scholarly journals Alien reality in source text and its reflection in translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 21013
Author(s):  
Georgiy Khukhuni ◽  
Svetlana Vekovishcheva ◽  
Elena Pugina ◽  
Tatyana Kholstinina

The present paper considers and analyzes one of the most controversial problems of theory and practice of literary translation. This problem is associated with the use and representation in a target text of lexical and phraseological units designating concepts or phenomena that are alien to a particular language and/or culture, within the framework of which the text is composed. Special attention is payed to the issue of the so-called foreignness of a concept for a primary and secondary audience, which stems from the difference in background knowledge of members of each audience in regard to the reality described in a book. The material for the study were fiction works of British writers of the 19th – the first half of the 20th centuries, as well as of Indian authors who either initially wrote in English or translated their own works into English, which was conditioned by the following aspects: 1. The existence of a plethora of colonies, people’s life in which attracted the attention of a significant number of English writers; 2. The diverse nature of the lexical and phraseological layer loaned from other languages; 3. The existence of author's translations into English of those pieces of writing that were initially written in languages of colonized peoples, as well as of original books initially written in English by local authors. 4. A long-term practice of translating such texts into Russian that increases the relevance of the research into means and methods applied for conveying such culture specific concepts. The paper uses methods of philological analysis of an original text and its translation, as well as methods of their comparative study. These methods allow estimating the appropriateness and equivalence of cross-lingual communication.

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
R von Hugo ◽  
R Hafter ◽  
H Graeff

The frequency of thrombosis (D.V.T.) in patients treated for gynaecological cancer by combined external irradation and intravaginal radium application, as detected by the 125 I-fibrinogen-test, is considerable (43 % D.V.T.).84 patients undergoing radiotherapy were studied in a first controlled trial to assess the effect of 2×7500 U daily s.c. calcium heparin and 2×5000 U daily s.c. of a semisynthetic heparin analogue (SSHA) on the incidence of D.V.T. during therapy. 4 patients had to be excluded. The frequence of D.V.T. was 15 % (6/40) in the heparin group and 25 % (10/40) in the SSHA group. The difference was not statistically significant.Long term application of prophylaxis (regular radiotherapy lasts 4 weeks) causes discomfort to the patient because of the numerous subcutaneous injections.lt was the aim of a second trial to investigate the prophylactic efficacy of a single s.c. injection per day.80 patients were randomly allocated into two groups and received either 12500 U calcium heparin (n=40) or 12500 U SSHA (n=40). The incidence of D.V.T. was reduced to 15 % by a single heparin injection per day; in patients given SSHA the incidence was 17,5 %.The results presented indicate that SSHA is as effective as heparin in preventing D.V.T. during radiotherapy and that a single s.c. injection per day is sufficient.


Author(s):  
Е.Б. ДЗАПАРОВА ◽  
E.B. DZAPAROVA

В статье рассматривается переводческое наследие Созырыко Бритаева, оценивается вклад переводчика в теорию и практику художественного перевода. Автором анализиру- ются переводы С. Бритаева, выявляются способы воссоздания в переводном тексте фор- мы и содержания оригинала. Анализируя рассказ Л. Н. Толстого «После бала» в оригинале и в переводе С. Бритаева, исследователь рассматривает способы отображения в пере- водном тексте основного структурообразующего элемента произведения — контраста. Установлено, что переводчику С. Бритаеву удалось воспроизвести стиль повествования, систему художественных образов оригинала, архитектонику произведения. Прослежена передача на языке перевода и образных единиц оригинала (метафор, эпитетов). Перевод- чик в основном воспроизводит данные единицы перевода в оригинальной творческой мане- ре русского писателя. Замена отдельных метафорических структур эквивалентами пе- реводящего языка позволила Бритаеву сохранить структуру тропа, но привела к утрате его эстетической функции. Перевод некоторых эпитетов требовал отхода от словарных соответствий и нахождения эквивалентов по смыслу. The article examines Sozyryko Britaev’s translation heritage, assesses the contribution of the translator to the theory and practice of literary translation. The author analyzes Britaev’s translations, identifies methods of recreating in his translated version the form and contents of the original text. The researcher considers ways of displaying contrast as a basic structure-forming element of the work in the translated text analyzing the story of L. N. Tolstoy «After the Ball» in the original and in Britaev’s translation. The study allows to conclude, that Britaev as a translator managed to reproduce the style of narration, the system of artistic images of the original, the architectonics of the work. The author traced the translation into Ossetian the original figures of speech (metaphors, epithets). On the whole the translator managed to reproduces these tropes retaining the original Russian writer’s creative manner. Replacing some individual metaphorical structures with equivalents of the language of translating allowed Britaev to preserve the structure of the tropes, but led to the loss of their aesthetic function. Translation of some epithets required a deviation from the lexical correspondences and finding semantic equivalents.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-154
Author(s):  
Shushanik Paronyan

