scholarly journals Figurative Language in Malay to English Translation: An Analysis of the 2015 UniMAP VC's Keynote Speech

2018 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 05028
Author(s):  
A. Sharmini ◽  
Muhammad Bazli Mahmood ◽  
Khairul Hisham Jamalludin ◽  
Ahmad Hifzurrahaman Ridzuan ◽  
Mohamad Zaki Abdul Halim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Keynote Speech

Translating figurative language involves more than just replacing the figurative language with its equivalent in the target language. Therefore, it is not surprising for the translation of figurative language to have its own set of challenges. Problems the translator faces in translating the Malay Figurative Language into English include complexities in understanding, interpreting and recreating the Figurative language that are unique in the Source Language (SL) culture; which have to be explained and described in Target Language (TL) where such practices and customs are non - existent. Secondly, the Source Text (ST) figurative language may appear in a variety of types and have a distinct denotative and connotative meaning and reference; most often, it is difficult to find an equivalent which totally matches the original meaning or concept. This particular paper analyses the translation of figurative language extracted from UniMAP's Vice Chancellor Keynote Speech in 2015. Findings reveal that the three categories of figurative language identified were namely idioms, metaphors and similes. Translation strategies used are either not translated, paraphrased or translated with a similar meaning but in different form.

scholarly journals The Application of Translation Strategies to Cope With Equivalence Problems in Translating Texts

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Dhini Aulia
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Problem ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
Equivalence Problems

Translation is a process to render the meaning from the source text into the target text. A translator, however, will find some problems during translation process. Equivalence is the case which often appears (i.e. culture specific concept, the source-language concept is not lexicalized in the target language, source-language word is semantically complex, etc). To cope with equivalnce problems in translation process, some experts suggest some strategies which can be applied in doing translation. Some strategies are transference, naturalization, cultural equivalent, etc. The strategies which often appears in the example texts in this paper are transference, naturalization, descriptive equivalent, couplet and  through-translation. It is recomended that translator apply the strategies if only there is no equivalence problem in target language. 

scholarly journals English Conceptual Discourse Patterns into Azeri-Turkish: A Case Study of Animal Farm

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Esmail Faghih ◽  
Roya Moghiti
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Discourse Patterns ◽  
Animal Farm

Discourse includes both structural and conceptual patterns.  Most of these patterns are different in various languages.  A conceptual pattern in source language can be realized in different ways in a target language.  Therefore, the translator should be aware of this kind of differences between SL and TL conceptual patterns, because rendering these patterns from the source text into the target one can be problematic and their inaccurate transfer may lead to a flawed translation.  This descriptive study aimed to investigate the conceptual discourse patterns and related ideologies in a novel entitled Animal Farm and as the same realizing the conceptual patterns in its translation into Azeri-Turkish.  Accordingly, the researchers selected and analyzed the samples based on Fairclough’s approach (2001) to CDA.  The findings indicated that the translators’ ideological and socio-cultural norms affect their translation strategies and lexical and grammatical choices and this in turn influences their success to recognize and transmit the ST implicit ideologies into TT. Keywords:  Conceptual Discourse Patterns, English, Azeri-Turkish  

scholarly journals Documentary Subtitle Chinese-English Translation from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence: A Study on the Documentary China’s Fight against Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Yeheng Yang ◽  
Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Sentence Length ◽  
Functional Equivalence ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Equivalence Theory ◽  
Present Particle ◽  
Shed Light

This paper adopts Nida's Functional Equivalence theory and studies the Chinese-English subtitle translation of the documentary China’s Fight against Covid-19, which was filmed and broadcast throughout China amid the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020, and it received positive responses in the country. The research objective is to find out the translation strategies, methods and skills involved in achieving the “most natural” and the “most closest” English expressions to the Chinese source text. In the study, investigations on the equivalence of Lexical level, Syntactical level, Contextual level and Textual level in the subtitle are conducted respectively, and the aforementioned translation aspects are discussed under the guidance of Nida’s functional equivalence. The key findings are that the translated texts adopt literal and liberal translation to deal with the Culture-loaded words and four-character idioms on a lexical level. While sentence restructuring, conversion of voice, and conjunction and present particle are used on the syntactic level to make source language and translated subtitle more coherent and authentic. On the contextual and textual level, the target text distinguishes the formal and informal languages through the sentence length and the complexity of the structure. This study offers a practical implication for translating Chinese pandemic discourses into English, and it can also shed light on the study of Chinese narratives during the COVID outbreak and the publicity of the Chinese countermeasures.  

