scholarly journals Linguistic Deviation and Techniques of Translation in Spring of Kumari Tears

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Ambhita Dhyaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Effect ◽  
Original Text ◽  
English Version ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Artistic Merit ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

<em>A linguistic deviation occurs when a writer chooses not to abide the rules of a standard language. It is one of the ways to achieve artistic merit. Through linguistic deviation, a writer can communicate unique experiences that cannot be effectively communicated by means of normal communicative resources. It is also a linguistic phenomenon that has an important psychological effect on readers. This article aimed at analyzing the linguistic deviation in Mata Air Air Mata Kumari and the techniques of translation in its English version, Spring of Kumari Tears. The three most used types of linguistic deviation found are semantic deviation (55.77 %), graphological deviation (20.19 %), and grammatical deviation (11.54 %). The rest are phonological and lexical deviation in a small percentage. Meanwhile, the three most used translation techniques are reduction (28.85 %), linguistic compression (23.07 %), and discursive creation (10.58 %). The rest are modulation, amplification, transposition, established equivalent, borrowing, and deletion. The findings indicated that the author mostly used semantic, graphological, and grammatical deviation to create unexpected surprises and make a strong impression to the readers as the means to attain the artistic merit. However, the artistic merit is simplified by the use of the translation techniques which compress the linguistic elements, reduce the message of the original text, and create temporary equivalence that is out of context. As a result, the translated version tends to be more concise and succinct.</em>

scholarly journals Translations of Cicero in Lomonosov’s A Brief Guide to Eloquence

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Word Translation ◽  
The Russian Language

This article examines Mikhail V. Lomonosov’s translation techniques and idiolect in his A Brief Guide to Eloquence (1748), with most of the examples being translated fragments of European literature. A comparison of the translated fragments from Cicero (the author analyses 82 excerpts from the antique orator’s works) with Lomonosov’s own Latin texts makes it possible to see some features of Lomonosov’s translation techniques. Except for the translated fragments included in the textbook on rhetoric, some of Cicero’s works were entirely translated into Russian in the eighteenth century. The author also compares Lomonosov’s translated fragments from Cicero (Cic. Leg. Man., Cat., Arch., Har. resp., etc.) with translations by K. Kondratovich, which were released twenty years after those by Lomonosov. The aim of the research is to show the peculiarities of Lomonosov’s translations, resulting both from the specifics of his translation techniques and the task of these texts as examples of Russian eloquence. The comparative method allows the author to conclude that Lomonosov managed to adequately convey the content and form in his translations and to recreate the style while closely adhering to the original – all this convinced him that the Russian language ‘stands out among all the languages of Europe in its grandeur and richness’. In Lomonosov’s translation techniques, there is a tendency for word-by-word translation and an attempt to preserve the Latin syntax; there is also a noticeable tendency to replace specific ancient culture-specific concepts with modern ones (a principle dating back to humanistic translations into Latin and vulgar languages). The translator’s adherence to the original is of practical importance for historians of literature and allows us to determine when the original text was taken from textbooks on rhetoric.

scholarly journals The Influence of Translation Techniques on the Accuracy and Acceptability of Translated Utterances that Flout the Maxim of Quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ria Aresta
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Maxim Of Quality ◽  
Embedded Case Study

Translating the implied meanings in utterances is one of the trickiest situations translators may confront. One example is in translating utterances that flout the maxim of quality. When a speaker flouts the maxim of quality, they are implying further information that is not represented in the utterance. Translators use various translation techniques in order to convey the meaning of the original text in the most appropriate and acceptable form in the target text. This study investigates how translation techniques may affect the quality of a translation. The approach implemented in this study is pragmatics in translation. This study belongs to the field of descriptive qualitative research with an embedded case study. For data, we look at all the utterances which may be said to be flouting the maxim of quality in the source text and its translation. Content analysis and focus group discussion were applied as the methods to collect and analyze the data. A focus group discussion was used to assess translation quality. The majority of the data was classified as accurate and acceptable, while the rest was considered less accurate and inaccurate due to the application of the translation technique amplification (addition), discursive creation and literal translation. Some data was also found to be less acceptable due to literal translation and pure borrowing.

