Web Translation Projects/Approaches to Translating Dialect/Relativisation

The SL dialect is reduced in this strategy to terms of address and/or honorifics. This results in all indication of the speaker's belonging to a language community being eliminated, and only the social distance between the speaker and the addressee being retained. None of the social strata is, however, explicitly identified. This allows the translator to "strike a balance between fidelity to the full range of the SL text meanings and protecting its integrity" - since no TL language group is explicitly named, the risk of introducing false intertextuality lowers.

Honorifics
This substrategy is claimed by Berezowski to introduce "rustic tinge" to the TL text - to anchor them vaguely in an unspecified rural TL community.

Terms of address
While the previous sub-strategy employed grammatical means of expressing social distance, this one uses lexical means of doing so, i.e. terms of address. Berezowski claims that a prerequisite for using this strategy is the "explicitness of its statements on the relationships prevailing between social groups which themselves remain implicit."  He also states that such explicitness in foregrounding social distance between characters is favoured in translations meant for young audiences. An example of the use of this strategy can be seen in one of the Polish translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: