scholarly journals SOME ISSUES REGARDING THE TRANSLATION OF ADJECTIVES IN LITERARY TEXTS FROM ENGLISH TO ALBANIAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2259-2262
Author(s):  
Remzije Nuhiu

Translation of literary texts has always been a huge challenge for translators. To translate a Shakespearean sonnet seems almost impossible when having in consideration the artistic value as well as textual complexity. Some critics even discuss the percentages as to what is more possible to translate in terms of literary genres. Undoubtedly, poetry is harder to translate from one language to another. Drama is easier to translate as it does not have the lengthy description of images that novels have. Translation of novels is somewhere in the middle. The last one is going to be object of discussion in this paper. However, having in mind that a wider research on translation of novels may take a lengthy work, this paper will limit its discussion on the translation of adjectives only. This work will be based on the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and its translation in Albanian Getsbi i Madh by Stavri Pone. Starting from the point that English language is far richer than Albanian language in terms of vocabulary, one can predict that this issue may be quite interesting to discuss. Another dimension of this topic is the fact that in English language adjectives are usually placed before the nouns while in Albanian language they go after the nouns. It is also worth mentioning that English language has different types of adjective from Albanian language. Similar issues will be added to this paper to fulfill this paper and to enlighten the difficulties in this discourse and to raise questions such as: Are the adjectives properly translated? Do they carry the same meaning? What are the most frequent adjectives in English that need to be adapted? Do the adjectives in English stay adjectives in Albanian?

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2259-2262
Author(s):  
Remzije Nuhiu

Translation of literary texts has always been a huge challenge for translators. To translate a Shakespearean sonnet seems almost impossible when having in consideration the artistic value as well as textual complexity. Some critics even discuss the percentages as to what is more possible to translate in terms of literary genres. Undoubtedly, poetry is harder to translate from one language to another. Drama is easier to translate as it does not have the lengthy description of images that novels have. Translation of novels is somewhere in the middle. The last one is going to be object of discussion in this paper. However, having in mind that a wider research on translation of novels may take a lengthy work, this paper will limit its discussion on the translation of adjectives only. This work will be based on the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and its translation in Albanian Getsbi i Madh by Stavri Pone. Starting from the point that English language is far richer than Albanian language in terms of vocabulary, one can predict that this issue may be quite interesting to discuss. Another dimension of this topic is the fact that in English language adjectives are usually placed before the nouns while in Albanian language they go after the nouns. It is also worth mentioning that English language has different types of adjective from Albanian language. Similar issues will be added to this paper to fulfill this paper and to enlighten the difficulties in this discourse and to raise questions such as: Are the adjectives properly translated? Do they carry the same meaning? What are the most frequent adjectives in English that need to be adapted? Do the adjectives in English stay adjectives in Albanian?


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Alif Alfia Ufil Rahayu

In this qualitative research, the researcher only focused on the event or situation in the novel depicting lesbians and  gays sigs. The researcher used The Great Gatsby novel as an object in this research. This research was aimed at one main purpose it was to depict the sign of lesbians and gays in the story of The Great Gatsby. The utterances in the dialogue of The Great Gatsby were used as the main data. All of the data were analyzed by using Lois Tyson’s theory. The results revealed that there were eight lesbian signs and seven signs of gay. In addition, the researcher got that there were  consious type was  dominated sign in this novel. The researcher expected to the next researcher could be did  research on the lesbian and gay signs with the different types of this research.


2022 ◽  
pp. 096394702110481
Author(s):  
Raksangob Wijitsopon

The present study adopts a corpus stylistic approach to: (1) examine a relationship between textual patterns of colour words in The Great Gatsby and their symbolic interpretations and (2) investigate the ways those patterns are handled in Thai translations. Distribution and co-occurrence patterns were analysed for colour words that are key in the novel: white, grey, yellow and lavender. The density and frequent patterns of each word are argued to foreground an association between the colour word and particular concepts, pointing to symbolic meaning potentials related to the novel’s themes of socioeconomic inequality and destructive wealth. The textual patterns are compared with what occurs in three Thai translations of the novel. While most of the colour images are directly translated, non-equivalents tend to be applied to figurative uses of the colour terms. This results in some changes in textual patterns of the colour words in the translated texts, which can in turn affect readers’ interpretations of colour symbolism in the novel.


