Criteria for evaluating literary translation: Buryat-Russian parallels

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Irina S. Alexeeva ◽  
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Polina P. Dashinimaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Text Coherence ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
New Criterion ◽  
Regional Languages ◽  
Individual Style ◽  
Multicomponent Model

Extensive translation experience, corresponding theories and concepts, and taking into account the needs of modern society for literary translation are the criteria for evaluating a literary text translation nowadays. The paper offers stages to form the like criteria for evaluating a translated literary text as an integrative multicomponent model. It takes into account aesthetic information, text coherence, systemic dominants and frequency of style features, diachronic distance, the translator’s individual style, the target language literary norm and society’s needs specifics. The components might be taken as nuclear ones while considering translations of the past and present, as well as a two-step translation through an intermediary language. However, when we are faced with translations from Russia’s regional languages into Russian, the named general criteria are not enough, since we ought to implement the strategy of cultural self-realization as well. Buryat-Russian translation parallels have made the authors come to a new criterion model.

scholarly journals SOME PECULIARITIES OF S. LEACOCK’S SHORT-STORY «THE MAN IN ASBESTOS: AN ALLEGORY OF THE FUTURE» TRANSLATION INTO UKRAINIAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
Maryna Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Semantic Development ◽  
English Canadian

The role of S. Leacock as a representative of English-Canadian literature and peculiarities of his creative works are given in the article. The peculiarities of the literary translation which aim is to reflect ideas, feelings transforming the author’s images with the help of another language material, the main features that make it different from a classical one were stated. The scholars who scrutinize the problems of a literary text translation in the contemporary linguistics was found out. The differences between the original text of S. Leacock’s short-story «The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future» and the text of translation and its translation by A. Yevsa were analyzed in the article. The translation can be called adequate as some change of content of the original text by the target language means did not impact into general perception of the short-story in its translation. The translator conveys the author’s ideas provoking reader’s reaction to the story. A. Yevsa preserved its content, the system of images and the author’s style, emotional atmosphere and plot identity of the original text and the choice of linguo-stylistic devices used in the original text. General peculiarities of the translation into Ukrainian, main grammar and lexical transformations used by A. Yevsa were marked, among which are generalization, concretization, compensation, semantic development and combination of sentences prevail.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATION OF E.SETON-THOMPSON’S SHORT STORY ‘THE ВIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY’

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
M.Yu. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Transformation Techniques ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
The Given

The role of Ernest Seton-Thompson as a writer who started the genre of animal short-story and his contribution into the national Canadian literature are discussed in the article. Peculiar features of animal-personages from his short-stories which are close to people were singled out. The peculiarities of the literary translation which aim is to reflect ideas, feelings transforming the author’s images with the help of another language material, the main features that make it different from a classical one were stated. Contemporary scholars who scrutinize this aspect in modern translation studies were found out. The notion of adequacy in the process of a literary text translation, the necessity and strive of the translator to reflect the sense, embodied in artistic images, to preserve genre and style and structural-compositional peculiarities of the original text in the context of comparative analysis of the literary text were noted. The differences between the original text of E.Seton-Thompson’s short-story “The Biography of a Grizzly” and its translation by М.Chukovsky were analyzed in the given article. The translation can be called adequate as some change of content and form of the original text by means of the target language did not impact into general perception of the short-story in its translation. The translator conveys the author’s ideas provoking reader‘s reaction to the story. М.Chukovsky  preserved its content, the system of images and the author’s style and plot identity of the original text. Peculiarities of his translation, main structural-grammar and lexical transformations used in the translation were marked. Among the most frequently used transformation techniques actual division of the sentence, grammar changes, change of the sentence parts, concretization, generalization, addition, omission and antonymic translation are noted.

scholarly journals An Inquiry into the Challenges of Literary Translation to Improve Literary Translation Competence with Reference to an Anecdote by Heinrich von Kleist

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Abbas Ali Salehi Kahrizsangi ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Haddadi
Keyword(s):  
Expressive Power ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Heinrich Von Kleist ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Translation Function

Acquisition and improvement of literary translation competence is an important undertaking in teaching literary translation with the aim to enable the student to translate into the target language the content, expressive power, language style, and an equal function of the literary text. This essay pursues the aim of helping to create and improve the literary translation competence in the student by inquiring into and analyzing the challenges and proposing solutions to translation. The approach of this inquiry seeks to explain the significance of the language style and translation function in the target language using Nord’s Function-Focused Theory by making reference to a translation of an anecdote by Heinrich von Kleist.

scholarly journals Criteria for Evaluating Literary Translation: Mixing the Eternal and the New

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-99
Author(s):  
Irina Alexeeva
Keyword(s):  
Practical Experience ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Translation Method ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Style ◽  
Multicomponent Model

Today the criteria for evaluating translations of literary texts combine vast practical experience, insights of the translation theory and the demands set by the contemporary society for the translation of literature. The article describes the stages of developing literary translation criteria and offers the integrative multicomponent model which comprises aesthetic information, text unity, dominant style features and their frequency, diachronic distance, translator’s individual style, literary norm of the receiving language and specificity of the social expectations. The above-listed components are considered crucial in the analysis of the present-day and past translations, as well as in the study of two-step translation method via the mediating language.

scholarly journals Stylistic approaches of literary translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/S) ◽  
pp. 196-201
Author(s):  
Shukhrat Muladjanov ◽  
Tozagul Nasrullayeva
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Linguistic Approaches

Abstract This paper is devoted to stylistic approaches of literary translation rendered in extra-linguistic approaches. The peculiarities of origin text, the author’s style and expressions, stylistic approaches of the text include the transmission to target language. The translator’s attitude towards the cultural-bound stylistic units of the source literary text and their translation to target language. The preservation of linguacultural, phraseological and socio-cultural words from one language to another according to translation rules.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF A TRANSLATOR

