scholarly journals - SEMIOTIC MODEL FOR EQUIVALENCE AND NON-EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hasyim ◽  
Prasuri Kuswarini ◽  
Kaharuddin
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the study: Not all languages have a universal concept of the same object, and this creates problems in translation. This paper aims to examine the semiotic model for equivalence or non-equivalence in translation which attempts to define the semiotic model, to use the model for translation, and to offer the benefits of this model to solving translation’s problem in equivalence and non-equivalence. Methodology: The data of this research are derived from the novel Lelaki Harimau, as the source language and L'homme Tigre, as the target language. This model is used in the Indonesian novel which has been translated into 14 languages, one of which is in French. The authors use a semiotic approach to analyze the equivalence and non-equivalence in the translation.  Main Findings: This study reveals that the concept of signified in the semiotic theory proposes two models: the first: translation using the same concept in the source text (ST) and target text (TT), which is broadly known as equivalence, the second: translation using different concept between ST and TT, this called non-equivalence. This article not only explores the issue of meaning contextually in translation, but also the use of the semiotic model in translation which shows that the language perspective depends on the relationship between the sign and the object. Applications of this study: The model for this study can be used not only in translation studies at universities but also in providing supporting data for applied linguistic studies. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study provides a novelty in translation research with a semiotic approach. The contribution of this study is that the semiotics perspective suggests that a sign in the concept level (signified) will not be universal due to different cultural backgrounds.

Translating the translingual text

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Russian Translation ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Language ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Russian Linguistic

This article examines strategies applied in selected passages of Elena Petrova’s Russian translation of Olga Grushin’s anglophone novel The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2005). The novel is set in Moscow during the late Soviet period and depicts a crisis precipitated by the changes brought by glasnost in the life of a loyal apparatchik. Although the Russian-American writer Grushin composed the novel in her adopted language of English, it reflects a Russian cultural subtext and contains numerous Russian linguistic elements and cultural allusions. It is therefore interesting to analyze how these elements are rendered in the Russian translation, entitled Zhizn’ Sukhanova v snovideniiakh (2011). The analysis is followed by a consideration of challenges posed by translingual texts to theoretical understandings of translation. It argues that established concepts within translation studies, such as domestication, foreignization, source language and target language, are not well-suited to cases of literary translingualism.

scholarly journals An Examination of Berman’s Negative Deformation Tendencies on Persian Translation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Fahimeh Vamenani ◽  
Moslem Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
Document Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Persian Language ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Persian Translation

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the frequency of deforming tendencies on Persian translation of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles based on Berman’s model. Moreover, the study set out to find out how words have been changed from the source language to fit the target language by adopting deforming tendencies. To achieve the aims of study, the researchers relied on content or document analysis as a qualitative type of study to analyze the strategies which were used in the translation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles novel from English to Persian. The data came from a sample of 300 sentences which were randomly selected from the novel translated into the Persian language by Mina Sarabi.The trustworthiness of the research findings was met through inter-rater agreement and it was reported 0.94. The results indicated that Persian translation of the work suffered from lexical mismatches, destruction of rhythm and destruction of vernacular networks, although destruction of rhythms and destruction of vernacular networks were among the most frequently used deformation tendencies. The findings also revealed that the translation has in one way or another maintained the genre and social stance of the author. Overall, it appears that Berman offers a model which is too severe on keeping the form and syntax of the source text in the Persian translation of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

Flaubert’s Parrot

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-468
Author(s):  
Jelena Pralas ◽  
Olivera Kusovac
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Abstract The strict boundaries between disciplines have been seriously challenged by various links established between them through cross-fertilization. Links between literary and translation studies are not new. However, in the (post)-modern world, when interdisciplinarity is starting to give way to transdisciplinarity, a new meeting point has been found in transfiction, enabling translation to become an interpretative paradigm for literature. Attempting to support this rather neglected approach, this paper analyzes Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot in the light of the relationship between source and target texts and the concept of the invariant as a reflection of the postmodern quest for truth, claiming that the novel makes a fictional dethronement of the source text and calls for a shift from instrumentalism to the hermeneutic approach in translation.

scholarly journals Nonce words by J. Joyce in Ukrainian Translation

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Universal Approach ◽  
Individual Style