The topic of the present paper concerns cultural translation and focuses on the cross-cultural aspect of pragmatic equivalence. It is based on the hypothesis that the pragmatic framework of the literary work, i.e.  the deliberate choice of  tied verbal actions and the interpretations of these actions, forms  an important slot in the overall structure of cultural context and displays the artistic literary idea of the writer.  Hence the research work clearly shows that literary translation should adequately transmit the intentions and ideas encoded in the original text to the readers from the respective culture. The cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of the speech act sequences and reporting words carried out on the material of a literary work in English and its Armenian translation has enabled us to determine that the violation of pragmatic coherence of the source text distorts the cultural context planned by the author.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 278-302
Author(s):  
Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero

AbstractThis paper focuses on The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) and analyses the Spanish translation by Waldo Leirós (1997, 2017) through a specific selection of quotations and fragments. It follows the evolution of the narrative thematically through the different sections of the novel in order to present the reader with an overview of the novel’s plot. The poem presented in the nineteenth chapter, “Farewell to thee”, is then examined alongside the translation offered by Leirós; this is followed by a new, alternative version proposed by the author. By way of conclusion, the translator’s faithfulness and dedication to Anne Brontë’s original text is demonstrated, while certain inaccuracies, omissions and oversights are acknowledged and analysed from the perspective of literary translation studies.


Author(s):  
I. V. Boiko ◽  

Models are central in many scientific contexts. The purpose of the article is to systematise and theoretically substantiate cognitive-discursive models of translation in the theory and practice of translation studies. The research methods were general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, observation and abstraction. In the perspective of cognitive modelling of translation, the creation of cognitive-discursive models of translation was preceded by cognitive-heuristic (A. H. Mynchenkov), cognitive-psychological (R. Bell), social-cognitive (D. Kiraly), and cognitive-pragmatic (E.-A. Gutt) models of translation. Thus, the development of the cognitive-discursive paradigm has given impetus to cognitive-discursive models of translation, the main advantage of which is the desire of their authors to take into account not only the text in the analysis of translation but also the mental activity of the translator and the reader while interpreting this text. Cognitive-discursive models of translation (T. P. Andriienko, L. Gopo, H. V. Taschenko) primarily focuse on the translator's cognitive sphere and the author's, translator's and reader's interpretation of reality embedded in the text, which results in paying attention to the bilingual picture of the translator's world. Translation in this focus appears as a reworking of someone else's „mental content”, which traditionally consists of interpretation (analysis of the original text), projecting a conceptual image of the source text on the picture of the world of the language of translation and implementation (creation of the text of translation).


Author(s):  
Kovpik S.I.