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Anthropological Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Experience ◽  
Definition Of

The article discusses the problems related to the specification of the levels of linguistic personality of a literary translation. Translator’s linguistic personality is a subtype of a linguistic personality, which is always limited to a special social function and conditioned by the ideas, style, linguistic peculiarities and preferences of the source text author. Therefore, a literary translator represents the reality that was perceived through the prism of a source text author’s mentality and cognitive experience, but with the attraction of own cognitive baggage and understanding of the foreign culture. The topicality of the research is conditioned by the necessity of definition of key components of s linguistic personality as essential elements of a literary text translation from the point of view of pragmatics. Moreover, the development of linguopersonology contributed seriously to the development of anthropological linguistics, therefore, the literary translation, being a part of anthropocentric paradigm, needs more detailed elaboration of a linguistic personality of a literary translator as this sphere is insufficiently researched. According to the understanding of a literary text as a complicated and multilevel phenomena representing a secondary objective reality and involving various contexts, it is necessary to take into consideration that a literary translator is also a secondary linguistic personality whose main goal is to represent an adequate text in the target language. Basing on the functional approaches, the levels (which are: linguocreative, pragmatic, cognitive, ideological and socio-cultural) reflecting the specificity of literary contexts were defined and justified. Each level is illustrated with the relevant examples that provide practical application of the developed theory. It is also emphasized that the differences in perception of a linguistic picture of the world by different cultures may affect the adequacy of translation, therefore, only linguistic knowledge is not enough for developing good translation skills in the sphere of a literary translation.

To The Problem Of Researching Individual Concepts In Author’s Texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Nadezhda V. Razumkova
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Anthropological Linguistics ◽  
Individual Concepts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Individual Style

This article reviews the text concept studies on the material of a Russian poem and its translation into Chinese within the framework of the anthropological linguistics. The study of individual concepts, embodying the ethical and aesthetic values of a creative person, is relevant and promising for the further development of establishing their role in the implementation of a writer’s individual style in translation. The author analyzes the lexical-semantic space, which implements a fragment of the content of the universal concept of HOME, presented in the original and translated texts. The author presents a linguistic experiment carried out among Chinese students. Its purpose was to consider the cognitive (indicative, figurative, and situational) basis of the content of the translation and the degree of its compliance with the author’s intention. The tasks include the description of translation transformations as well as interpretation of the mental reactions of Chinese respondents. The results obtained indicate that the author’s representation of the HOME concept is achieved through the use of cognitive structures, associated with Russian traditional views. The representation of the discursive concept by interpreters is accompanied by cognitive refraction in terms of the associative development of thoughts. Literary translation is seen as an indirect act of intercultural communication, the subjects of which — the author, translator, and reader — have a set of individual characteristics, lining up on the principle of following an ethnic cultural standard to individual-emotional and gender marked manifestations.

scholarly journals Brief History of Science Translation in China

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 1010-1021
Author(s):  
Xu Jianzhong
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Similar Information ◽  
Oral Interpretation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Information

Abstract Science translation is a new branch of learning in China, but its practice can be traced back to about 200 BC. It includes all the practical fields but literary translation. It is the translation activity that mainly conveys science information, especially a thought activity and extra-language activity of the translator’s using target language to express the science information of source language so as to pursue the similar information. This paper briefly examines its history chronologically, and explores its gradual movement from practice to theory, from written translation to oral interpretation, from general theory to discipline studies. The history of science translation is composed of human translation and machine translation, but this paper only deals with the former.

scholarly journals FOREIGN WORDS: ON THE ISSUES OF FUNCTIONING AND TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(78)) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Olga Grynko
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Relevant Feature ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Foreign Word ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Individual Style

When used in the texts, foreign words often function as a stylistic device and become a relevant feature of the author’s individual style. The article looks at the issues of functioning and translation of foreign words with the focus on those not being “adapted”, that is preserving its original “foreign” form (unlike those being transcribed without morphological and syntactical changes). The work systematizes the ways these elements are introduced into the original text. It shows they can either be introduced with no explanation, relying on the reader’s general expertise and creating certain environment, flavour etc. or be accompanied by any kind of their meaning’s explanation). The article also offers the insights into the key functions of the foreign words in popular-science texts (specifically, they make the text sound more authentic and documentary, and also display author’s intelligence and competence). Further, the research finalizes the classification of the ways to translate/render the foreign words in the translated text in the view of the genre peculiarities of popular-science texts. Among other ways, such as preserving a foreign word with a translation of the author’s comment, transcription/transliteration, translator’s comments, actual translation into the target language, etc., such texts allow for science editor’s comments in translation.

scholarly journals Literary translation: implantation vs transference

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
AlZu’bi Khaled
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Figures Of Speech

The figurative language employed by authors, which reflects their styles of writing, is one main reason behind the challenges that most literary translators encounter when dealing with literary works. Usually employed for aesthetic and poetic purposes, figures of speech imply connotative meanings. In literary works, words are used only assigns to settle down the flying spirits of meanings and ideas so that the audience can have a thread that could lead them to intended meanings. I believe that literary translators should face the challenges of translating literary works through two main approaches. First, transferring the work of art as it is without trying to find any equivalent in the target language for any piece of text in the source language. The aim of such type of translation would be familiarizing the audience in the target language with the literature and culture of the source language. Second, translating the SL work of art creatively, i.e. using all possible strategies and procedures to find natural equivalents in the TL for any stylistic features in the SLT. This type of translation should aim at pleasing and entertaining the TL audience.

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