scholarly journals Rendering stylistically marked units in the novel Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan: a comparative study

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Mariia Onyshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Expressive Meaning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Colloquial Style

The study analyzes lexemes and word combinations of colloquial style, slang and low colloquial language, performs their comparative analysis at word level, looks into the transformational patterns that the structures undergo during literary translation into English and Russian, and discusses the advantages and flaws of the applied translation strategies through suggesting adequate translation solutions. In the article, the argument is made that the translation strategies of substandard lexis reflect the interdisciplinary nature of expressive meaning and connotation which can be conveyed differently through various language levels during literary translation.

A corpus-based study on imagery and symbolism in Goldblatt’s translation of Red Sorghum

Babel ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng-Lin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Mo Yan ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Translation Study ◽  
Key Word

Abstract Research on Goldblatt’s translation of Red Sorghum has attracted more attention in recent years after its author Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for this work. This translation study has addressed the imagery and symbolism in this classic Chinese work, an area that has yet to be investigated with the use of empirical data. The study employed the corpus-based approach, and analysed the translation of images and symbols based on a parallel translation corpus of Chapters 1 and 2 found in the text of Red Sorghum. Most important images and symbols are represented by 30 distinct nouns in the novel as successfully translated into English as a result of the translator’s adoption of a literal translation strategy. A more focused examination of a translation of the most prominent key word, sorghum, finds that the translator has faithfully adopted the imagery and symbolism techniques in the source text whenever conveying the images and symbols of sorghum across cultures. Based on the findings, this study argues that images and symbols in the source text may present themselves in the translation of novels if translators adopt a source-oriented translation strategy. Our analyses of the translation of figures of speech, namely similes, personifications and repetitions further highlight the importance of taking concert and literal translation strategies into the realm of literary translation.

Translation of English Causative Verbs into Persian: A Comparative Study of Professional Translators and Translation Trainees

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1266
Author(s):  
Naghmeh Ghasdian ◽  
Ahmad Sedighi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Causative Constructions ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Causative Construction ◽  
Persian Translation ◽  
Professional Translator ◽  
Language Pair ◽  
Causative Verbs

According to books of grammar, a causative form is an expression of an agent causing or forcing a person to perform an action. Translation of English causatives into Persian seems to be one of the biggest problems that Translation students and novice translators usually come across. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the translation strategies applied by the professional translator and translation trainees while translating English causatives into Persian. In this descriptive corpus-based study, the present researcher examined sixty causative constructions of novel Lord of The Flies by Gerald (1991) and their Persian translation by Mansouri (2003). In addition, twenty causative constructions from the novel were given to the twenty Translation students in order to analyze their Persian translations of causative constructions. Based on the finding, the professional translator has used Non-causative and Positive Implication strategies most frequently, whereas the students have used Auxiliary and Noncausative strategies most frequently. It can be concluded that there is a strategy behind every choice, and a reason behind every strategy, and translators should try their best to transfer all the components of a causative verb as well as possible, because each word or verb has its own value. The translator's mastery over the causative construction in the language pair explores throughout this study reminds us of a point of paramount significance. The main implication of this research may make the translators, at any level, better understand the English causative sentences and avoid producing translations that hinder communication between the translator and the readers.

scholarly journals Profanity and Characterization: A Study of Translation Strategies and Their Effects on The Catcher in the Rye

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Fachrina Azura ◽  
Haru Deliana Dewi ◽  
Rahayu Surtiati Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

<p><em>This paper investigates the translation strategies used in translating profanity in the novel The Catcher in the Rye and their effects on the narrator’s characterization. The purpose is to see the effects that certain translation strategies have on characterization, an important literary element. This paper will focus on Chapter 25, the penultimate chapter where the climax takes place. This paper uses statistics to examine the number of translation strategies used and the qualitative-descriptive method to examine the effects on the narrator’s characterization. The strategies will be classified based on Baker’s (2018) proposed strategies, while Nida’s (2012) argument regarding the importance of characterization will be the framework for evaluating the characterization. This paper finds that the Indonesian translator overwhelmingly used the strategies of softening and omission. This results in a significantly different characterization of the narrator, in which he becomes less irreverent and more conscious of social norms.</em></p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>characterization, literary translation, translation strategies, profanity</em></p><p>_________________________________________</p><p>DOI &gt; <a href="https://search.crossref.org/?q=10.24071%2Fjoll.2019.190205">https://doi.org/10.24071/joll.2019.190205</a></p><p><em><br /></em></p>

Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Waldo Leirós’ Spanish Translation: A comparative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 278-302
Author(s):  
Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Alternative Version ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis paper focuses on The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) and analyses the Spanish translation by Waldo Leirós (1997, 2017) through a specific selection of quotations and fragments. It follows the evolution of the narrative thematically through the different sections of the novel in order to present the reader with an overview of the novel’s plot. The poem presented in the nineteenth chapter, “Farewell to thee”, is then examined alongside the translation offered by Leirós; this is followed by a new, alternative version proposed by the author. By way of conclusion, the translator’s faithfulness and dedication to Anne Brontë’s original text is demonstrated, while certain inaccuracies, omissions and oversights are acknowledged and analysed from the perspective of literary translation studies.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Novel Translation under Feminist Translation Theory: A Case Study of the Two Chinese Versions of To the Lighthouse

