Favole al telefono” di Gianni Rodari

2023; Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15804/iw.2023.14.2.02

2450-5943

Robert Grošelj,

Italian Literature and Culture

This article analyses the functions of the Italian present and past conditional; the grammatical equivalents in Slovenian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Polish; and the equivalents in translations of Gianni Rodari’s Favole al telefono. In the case of the Italian present conditional of eventuality, the “standard” equivalents prevail in all the translations: the Slovenian present conditional; the Croatian first conditional; the Macedonian conditional and future; and the Polish potential conditional. With other translation solutions (the present tense, past tenses), the modality is frequently expressed by other linguistic—mainly lexical— means. The translation equivalent of the Italian present conditional of unconfirmed information in all translations is the present tense. The Italian past conditional of eventuality was translated in most cases by its “standard” translation equivalents: the Slovenian present conditional; the Croatian first and second conditional; the Macedonian conditional, future, future in the past, and reported future; and the Polish potential conditional. When the translators decided to depart from translation solutions temporally or modally close to the source verb form (by choosing, for example, the present tense or one of the past tenses), they frequently preserved or introduced other modal elements. The translation equivalents of the Italian past conditional of the future-in-the-past are the future or the present tense with future meaning. Slovenian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Polish translations of Gianni Rodari’s Favole al telefono include, on the one hand, different grammatical equivalents that, in the languages analysed, “ideally” correspond to the two Italian conditionals (the most specific equivalents in the languages analysed include, for example, Macedonian future tenses and the Croatian second conditional), and, on the other hand, alternative translation equivalents (the present tense; past tenses; adverbial and prepositional expressions; omissions), which indicate different stylistic preferences of the translators.