scholarly journals Translation of Addressing Terms in The Novel This Earth of Mankind

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Ardik Ardianto
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
Power Play

This paper is an attempt to approach the translational stylistics, aiming at identifying the equivalence and translation procedures used in translating the Toer’s authorial style from the Indonesian language to the English language in the novel This Earth of Mankind. A translational stylistics model proposed by Malmkjær was used to contrast the target text (TT) and the source text (ST), primarily focusing on the stylistic shift. Further, as to the model of translation procedures, it specifically employed Vinay and Darbelnet’s methodology for translation. Data used in this study were addressing terms found in two novels, the Indonesian novel Bumi Manusia and its translation This Earth of Mankind. The rigorous analysis demonstrated how the translation of addressing terms involved a wide range of aspects, such as sociocultural and historical values (including social identity and social strata) and power and solidarity relation. Therefore, it raised a number of noteworthy translation issues, i.e., its equivalence, stylistic shift, and translator’s strategies. Through the increasing awareness of ‘cultural turn’ in translation studies, the concept of equivalence is supposedly perceived not as an absolute assessment but as a mediating attempt to accommodate and transpose the inferred or perceived meaning from the ST to the TT as much as possible. However, the findings are not set out to appraise the translator’s ethical attitude, considering the limited data used in this study and numerous factors that are not yet taken into account, e.g. the power play of the translation industry, and culture-mediating agenda in the receiving culture.

scholarly journals Slovak thinking on audiovisual translation and the issue of the second-hand translation of Russian documentary films

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Limited Diffusion

The paper, in its first part, outlines the Slovak research into audiovisual translation (AVT) from the 1950s up to the present, paying attention to the most important scholars as well as publications that helped to shape and establish the discipline within Slovak translation studies. It is based on the ongoing bibliographical research and the historical explanation mapping the development of AVT research in Slovakia by I. Tyšš – e.g. his publication Myslenie o audiovizuálnom preklade na Slovensku: 1952 – 2017 (Thinking on Audiovisual Translation in Slovakia: 1952 – 2017, 2018) – as well as on own findings covering the last two years. In more detail, the first part of the paper highlights that it was primarily thanks to a younger generation of translation studies scholars – especially E. Perez (née Janecová), L. Paulínyová (née Kozáková) and J. Želonka – that in 2012 the Slovak research into AVT finally became systematic. The second part of the paper is devoted to the phenomenon of the so-called second-hand translation of originally Russian audiovisual works that may be observed in Slovakia in recent years. The questionable nature of this phenomenon is stressed since the Russian language is not a language of limited diffusion and definitely not remote in relation to the Slovak cultural space. On the example of two documentary films – Под властью мусора (Held Captive by Rubbish, 2013) and Дух в движении (Spirit in Motion, 2015), the author discusses and analyses the problems that occur when translating originally Russian AV works into Slovak through the English language, i.e. the negative shifts resulting from mis-/overinterpretation of the source text, translation by omission, wrong order of dialogues, cultural specifics and incorrect transcription.

Evading Frames: D’Antin van Rooten’s Homophonic Mother Goose

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Fraser
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
French Language ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
Intellectual Climate

In 1967, American dialect actor Luis d’Antin van Rooten published his now-classic Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames, a non-organic arrangement of French-language words and phrases designed to approximate the speech sounds of Mother Goose Rhymes. Though much read and imitated, these homophonic translations have largely evaded theoretical focus. Perhaps this is because their unique structuring allows them to evade anchorage in any specific contextual frame, and to send up the researcher’s own efforts toward contextualization, which has been prescribed as the methodological “first step” in Translation Studies since the Cultural Turn. Presented here, first of all, is a search for the potential frames of the Mots d’Heures–biographical, inter-textual, cinematic. These homophonic translations, I will then contend with reference to Jean-Jacques Lecercle (1990), exist to defy these frames by collapsing together, at the phono-articulate level, the target text with its most obvious context: the English-language source. Finally, I would contend, this collapse exemplifies the phenomena of “weaning,” “trans-contextual drift,” and “remainder” argued by Derrida (1988) as the enduring property of the signifying structure. The Mots d’Heures serve, then, as a playful reminder, in an intellectual climate where context reigns, of the signifying form’s structural ascendancy over the frame, of its “iterability.”

