TRANSLATING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: SOME INSIGHTS FROM CORPUS STYLISTICS

In this article I explore the potential of a corpus stylistic approach to the study of literary translation. he study focuses on translation of children's literature with its specific constrains, and illustrates with two corpus linguistic techniques: keyword and cluster analysis-specific cases of repetition. So in a broader sense the article discusses the phenomenon of repetition in different literary (stylistic) traditions. These are illustrated by examples from two children's classics aimed at two different age groups: the Harry Potter and the Winnie the Pooh books-and their translations into Czech. Various shifts in translation, especially in the translation of children's literature, are often explained by the operation of so-called translation universals. hough repetition as such does not belong to the commonly discussed set of translation universals, the stylistic norms opposing repetition seem to be a strong explanation for the translation shifts identified.