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 718
Author(s):  
Qing Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Gender Consciousness

With the increasing relevance of feminism and translation studies, how to embody female discourse in translation has become an important issue in feminist translation and in reflecting the translator’s subjectivity. Based on the feminist translation theory, this study will explore how female translators use translation strategies and methods to highlight female discourse through a comparative analysis of the two Chinese versions of To the Lighthouse, aiming to reveal the differences between female’s translation and male’s as a result of their gender consciousness, thus bringing beneficial inspiration to translation studies and translation work.

scholarly journals Landscape in Literary Translation: A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Lahiani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Communicative Function

Translating concepts of setting can be challenging when their cultural, historical, and geographic contexts are remote from the translator’s experience. Landscape is an essential factor that reveals a great deal of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, which is distant in place, historical framework, and literary tradition from its translators. This article examines the importance of a translator’s awareness of the communicative function of source text references to landscape to adopt appropriate translation strategies. The article presents a case study of a verse line alongside a corpus of nineteen English and French translations. The source text, the Mu‘allaqa of Imru’ al-Qays, names three mountains in Arabia, and space and distance are core themes in the verse line. Comparison is both synchronic and diachronic: at the same time that every translation is compared to the source text, it is also compared to other translations. Prose translations are also examined separately from verse translations, with cross-references in both directions. The translators who adopted source-text-oriented strategies missed communicative clues regarding the setting. However, those who endorsed target-text oriented strategies produced effective and adequate translation.

A comparative study of Chinese and Western aesthetics in translation aesthetics

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110052
Author(s):  
Yuhan Zhao ◽  
Feng Li
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Aesthetic Ideas ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Two Sides

Although literary translation and aesthetics belong to different categories, they are inextricably linked. No matter what kind of language is the target of literary translation, it will be branded with relevant aesthetic thoughts to a great extent. This phenomenon can be seen everywhere in the field of literary translation in the East and the West. There are similarities between Chinese and Western aesthetics, for example, their origins are related to philosophy, and they are inseparable from literary aesthetics; there are also differences certainly, such as different psychological origins, different characteristics of development track, different attention to beauty, different methodology and so on. Through the comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between the two sides in aesthetic ideas, this paper aims to enhance its guiding role in translation practice.

scholarly journals Retranslations of Faulkner’s Sanctuary in Turkish Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gülsüm Canlı ◽  
Ayşe Banu Karadağ
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Version ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
Translational Process

This study is based on a comparative analysis of Turkish translations of Sanctuary (1931) by William Faulkner and aims to review the assumptions of literary translation by Antoine Berman’s “retranslation hypothesis” and “deforming tendencies”. The novel was exposed to an obligatory rewriting process by the editor and was reworded by Faulkner who acted as a self-translator to make the original version acceptable. The rewritten version, which can be regarded as an intralingual translation, became the source text for interlingual translations. The novel was first translated by Ender Gürol as Kutsal Sığınak (1961); then by Özar Sunar as Lekeli Günler (1967) and finally by Necla Aytür as Tapınak (2007). Among Faulkner’s fifteen books which have been translated into Turkish thus far, Sanctuary is the only one with three translations in total. The translational process will be described to understand the rationale behind translators’ decisions within the context of translation studies.

scholarly journals Indonesian Dishes in the English Target Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud ◽  
Taufik Ampera ◽  
Inu Isnaeni Sidiq
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Process Performance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Word Level ◽  
The World ◽  
One To One

This article discusses how Indonesian dishes in an Indonesian source novel are translated into the English target novel. The ingredients of the dishes may be universal as they can be found in any other dishes all over the world but the names given to the dishes can be very unique. This uniqueness in Translation Studies may lead to a case of untranslatability as it has no direct equivalence or no one-to-one equivalence known as non-equivalence. For this non-equivalence case Baker proposes 8 translation strategies under the name of translation strategy for non-equivalence at word level used by professional translators.  What strategies are used in translating the Indonesian dishes based on Baker’s taxonomy and what semantic components are involved in the English equivalences are the objectives of this research. Using a mixed method; descriptive, contrastive, qualitative methods, the phenomena found in the source novel and in the target novel are compared, then documented into a description just the way they are, then analyzed to be identified according to the objectives of the research. The results show that not all translation strategies are used in translating the Indonesian dishes in the novel and the semantic components involved in the English equivalences are mostly ingredients then followed by process, performance, and taste. 

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on English and Chinese Kinship Terms and Their Translation Strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1237
Author(s):  
Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Translation Methods ◽  
Chinese And English

As an important part of addressing forms, kinship terms are frequently used in our daily life. Both Chinese and English languages have their unique cultural background, which determines the significant differences between English and Chinese kinship systems. This paper first makes a comparative analysis and a systematic induction of the English and Chinese kinship terms, then reveal the causes that the differences between the two kinship systems result from, and finally attempts to explores three translation methods of Chinese and English kinship terms, which will attach much more significance to cross-cultural communication as well.

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