“Cheese Crusts” and “Sir Loin of Stag”: English on the Menu in Geneva’s Old Town

Diplôme Master “Cheese Crusts” and “Sir Loin of Stag”: English on the Menu in Geneva’s Old Town eng 2025 author Kahn Natalya Yevgenia 872381 director Thien Danielle 748496 Services communs du département de traduction (TRACO) As well as listing food items on offer, restaurant menus act as marketing texts, persuading diners to enter an establishment and spend money. Translating a menu is no simple task since the target text must achieve the same functions as the source text but for a readership with potentially vastly different preferences and expectations. This dissertation examines the case of French–English menu translations in Geneva’s Old Town, an area which attracts professional visitors and tourists from all over the world. By examining objective textual quality as well as the views of restaurant management and diners, it aims to clarify how and why menu translations are produced in this context, how good they are, whether quality matters and what translation strategies might be useful. Menus Menu translation Tourism Tourism translation Restaurants Hospitality Geneva Food language and translation Dewey 418.02 Maîtrise universitaire en traduction spécialisée 111 Département de traduction 91 false 2575cfb2-00e6-4777-bbe9-d238e170c17b Master thesis Public NKahn_finalversion_14012025.pdf 1284366 application/pdf 9fb4b63f5e77b5c695157fe45aa5c322a404673bf50c9ae79ddb0d02e0d859b4 openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traduction

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