scholarly journals Translation Strategies of Figurative Language in the Novel The Fault in Our Stars

K ta Kita ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Deby Angelia
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Translation Strategy

This research wanted to help the reader to understand about the classification of translation strategies in the novel The Fault in Our Stars. The writer used Larson’s (1998), proposes three strategies to translate figurative language. The writer was interested in analyzing the figurative language because there are many kinds of implicit meaning in figurative language; she felt that it was interesting to be analyzed. Besides, the writer chose a novel because it explains the story more detail than others such as movie. She chose The Fault in Our Stars novel because the story is quite touched and there are a lot of figurative languages on its novel. The writer hope that the translated meaning of figurative language can be the same as the original text.  Keywords: Translation, Translation Strategy, Figurative Language, Source Language, Target Language.

AN ANALYSIS ON THE TRANSLATION OF REPETITIVE INDONESIAN ADJECTIVE INTO ENGLISH

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Arsiwela
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Language Text

The function of translation is to convey meaning or message from source language text into target language text. However, in translating, the translator will face some problems, for example is the translation of repetitive Indonesian adjectives. This study investigates how repetitive Indonesian adjectives are translated into English. Indonesian has repetitive adjectives such as tinggi-tinggi, cantik-cantik, and jauh-jauh and the English translation of the repetition is not tall-tall, beautiful-beautiful, and far-far respectively. The method applied in this study is qualitative descriptive method. The data will be categorized and classified and then analyzed in accordance with the principle, translation strategies, and relevant theories. The result of the study shows that literal translation strategy and transposition strategy are the most frequent strategy used by the translator. Some of them are translated in the different form grammatically but the meaning of the message in source language is well maintained into the target language. The principle of translation employed by the translator to translate Indonesian repetitive adjective is meaning.

scholarly journals An Investigation of Omission and Addition Phenomena in Quranic English Translation of Nessim Joseph Dawood: A Morpho-Syntactic and Ideo-Cultural Analytical Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Ali Albashir Mohammed Alhaj
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
Descriptive Approach

Omission and addition Phenomena in Quranic English Translation are two important issues that grasped the attention of many researchers in translation studies. This study aimed at investigating of omission and addition phenomena in Quranic English Translation of Nessim Joseph Dawood: with special reference to eight selected translated ayah -Surat Yusuf- Ayah-verse (18), Surat Al-Ma’arij, Verse( ayah:17), Surrat Al-Muddathir, ayah (11), Surat Maryam, Ayah (35), Surat Al-Qalam, Ayah (1), Surat Al-Baqarah, Ayah (186), Surat Al’Imran, Ayah:41), and Surrat Al-Jaathiya, Ayah:28).-Qualitative descriptive approach was adopted by the researcher to analyze the data extracted from Nessim Joseph Dawood’s English translation of the aforementioned Surahs. The study revealed losses occurring in translating some morpho-syntactic dimensions such as omitting and admission of important Quranic lexemes. contributed to semantic losses. One kind of such losses is a morph-syntactic loss, which sometimes takes place because of ideo-cultural divergences between the source language and the target language, (that is, Quranic Arabic language and the intended language, English language) This study recommended that omission and addition translation strategies should not be employed by the translators of the Holy Quran to reduce loss in the Quranic translation to maintain the intensity of the Message.

scholarly journals Figurative Language in Translation: A Study of J.P. Clark’s The Ozidi Saga

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diri I. Teilanyo
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Source Text ◽  
English Bilingual ◽  
Basic Code ◽  
Text Language ◽  
Modern Thinking

Abstract The interlingual translation of figurative expressions and idioms is a particularly sensitive task, especially in literary texts where the figurativeness of the language is an inalienable part of the text as a literary piece. Since modern thinking on translation favours fidelity to the source text, the translator is required to maintain – rather than improve, reduce or otherwise alter – the figurative texture of the source text in the target text. In this paper, we investigate the felicity of J.P. Clark’s Izon-English translation in his The Ozidi Saga. We point out that felicitous as Clark’s translation is in general, there are noticeable cases of improvement, impoverishment and alteration, alongside full equivalence, in the figurative texture of the translation when viewed against the Izon text by a sensitive Izon- English bilingual. From this we argue that any form of alteration is a literary disservice to the source text, the source culture and the target audience. We propose that the literary translator should do his utmost to retain the figurative level of the source-text language in the target text, even if this involves literalism and some other violation of the basic code of the target language while annotations and glossaries may be freely employed.

