title: Incorrect translation of proper names in covert translations by unqualified translators
abstract: Translations are not only carried out by qualified translators (e.g. unofficial subtitling, news translated by journalists or bloggers). The lack of knowledge of translation studies and onomastics may easily lead to incorrect translations of proper names. The paper proposes a qualitative approach to examine the most characteristic types of errors appearing in covert translation into Hungarian: in news texts that are not obviously translations. Incorrectly translated names in these text types may
journal: Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming"