scholarly journals Traduire l’Ekphrasis. Le cas des Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire en Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Elnaz Habibifar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
General Description ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Fleurs Du Mal

Cultural exchanges between Iran and France started over three centuries ago. In spite of the strong relationship between the two countries, some books such as Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) went unnoticed in Iranian society. In addition to the literary value of the book, we propose to study ekphrasis in Baudelaire’s poems and its translation into Persian. Its meaning being that of a general description an artwork (imaginary or real), the term ekphrasis belongs to an interdisciplinary field of literature and art where the textual challenges we face may vary from one to another. To narrow down our study, we will focus on four chosen poems that have a minimum of two published translations in Persian, thus allowing the opportunity for a comparative study. These chosen poems, “La Beauté”, “L’Invitation au voyage”, “Les Plaintes d’un Icare” and “Femmes damnées” (“Delphine et Hippolyte”) as well as our corpus translation in Persian, are being studied and analysed through Descriptive Translation Studies. The analysis focuses on the ekphrastic aspect of these poems, their translations into Persian through syntactic and semantic levels and the influence of culture and society on the translation.

scholarly journals A comparative study that investigates the treatment of technical terms, acronyms and numbers in a Tsonga technical target text

Literator ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidon Chauke
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Instrumental Value ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Technical Terms

In each and every translated text, there is a certain intended meaning that is being communicated to the target reader or audience in their target language, which is equivalent to what is in the source text. Nonetheless, there is still a big debate on whether a translation should follow the communicative meaning or the semantic meaning when conveying the communicated message. This article provides an analysis and application of Toury’s Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) methodology on the treatment of technical terms, abbreviations or acronyms and numbers in a Tsonga target text. It also investigated the strategies applied by the translator to close the gap between the two languages in question (Tsonga and English), which vary significantly when we compare their instrumental value, hegemony and economic status.

Descriptive translation studies: uma revisão crítica

Gragoatá ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Amaral Peixoto Martins
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

O objetivo deste artigo e, em um primeiro momento, fazer uma breve revisão das principais contribuições do modelo teórico dos Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS), desenvolvido em meados dos anos 70 por um grupo de estudiosos de Israel e dos Países Baixos preocupados com a estudo da literatura traduzida, para em seguida apontar alguns problemas e lacunas teóricas que não parecem ter sido satisfatoriamente resolvidos em posteriores refinamentos da teoria. A abordagem descritivista fundamenta-se nos seguintes pressupostos: (i) uma visão da literatura como um sistema dinâmico e complexo; (ii) a convicção de que deve haver uma interação permanente entre modelos teóricos e estudos de caso; (iii) uma abordagem da tradução literária de caráter descritivo (portanto, não normativa) e voltada para a texto-alvo, além de funcional e sistêmica; e (iv) um interesse pelas normas e coerções que governam a produção e a recepção de traduções, pela relação entre a tradução e outros tipos de reescritura e pelo lugar e função da literatura traduzida tanto num determinado sistema literário quanto na interação entre literaturas. Nos últimos vinte e cinco anos, a abordagem descritivista vem informando inúmeros estudos sabre o sistema de literatura traduzida de inúmeras culturas, principalmente europeias, mas ainda apresenta alguns problemas que precisam ser melhor trabalhados no âmbito da teoria. Entre estes, destacamos a risco de incorrer num “descritivismo” puro e simples, desprovido de uma elaboração crítica, e a relativa despreocupação em explicitar os fundamentos epistemológicos da teoria e em (re)definir conceitos importantes.

scholarly journals Inquiries on Cultural Markers in Translation

Tradterm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Francis Henrik Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Cultural Markers ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

In descriptive translation studies, the identification of cultural markers brings with it certain theoretical and methodological difficulties: the very conceptualization of the cultural marker; its subcategories, both linguistic and extra-linguistic; the appropriate procedures to carry out its identification. The present essay seeks to map the extent of these difficulties and make a number of proposals, yet to be tested in descriptive practice.

scholarly journals Textual Criticism, Translation Studies, and Symmachus’s Version in the Book of Job

Textus ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Alison Salvesen
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Variant Reading ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies

Abstract The late second century CE translator/reviser Symmachus took a very different approach to the versions of his predecessor Aquila. His renderings do not appear to have survived in Jewish circles but were much admired by early Christian scholars, thanks to their preservation in Origen’s Hexapla. However, for textual critics of the Hebrew Bible Symmachus’ free approach has limited his value since his readings cannot be easily retroverted, unlike those of Aquila or Theodotion. In the case of the book of Job, although Symmachus’ “transformations” (to use a term from Descriptive Translation Studies) differ in nature from the freedoms observed in OG Job, while rejecting the narrow isomorphism of Aquila and Theodotion he nevertheless adheres quite closely to his Hebrew Vorlage. This offers the possibility of identifying elements significant for textual criticism in his rendering, including variant reading traditions or a different consonantal text.

The subtitling of offensive and taboo language into Spanish of Inglourious Basterds

Babel ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Javier Ávila-Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies ◽  
Translational Strategies ◽  
Strategy Design ◽  
The Way

The transfer of offensive and taboo language in subtitling may position translators’ choices in a challenging and controversial situation, given the effect that such terms can cause on the audience (Díaz Cintas 2001a). Nowadays, it seems that dealing with this type of language starts to gain more attention in academic circles, as it belongs to colloquial language within a low register, and as such we do speak in diverse manners depending on the context we are in. This paper delves into the way offensive and taboo language has been subtitled into European Spanish. In order to conduct this study, the subtitling of the DVD version of Quentin Tarantino’s multilingual film Inglourious Basterds (2009) has been described and analyzed, resorting to a multi-strategy design (Robson 2011) which combines quantitative with qualitative data, under the umbrella of the descriptive translation studies paradigm. Accordingly, the main purpose of this analysis is to determine any regularities in the way in which offensive and taboo language has been dealt with in this particular case study, considering the technological restrictions of subtitling as well as the translational strategies employed. Thus, this study aims to shed some light on the way this type of language has been transferred on the screen.

Blood Wedding in (re)translation

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Patricia González Bermúdez
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Seminal Article

Abstract This article is a comparative study of four different translations into English of Federico García Lorca's play Bodas de sangre (1933) carried out in the United Kingdom and Ireland throughout the 1990s. Since the publication of Antoine Berman's seminal article on 'retranslation', this theoretical concept has provided a fecund framework for descriptive translation studies, illuminating the variety of solutions translators provide when confronted with the same original text. This article furthers that body of scholarship while simultaneously providing new angles on Lorca's dramatic work. The comparative approach to several English translations of this classic work concentrates on two key scenes of the play and discusses the linguistic, pragmatic and theatrical adequacy of each translation.

Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond

Language ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Gladys E. Saunders ◽  
Gideon Toury
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Descriptive Translation Studies
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