The paper focuses on the specifics of reproducing nonce units coined by the author of the original literary work into Ukrainian. Nonce formations are topical and promising object of translation studies due to the whole range of reasons. First, a variety of their representations is of great interest in terms of their interpreting. In most cases, interpretation of nonce units is complicated as their morphemic structure is vague. Second, nonce units belong to the words with no direct equivalents in other languages, which greatly complicates the ways of their reproducing in the target language. Thus, dealing with each particular nonce formation in the source language, the translator has to apply non-standard approaches to selecting/coining its equivalent in the target language. So, the great contribution of the translator, his/her importance compared to that of the author of the literary work is proven. Ulysses abounds with nonce formations, making the whole piece of writing extremely challenging for translators. We classify Joyce’s nonce formations by their word-building patterns into two groups: phonographic (coined by means of combining phonemes) and morphological (coined by means of random combining morphemes or their segments). This makes it possible to conclude that the morphological structure of nonce units impacts both interpreting and coining their equivalents. However, the universal approach or strategy to their reproducing in the target language does not exist. In every case the translator should take into account the whole range of factors including but not limited to rendering pragmatic intentions of the author of the original literary work and uniqueness of his/her individual style. While reproducing nonce words of the novel Ulysses into Ukrainian, in most cases translators applied calque (loan translation) and compensation rather than transcoding. Their choice of the domestication strategy can be explained by their attempts to make one of the most difficult novels more accessible to Ukrainian readers.

scholarly journals THE VARIATION OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING BREADTH OF BILINGUAL TEXT “SERIBU KUNANG-KUNANG DI MANHATTAN BY UMAR KHAYAM”

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Eka Yunita Liambo
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
First Variation ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Bilingual Text

<p class="Abstract">ABSTRACT</p><p class="IsiAbstrakabstractcontent"><em>The process of meaning realization to the target language may involve the change of meaning. This change leads to the variation of meaning depth, breadth, and height. This is caused by the differences of linguistic features between the target language and source language. Therefore, the difficulties of finding equivalent words in target language may force translators to use other words which do not have the exactly similar meaning. However, this becomes a phenomenon in translation studies. This research aims to know the variation of interpersonal meaning breadth of a bilingual text. The primary data of this research is the sentences of first bilingual text taken from Seribu Kunang-Kunang di Manhattan translated into A Thousand Fireflies in Manhattan. There were 281 sentences are analysed. The result shows that those sentences found to have different variations. The most frequently variations found in this short story are the first variations in which element functions in the source text and target text have one difference. First variation has 28,82% then followed by zero variation  with 23,48%. Whereas other sentences is classified as the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth variation of interpersonal meaning breadth with percentage of 18,14%, 4,62%, 3,20%, 14,23% and 7,47%. These variations occurring in the first bilingual text Seribu Kunang-Kunang di Manhattan translated into A Thousand Fireflies in Manhattan seems to be done to maintain the correspondence in the target language.</em></p><strong>Keywords: </strong>bilingual, breadth meaning, interpersonal, translation, variation of meaning,

scholarly journals THE ESSENCE OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONCERNS IN TRANSLATION STUDIES AND THEIR SOLUTIONS

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
S. Aleksenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
The Impact

Translation as a complex dual process incorporating linguistic and cultural transfer of the source text meaning and intention in the target text has come to be frequently recognized by researchers as inevitably bound up with a socially regulated practice and tradition. The article deals with those sociolinguistic concerns which came into the limelight with the development of a new disciplinary approach to translation studies – translation sociology. This interdisciplinary science focuses on delivering the impact of certain social factors (social status, social roles, gender, age, the place of origin, ethnicity) on language variation in different communicative situations. There have been outlined the following major sociolinguistic concerns related to translation practice: the representation of social stratification of the source culture in the target text; the preservation of a source language set of socio-semiotic parameters of field, tenor and mode in the target language; adherence to certain social norms of translation as to society-generated stereotypical approaches to the allowed degree of adaptation of source texts. The demonstration of social realia of the source language is hindered by the discrepancy in the segmentation / hierarchy of the social order immanent in both cultures, the fact inducing dynamic (or communicative) translation as the most efficient tactic of a translator and drawing in functional analogues – as a translation technique. Sociolinguistic facet of translation as a communicative process embedded in a social situation presupposes interpreting a communicative act as an interplay of socio-semiotic parameters so as to keep up the tonality of the source text, the latter ensuing from the actants’ roles balance and their being geared towards the addressee’s expectations. The solution to the problem of social norms of translation is deemed arbitrary regarding an aesthetic translation tradition of a culture. Keywords: translation sociology, sociolinguistic concerns, social factors, sociosemiotic parameters, social norm of translation.