Author(s):  
Iris Gemeinböck

Currently there are very few specialised corpora of literary texts that are tailored to the needs of literary critics who are interested in corpus stylistic analyses of prose fiction. Many existing corpora including literary texts were compiled for linguistic research interests and are often unsuitable for corpus stylistic purposes. The paper addresses three of the main problems: the absence of labelling of the texts for literary genre, the use of extracts, and the prevalence of linguistic periodisation schemes. C18P is a corpus of prose fiction designed specifically to address these issues. It traces the early development of the novel from 1700 up until the Victorian era. It can, for instance, be used for an analysis of the characteristic linguistic features of individual literary genres and forms. The following paper introduces the design of the corpus as well as some of its potential uses.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Eka Susylowati

<p><em>This research aims to reveal the form and marker of aspectuality in The Great Gatsby novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The data in this study are written data in the form of words, clauses, and sentences in the novel The Great Gatsby. It was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald  consists of three forms of aspectuality namely perfective / completed, progressive, and repetitive / habitual. The aspect that is often used is perfective / completed aspiration. Aspectuality markers used including perfective aspect characterized by past verb or had + past participle verb, while progressive aspect are marked to be + verb ing, and repetitive / habitual are marked with past verb or infinitive forms.</em></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Himawan Agung Rida Pambudi ◽  
Barnabas Sembiring ◽  
Indah Damayanti

This research is aimed to find out and explain the characteristics of women character, to know how the novel portrayed the women and how Indonesian women on education portrayed. According to the data, the researcher gets the result that show characteristics of 3 major women characters. Daisy Buchanan has two characteristics, there are Pessimistic and Materialistic, Jordan Baker also has two, Masculine and Worried, and the last is Myrtle Wilson is Materialistic. Besides that, the researcher also explains the portrayal of women in the novel and relate it to the 1920s era where does the novel come from. The researcher also compared and portrayed the characteristics of American women in the novel and Indonesian women characters.


Author(s):  
Alireza Anushirvani ◽  
Ehsan Alinezhadi

Comparative Literature is categorized among interdisciplinary studies and tries to bridge a gap between different and separated spheres of human studies. Adaptation studies is a subdivision of Comparative Literature that makes a bond between Literature and Cinema. Both Literature and Cinema are two different mediums or different means of expression. Each has its own language to convey meaning. While novel uses words, cinema uses visual and aural images to convey meaning. Linda Hutchean is a famous adaptation theorist and her theories are used by many critics. She categorizes four different parts for her theory. What? Who and Why? How? When and Where? Through these four main parts, she scrutinizes adaptation process. What, refers to the form, changes, gains and losses, using different tools to convey meaning. Who, refers to the adapter. She poses this question that in adaptation process who is the real adapter? Director, composer, screenplay writer or editor? Why, refers to the motivation of the adapter. She tries to find out different motivation of an adapter to adapt a work. When and Where, refers to the time and place of the adaptation process and its influence both during creation and reception process. In this thesis all of these four main parts of Hutcheon’s theory are scrutinized over 2013 adaptation ofThe Great Gatsbyby Buz Luhrmann. Similarities and differences between a novel and film are illuminated through this research. By determining differences between a film and a novel, hidden and unhidden aspects of the novel will be illuminated and this is a pleasure that a comparatist seeks.


ATAVISME ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Sulistyaningsih Sulistyaningsih ◽  
Dina Merris Maya Sari

 This study aims to disclose the cultural reflection of post-colonialism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. This research uses analytical approach of post-colonial literature in the form of colonial behavior passed down to the weak, namely the colonized who consciously or unconsciously becomes the object of ideological oppression and power hegemony. The data collection techniques were reading, identifying, classifying, interpreting, inferring. The results of the analysis of  events in the novel suggest that the descriptions of the colonized  ideology are in the forms of hybrid ideology, mimicry, ethnicism, racism, sexism, and classism. The author describes that Gatsby has reflected ideology of hybrid, mimicry, racism, and ethnicism in his struggle to change his social status to be a rich man designated as the Jazz to attract Desy, his former girlfriend who has left him to marry Tom who has reflected ideology of classism and sexism to the colonialized native inhabitant.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Sirarpi Karapetyan

The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925 is one of the timeless classics of world literature which was investigated from different linguistic perspectives. Its vocabulary is abundant in compound words with a variety of morphological, syntactic, semantic peculiarities. In this paper, we aim at studying compound words in “The Great Gatsby” to illustrate their patterns in English and Armenian. We have investigated the compounds from the morphological-categorial point of view, from the perspective of the syntactic relations between their constituent parts. We have also briefly touched upon some of their semantic features. At the same time, a close attention was paid to the different ways in which compound patterns were translated into Armenian. The study of the main target of the paper is based on Sona Seferyan's translation of the novel “The Great Gatsby” into Armenian. A lot of examples of both synthetic (closed) and analytical (juxtaposed) compounds have been picked out. In Armenian within synthetic compounds we differentiate between those with a linking element, e. g. “աշխարհամարտ” (where “ա” is the linking element) and the ones without а linking element, e. g. “արևելք”. We assume that the peculiarities of compounds revealed in this paper will have significance not only for the description of their characteristic features but also for the general typological characterization of the languages under study.


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