scholarly journals ADDITION IN THE TRANSLATION OF JAMES DASHNER’S THE SCORCH TRIALS INTO INDONESIAN MEIDYNA ARRISANDI’S THE SCORCH TRIALS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Rizki Maisyarah
Keyword(s):  
Target Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Structural Shift ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Componential Analysis

Addition is one of translation strategies in Structural Shift that is aimed to maintain the original meaning from source language into target language. This research studied about Addition in the translation of James Dashner’s The Scorch Trials into Indonesian Meydina Arrisandi’s The Scorch Trials. The Scorch Trials novel was chosen because the Addition frequently found in its translation version. Addition is determined based on the explicit structure found in the target language and it is being analysed using componential analysis and propositional analysis through semantics viewpoint. Additionally, through pragmatics viewpoint,  implicature, context analysis, and deixis analysis through are used in the analysis. There are 124 data found from the novel; and from those data, 1datum is full equivalent, 1 datum is partial equivalent, and 1 datum is no equivalent presented in the paper as representation.. This research is aimed to identify how addition is used in the translation process, and it was found that addition is especially used to make clear the implicit meaning from the source language or to maintain the similar meaning.  

scholarly journals Persian Renderings of English Conceptual Discourse Patterns: A Case Study of Animal Farm

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Esmail Faghih ◽  
Roya Moghiti
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Discourse Patterns ◽  
Animal Farm

Discourse includes both structural and conceptual patterns.  Most of these patterns are different in various languages.  A conceptual pattern in source language can be realized in different ways in target language.  Therefore, the translator should be aware of differences between SL and TL conceptual patterns because rendering these patterns from the source text into the target one can be problematic.  The present descriptive study aimed to investigate the conceptual discourse patterns and related ideologies in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and its Persian translations.  Accordingly, the researchers selected and analyzed the samples based on Fairclough’s (2001) approach to CDA.  Based on the findings, Gheybi (2010) has been more successful in rendering the conceptual discourse patterns and ideologies, because her translation was much more similar to the source text in terms of conceptual discourse patterns as compared to the translation by Hoseyni and Nabizadeh (2003).  The findings indicated that the translators’ ideological and socio-cultural norms affect their translation strategies and lexical and grammatical choices and this in turn influences their success to recognize and transmit the ST implicit ideologies into TT. 

THE TRANSLATION STRATEGIES OF METAPHOR IN THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG TRANSLATED INTO BAHASA INDONESIA BY DIAN PARAMESTI BAHAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairani Hayat Situmorang ◽  
I. W. Dirgeyasa ◽  
Zainuddin Zainuddin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
Dead Metaphor ◽  
Word Translation ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Communicative Translation

The research dealt with Metaphor Sentences. The aims of this study were: (1) to find out the translation strategies of metaphors are used in The Magic of Thinking Big and (2) to describe the translation strategies maintain metaphors in The Magic of Thinking Big. The research was conducted by using qualitative design. The data of this study were sentences. The data were collected through documentary technique and the instrument was the documentary sheet. The technique of data analysis was descriptive. The finding of this study revealed that: (1) The metaphor in The magic of Thinking Big were translated by applying six translation strategies, namely: word for word Translation (5.3%) lieral translation (4.3%), faithful translation (57.5%), Free translation (3.2%), communicative translation (30.5%) and discursive creation was found (2.2%). (2) The metaphors are maintained that found in the Magic of Thinking Big are original metaphors turned into another original metaphors, stock metaphors turned into another stock metaphors, adapted metaphors turned into adapted metaphors, dead metaphors turned into dead metaphors, original metaphor turned into stock metaphor, stock metaphor turned into original metaphor, meanwhile, 10 original metaphors and 1 dead metaphor are no longer classified as metaphors. Language has special characteristic that is metaphor sentences, therefore in the case of translating of metaphor sentences in which their concept in unknown for readers, the translator often faces the problems to find out the translation strategies to translate metaphor in a source language (SL) and how the metaphor sentences are maintained in the target language (TL).Keywords : Metaphor, Translation Strategies, Maintain Metaphor

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