scholarly journals TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY ANALYSIS OF PROPER NOUNS IN THE NOVEL PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-98
Author(s):  
Ayu Bandu Retnomurti ◽  
Marmita Fiona
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Proper Noun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Original Title

Abstract: The research aims to describe translation ideology analysis of proper noun and todescribe the types of translation ideology which occur in the novel Pride and Prejudice. Themethod used in the research is a qualitative comparative approach by comparing the translation ofproper nouns in Source Language and Target Language. The results of the analysis show that thetranslator used foreignization ideology to transfer the meaning of the source text. The tendency isseen in the title of the text where the translator keeps the original title Pride and Prejudice insteadof transferring into Harga Diri dan Prasangka. The type of translation ideologies occur in thenovel are foreignization in which the translator stays faithful to the source language by preservingMr. Darcy into Mr. Darcy, and domestication in which the translator stays closer to the targetlanguage by transforming The Bennets into Keluarga Bennet.Key Words: Translation; Translation Ideology; Proper Noun; Novel

‘Literal Meaning’ or ‘Correctʿaqīda’? The Reflection of Theological Controversy in Indonesian Qur'an Translations

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Pink
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Attributes Of God ◽  
Theological Controversy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Qur'an Commentaries ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

This paper deals with the traces of theological controversies in translations of the Qur'an into Bahasa Indonesia. It examines thirteen translations that have been published between the 1920s and the present time, discusses problems in the study of these sources, and analyses the exegetical choices made by the translators based on a number of case studies. These include Qur'anic verses that touch upon the issue of free will versus predestination, the relationship between God and Man, and the anthropomorphic attributes of God. The decisions that translators make have to take into account a number of factors such as discrepancies between the source language and the target language, the wish to remove ambiguities, or inconsistencies between the source text and external structures – for example, theological dogma or ḥadīths. The paper shows that the influence of various theological currents, from neo-Muʿtazili to Saudi-Wahhābi, can be identified through the analysis of Indonesian Qur'an translations. It furthermore comes to the conclusion that it might be analytically meaningful to distinguish, first, between Qur'an translations and Qur'an commentaries, and second, between translations with a predominantly non-Muslim readership and those with a predominantly Muslim readership.

scholarly journals The Domestication in Gabrielle Wahbeh’s Translation of Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Ibtehaj Mohammed Akhoirsheda
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
American Author ◽  
The Individual

The Old Man and the Sea is a novel that is written by the American author Ernest Hemingway, . The novel is full of religious utterances and symbols. Different translators have translated this novel into various languages. Gabrielle Wahbeh is a Christian Egyptian writer who translated this novel into Arabic.  By reading the source text and the translated text, I can tell that Wahbe’s translation of the novel differs from the original text in regards to religious terms paraphrasing them. The results show that none of the Arabic idioms used in this study have equivalences in English language and so, what is shown are the paraphrased meaning for each  My study will be based on the comparison and analysis of the translation including some examples from the source text into Arabic. The main aim for this study is to highlight Venuti’s translation strategy “domestication “that has been used in translating this novel into Arabic.   Translation is the process of rendering a unit from one language (Source Language) into another (Target Language). When it comes to idioms (fixed expressions consisting of two words or more giving a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words), the translators are going to face a number of troubles. This study focuses on translating the Arabic idioms . The methodology of this study is based on a number of statements collected verbally or through written texts and expressing the meaning by paraphrasing them. The results show that none of the Arabic idioms used in this study have equivalences in English language and so, what is shown are the paraphrased meaning for each.

scholarly journals Free vs. Faithful – Towards Identifying the Relationship between Academic and Professional Criteria for Legal Translation

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-239
Author(s):  
Mette Hjort-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Binding Force ◽  
Legal Translation ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

For many years translation theorists have discussed the degree of translational freedom a legal translator has in rendering the meaning of a legal source text in a translation. Some believe that in order to achieve the communicative purpose, legal translators should focus on readability and bias their translation towards the target language community. Others insist that because of the special nature of legal texts and the sometimes binding force of legal translations, translators should stay as close to the source text as possible, i.e., bias their translation towards the source language community. But what is the relationship between these ‘academic’ observations and the way professional users and producers, i.e., lawyers and translators, think of legal translation? This article examines how actors on the Danish legal translation market view translational manoeuvres that result in a more or less close relationship between a legal source text and its translation, and also the translator’s power to decide what the nature of this relationship should be and how it should manifest itself in the translation.

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