Zu Geschichte, Theorie und Praxis der Bühnenübersetzung. Am Beispiel von Corneilles Komodie "Le Menteur"

2018 ◽  
pp. 367-398
Author(s):  
Rainer Kohlmayer
Keyword(s):  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
English Version ◽  
Suspension Of Disbelief ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Theorie Und Praxis

After a brief summary of Herder’s enormous influence on literary translation in Germany (translation restores the specific orality of the original text) the essay points out five fundamental criteria that obtain when translating for the stage: Orality, Individual speech of dramatis personae, Relations between persons (as subtext), Necessity of immediate audience comprehensibility (as opposed to the readers’ situation), Theatricality / Fictionality with its typical „suspension of disbelief ” (Coleridge). These criteria are then applied to Pierre Corneille’s comedy Le menteur, written in Alexandrines, the characteristic verse form of French classicism. The original version of 1643 is compared to the verse translations by Goethe (1767), Bing (1875), Schiebelhuth (1954), Kohlmayer (2005), with a side glance at Ranjit Bolt’s English version of 1989. The ease with which young Goethe renders the classicist form of the original into colloquial German is contrasted by Schiebelhuth’s stilted ‚foreignizing’ of the text. The explanation offered is the (fatal) influence of Schleiermacher’s well-known translation theory of 1813, with its categorical preference of foreignizing, in contrast to domesticating (in Venuti’s terminology).

El estilo del traductor en el tratamiento de las onomatopeyas del chino al español

Babel ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-463
Author(s):  
Helena Casas-Tost
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Onomatopoeia are words with peculiar phonological features and expressive capacity which distinguish them from other types of words. These traits together with other elements related to their use in each language often pose a challenge for translators of specific language combinations. This article analyses how Chinese onomatopoeia are translated into Spanish, and it is based on a case study of the Spanish version of the Chinese novel Huozhe (活着) (To live). This piece of creative writing has been chosen because the original text contains many onomatopoeia and because the target text can be regarded as a fine example from a translation point of view. The article begins with a brief overview of the main features of these words and their role in literary texts, as well as the general results of the analysis of a corpus of seven contemporary Chinese novels and their translations into Spanish. Subsequently, the study explores the translation of onomatopoeia in the selected work of fiction in order to identify the mechanisms and translation techniques the translator has adopted and the results in the Spanish target text.

scholarly journals Certain aspects of translation of special texts as a semantic whole (on the example of translation of the Russian-language political text)

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Tatyana Maikova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Formal Business

This article on the example of specific language material analyzes the difficulties causes by the need to translate the text as a semantic whole, as well as outline the methods to avoid them. The texts is viewed from two perspectives &ndash; as a coherent fragment of speech, and as a speech of particular style. The author carries out comparative analysis of the forms of expression inherent to the texts of scientific and formal business styles in the Russian and English languages; highlights the elements relevant for translation; and classifies them based on nature of their correlation. The article also considers the problems of achieving coherence in translation of the text. The conclusion is made on the need for additional translation transformations substantiated not so much by discrepancies in the structure of two languages, but as by belonging of the original text to a particular speech style. The author lays emphasis on coherence and stylistic uniqueness as the elements relevant for translation of the text as a semantic whole. Such transformations as translation conversion, inter-level transformations, and omission are proposed for translating deverbal nouns in scientific and formal business texts. In the aspect of achieving coherence in translation, the author determines such problems as sentence-level topic model and preservation of co-reference. The article can be valuable for translators and in teaching translation techniques.

scholarly journals Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Garry MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Original Material ◽  
New Work ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
English Version ◽  
Biological Specificity ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dark Ecology

