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A Linguistic Theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics. Behind The Name: The etymology and history of first names. Yana Manova-Georgieva, South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Blagoevgrad, Bulgariaīritannica, T. Etymology and semantic interpretations are to be sought for as well as morphological and syntactic structure of names in both languages of interest in favour of the hypothesis that literary names carry meaning which, when revealed, gives a more concrete idea of a personage in a novel. Therefore, the current paper aims at analysing literary names in Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel “ Wyrd Sisters” with focus on their rendering into Bulgarian. When rendered from one language into another, names undergo various structural alterations, semantic modulations, or even syntactic reconstructions. As far as fantasy is concerned, the choice of literary names is freer, but still requires more creativity, given the fact that fantasy names can be translated. Thus, literary names serve as a handy tool in any piece of writing, since they complete their bearers in a discrete, yet a vivid way when given an appropriate name by the author of a piece of writing.

Name crafting has been and still is of importance when devising a literary character with certain traits and features that are meant to outstand a character’s personality. Literary onomastics, charactonyms, interpretation, fantasy, translation Abstract South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

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