The purpose of the paper is to identify the peculiarities of literary translation of small genre works by the Polish writer of the 19th century B. Prus into Ukrainian. In accordance with the purpose of the study, the following methods have been used: the analysis of the translated text, the analytical review, the synthesis method.Results. This paper reveals the attempts of exploring the literary translation as a kind of the lingual perspective of the translator mental structures, basically represented by the process of reconstructing one type of information into another. The difference between the linguistic and mental model of the original text and its literary translation primarily is caused by the absence of “common areas” in the mental spaces of the author and the translator. It is extremely difficult for the translator to preserve the mental originality of the text.The overlap areas of mental structures of the author and the translator should have as many similarities as possible, since it makes the literary translation more successful. The translator’s knowledge of the customs, traditions and culture of the original language text contributes to establishing a functional correspondence between the original text and its translation. Translation is an obvious presentation of inter-literary and intercultural relations, which is the basis for the development of multilingual communication. The similarity of the mental structures of the author and the translator allows optimizing intercultural multilingual communication.This paper determines the essence and content of the overlap areas of the mental spaces of the Polish writer B. Prus and the Ukrainian translator D. Andrukhiv in the literary translation of the short story “Antek”.Conclusions. As a result of translating the work of fiction from one language into another, the semantic code of the text changes due to interpenetration of cultural signs. Analyzing the quality of literary translation of the story of “Antek” by the Polish writer B. Prus in Ukrainian proves some differences between the linguistic model of the original text and its literary translation into another language.Key words: mental space, translator, author strategy, common area space. Мета статті полягає у тому, щоб виявити специфіку художнього перекладу українською мовою творів малих жанрів поль-ського письменника ХІХ ст. Б. Пруса. Відповідно до мети дослідження були використані такі методи, як: аналіз перекладаць-кого тексту (у процесі визначення відповідних стильових особливостей тексту (вживання стилістичних прийомів, тобто заміна в перекладі елементів тексту одного функціонального стилю елементами іншого та експресивних засобів мови, фразеологіч-них одиниць, асиндетичних (синонімічних) іменникових сполучень тощо), аналітичний огляд (використано на етапі вивчення актуальності дослідження), метод синтезу (для підбиття підсумків, узагальнення результатів дослідження).Результати. Авторка статті спробувала дослідити художній переклад як своєрідну лінгвальну проєкцію ментальних структур перекладача, основу якої становить процес переробки одного виду інформації в інший. Розбіжність лінгво-ментальної моделі тексту оригіналу та його художнього перекладу на іншу мову зумовлена насамперед відсутністю «загальних зон» ментальних просторів автора тексту оригіналу та перекладача. Надзвичайно складним завданням для перекладача є збереження ментальної своєрідності тексту оригіналу. Дуже важливо, щоб зони перетину ментальних структур автора та перекладача мали якомога більше спільних ознак, що робить художній переклад успішним. Зона перетину ментальних структур автора та перекладача презентує смислове ядро тексту перекладу, де дуже добре можна відстежити те, настільки ментальність перекладача виявилася спорідненою з ментальністю автора. Обізнаність пере-кладача зі звичаями, традиціями та культурою мови оригіналу сприяє встановленню функціональної відповідності між текстом оригіналу та перекладу.Висновки. У результаті перекладу тексту твору художньої літератури з однієї мови на іншу змінюється смисловий код тексту, відбувається взаємопроникнення культурних знаків, котрі презентують авторську стратегію. Усе це сприяє успішному функціонуванню тексту в іншій культурі. Аналіз якості художнього перекладу оповідання польського письменника Б. Пруса «Антек» українською мовою дав можливість установити певні розбіжності лінгвоментальної моделі тексту оригіналу та його художнього перекладу на іншу мову. Лінгвальна розбіжність на культурологічному рівні зумовлена тим, що перекладацький текст став відображенням зони перетину ментальних просторів автора тексту оригіналу та перекладача. Проте вказані розбіжності суттєво не вплинули на зміст твору та не стали перепоною у сприйнятті художньої інформації реципієнтом.Ключові слова: ментальний простір, перекладач, авторська стратегія, простір спільної зони.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Lahiani

Translating concepts of setting can be challenging when their cultural, historical, and geographic contexts are remote from the translator’s experience. Landscape is an essential factor that reveals a great deal of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, which is distant in place, historical framework, and literary tradition from its translators. This article examines the importance of a translator’s awareness of the communicative function of source text references to landscape to adopt appropriate translation strategies. The article presents a case study of a verse line alongside a corpus of nineteen English and French translations. The source text, the Mu‘allaqa of Imru’ al-Qays, names three mountains in Arabia, and space and distance are core themes in the verse line. Comparison is both synchronic and diachronic: at the same time that every translation is compared to the source text, it is also compared to other translations. Prose translations are also examined separately from verse translations, with cross-references in both directions. The translators who adopted source-text-oriented strategies missed communicative clues regarding the setting. However, those who endorsed target-text oriented strategies produced effective and adequate translation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Ramadan Ahmed Almijrab