In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain has been praised for its naturalism. My translation of this long poem emphasises the immediacy and biological specificity of Macintyre’s descriptions. I explore how the act of translation might intersect with contemporary ecological concerns. My poem is not simply a translation, but incorporates Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain into a new work which juxtaposes a free English version of Macintyre’s work with original material concerned with contemporary research into deer behaviour and ideas of ecological interconnectedness, including biosemiotics and Timothy Morton’s ‘dark ecology’. This article is a reflection on my production of a twenty-first century excavation and reimagining of Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain. I consider how the difficulties of translation might be turned into imaginative opportunities, and explore how translation has the potential to function as exposition and expansion of an original text, in order to create a poem which is itself an ecosystem, comprising of multiple ecological, cultural and political interactions.

Translation of Tropes and Stylistic Devices in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Novel “Everything Is Illuminated”

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Диана Шидловская ◽  
Diana Shidlovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Figurative Meaning ◽  
Metaphoric Language ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Word Game ◽  
Elements Of Style ◽  
Individual Style

Stylistic devices and tropes are the elements of style that give an extra, figurative meaning to a written or oral text. They include metaphors, simile, allegory, paradox, word game and so on. Each author uses them in different ways to make their works more expressive and emotionally dense. Sometimes stylistic devices and tropes can manifest themselves as the characteristics of an author’s individual style. Metaphoric language and bizarre manner of representation are particularly common for the authors of the postmodern era. When it comes to translation of these works from one language to another the process is fraught with pitfalls and challenges for the translator. In the translation studies it’s believed that literary translation requires not only precise rendition of the contents but also conveyance of the stylistic features of a work. This article is dedicated to the analysis of the stylistic devices and tropes used in the novel “Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer and their translation from English into Russian. The aim of this work is to identify what kind of translation techniques are used by the translator V. A. Arkanov to render the linguistic and stylistic properties of the original text.

scholarly journals The Shift Process in Transitivity System on Obama’s and Trump’s Inauguration Speech: A Translation Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Taufik Nur Hidayat ◽  
M.R. Nababan ◽  
Djatmika Djatmika
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Translation Study ◽  
Verbal Group ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purpose of this study is to describe the shift process which is caused by applying certain translation techniques. The techniques are modulation, transposition, implication, and reduction by Molina and Albir (2002). The research used descriptive qualitative-quantitative method by applying purposive sampling technique. The source of the data was the text of Obama’s and Trump’s inauguration speech and their respective translations. There were 152 data in each inauguration speech. The data were the clause which contains the process type which is realized in verbal group in English and its translation. Based on the total of research data, 10 data or 6.57 % in Obama’s inauguration speech and 7 data or 4.60 % in Trump’s inauguration speech was obtained. The obtained data was changing or shifting in process type from the original text into the target text (Indonesian). So, the result of the research supports the theory that modulation, implication, explication, and reduction can cause the shift, especially in verbal group.

scholarly journals Ukrainian culture fansubbed: Challenges of amateur subtitling

2021 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Nataliia Gach ◽  
Yuliia Trykashna ◽  
Artem Zahrebelnyi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Formulaic Sequences ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The research addresses the issues of rendering culture specific information in amateur subtitling from the Ukrainian into the English language. The fansubbing of proper names, culture-bound common nouns, formulaic sequences, sociolects and songs by the non-professional translators for whom English is a foreign language is the main focus of this study. Thus, the comparative analysis of the Ukrainian films Chasing Two Hares (1961), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (2001), and their English subtitles reveals the difficulties fansubbers may face, as well as discusses translations strategies and techniques employed. Moreover, the study delves into reasons underlying the choice of translation approaches by nonprofessional subtitlers, including the collaborative nature of the process, the lack of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, as well as the insufficient mastering of the target language. Therefore, being a comprehensive study of the ways to convey cultural connotations of the original text by means of a foreign language on the level of fansubs, the research gives insight into the interconnection between the translation techniques used to render cultural references and the effect a target text may have on the audience.

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