In translation, the target text in general displays fewer linguistic variations than the source text, and its lexical and syntactic patterns incline to be copied, creating interference and standardization of the ST. Is a translation meant for audiences who are unable to comprehend the original text? Or is it saying the same thing again? These questions demonstrate the divergence of the audience in the domain of art. Yet any rendition, which tries to convey the function, cannot transmit anything but essential information. Does this mean that conveying the essential information represents the cause of inferior translation? Does the inferiority come as a result of the transfer of inaccurate content? This is the trademark of translationese. Is it true that traduttore, traditore? Does this really mean a translator is born not made? However, scholars engaged in a heated debate about what is generally regarded as the essential material of a literary work, what it contains in addition to information. Does it mean that we admit that literary work is profound and mysterious? Do we admit that literary work is poetic to the extent that it can only be reproduced by a translator only if he is also a poet? This will be true whenever a translation undertakes to serve its readerships. However, do we blame the translator if the original culture does not exist in the reader’s language and culture? In the present paper, we will attempt to lay a finger on the significance of achieving equivalence in literary translation within cultural implications that may block the translator. A primary of the place is assigned to البلاغة (Arabic rhetoric) as one of the cornerstones of Arabic.


Literator ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Seema

A translation is generally regarded as a transportation of the message from one text into another such that, in prototypical cases, the content of the original or source text is preserved in the target text. Any translation reflects language and cultural contact. It is the effect of a mapping of one language onto another and of one culture onto another. In both cases, it involves a selection of counterparts. Traditionally, translation is thought of as establishing equivalence between the original text and the translated one. This article explores the notion of equivalence and the closely linked but conflicting principles of fidelity and freedom in translation theory and practice. The issues involved in practical translation stem from a critical selective combination of freedom or fidelity on the part of the translator. Manipulation of either may lead to certain problems. Kipling’s poem ‘If’ is a didactic poem meant to give encouragement. It serves as a motivation as manifest in several traits of a good leader. Maphalla took the initiative to translate Kipling’s poem ‘If’ into Sesotho. This article addresses the idea that the translator’s task is not only to convey Kipling’s ideas but also to render his style in such a way as to make the translation road smooth to a native speaker of the target language, which in this case is Sesotho. This article also advocates greater freedom for the translator, based on Derridean theory that offers the translator more freedom.


Author(s):  
Veronika Bialik ◽  
Ilona Derik

Translation of fiction, and in particular — translation of poetic works plays an extremely important role in modern translation studies. In the process of global more and more people are learning foreign languages and showing a deep interest in the cultural heritage of other countries, including literature. This explains the increased interest of readers in the poetry of foreign authors. The complexity of literary translation is due to the fact that the translator must not only have the basic translation skills, but also must have the creative abilities and background knowledge to fully reproduce all the artistic means that are found in the original text. The objective of the article is to analyze the reproduction of tropes in translation of the poetic work of E. A. Poe “Dreams” from English into Chinese to identify tactics, techniques and transformations allowing to reproduce artistic means in translation. According to the results of the study, it was found out that in the poetic work “Dreams” the following artistic means were employed: epithet, metaphor,personification, comparison and rhetorical question. Despite the difference in the mentalities of the English and Chinese people, the translator used the tactic of national coloring preservation while rendering in translation all the above-mentioned artistic means. This tactic made it possible to fully implement the desired emotional impact on the target audience and convey the mood and attitude of the original author. In the five cases out of the twelve, the translator resorted to the transformation of the addition to deepen the emotional impact on the recipient. It may be concluded that the translator hasn’t only achieved the goal but also managed to preserve the main function of the work of art — an aesthetic impact on the reader, and besides successfully re-created eleven of the twelve artistic means at work.


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