Die größere Hoffnung in englischer Sprache. Cornelia Schaeffers Übersetzung von 1963

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Bachleitner
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
German Version ◽  
Source Text

AbstractThe English translation of Aichinger’s novel appeared in 1963, that is at a time when her writing did not yet seem appropriate for a wider public. The American translator Cornelia Schaeffer therefore adapted the novel by ›clarifying‹ opaque phrases and ›normalizing‹ unusual expressions or by simply omitting them. She tries to provide her readers with a more or less realistic story of children trying to escape from Nazi terror. Furthermore, she does not adequately render leitmotifs such as Aichinger’s variations of the word »nachweisen « referring to the notorious (Arier-)Nachweis. Sometimes it is clear that deviations from the meaning of the source text are due to the lack of the translator’s command of German. Most interesting for comparative translation studies are passages that are open to interpretation in the German version, e.g. Ellen’s striving for the »Allererste«.

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 - 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.

scholarly journals “Zahra’s Uncle, or Where Are Men in Women’s War Stories?”

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-107
Author(s):  
Michelle Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
English Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lebanese Civil War ◽  
Arabic Fiction ◽  
And Function

Abstract Scholarship in modern Arabic literary studies has treated the literature of the Lebanese Civil War, particularly novels written by women, in some depth. One of the most important texts used in both scholarship and teaching about this war is Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s Ḥikāyat Zahrah, translated as The Story of Zahra. This article focuses specifically on the one chapter in the novel narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s uncle in order to explore how the English translation dramatically changes a number of elements in the original text. It uses insights from translation studies to show how significant changes to the novel in translation produce a text that serves particular ideological functions in English, consistent with a horizon of expectations that constructs Arab women as oppressed and passive victims of war. The article analyzes specific translation choices—most notably the extensive editing out of words, sentences, and passages—to demonstrate how the character of Zahrah’s uncle is changed in English and depicted as an unsavory and abusive man with little background, context, or history that would help the reader to better understand the character’s actions and motivations. It also shows how cutting out elements of the uncle’s story serves to depoliticize the text in English, divesting it of its local political context and changing its meaning and function as a novel about the Lebanese Civil War. The article is grounded in postcolonial, feminist translation studies, especially those dealing with Arabic fiction, to argue that the English-language novel The Story of Zahra functions within an ideological field that recycles stereotypes and tropes about Arab women. It will propose that the translation changes here depict Arab men against Arab women, rather than in relation to them, and subordinate the analysis of politics and communal relations to a more individual and individualized story of one exceptional woman.

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 Translating Postcolonial English: The Italian Translation of D. Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Stage Version

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 229-241
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Zurru
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Italian Translation ◽  
The World

In postcolonial writing the English language is often intentionally appropriated: it ceases to represent the vehicle of expression of ‘Englishness’ only and becomes the means of communication of a wider part of the world. Therefore, many strategies are used in postcolonial works as a means of cultural assertion on the part of the writers. Such strategies, however, are extremely difficult to convey in languages which are not directly concerned with issues such as postcolonial resistance to colonial control in literature, as in the case of Italian. Using as a case study the only Italian translation of Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Stage Version, I will analyse in this paper a number of strategies employed in the Source Text (ST), concurrently analysing the difficulties related to their translation into Italian. Besides the tools provided by stylistics, structural grammar, translation studies and postcolonial studies, the frameworks of ethnostylistics and translational stylistics are particularly useful in the scrutiny of this text.

scholarly journals Specificity of the use of aphorisms in the novel "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
S. O. Shekhavtsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
The Novel ◽  
General Significance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
Dorian Gray ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Pragmatic Attitude

The article deals with the study of the concept of «aphorism», the identification of essential features of the concept of aphorism and the definition of the specifics of the use of aphorisms in the novel «The Portrait of Dorian Gray» by Oscar Wilde. An analysis of the studies of leading national and foreign linguists who studied the specifics of aphorisms showed that the essential features of aphorism: briefness, depth of thought, informative brevity, a high degree of generalization (general significance), completeness of thought, truthfulness (truthfulness), imagery (expressiveness, expressiveness) originality, didacticity, authorship, accuracy, sharpness of form, paradox, wit, novelty, communicative clarity. It has been proven that the English-language aphorism is characterized by a wide range of pragmatic attitudes: statement, summarizing, pairing, reasoning, reservations or threat, exposure or reproach, complaints, self-justification, self-deprecation, justification, reassurance, motivation, advice, cognition ect. Pragmatic attitudes in English-language aphorisms are realized with the help of a wide range of linguo-stylistic means. Based on our research, we have determined the specifics of the use of aphorisms in the novel «The Portrait of Dorian Gray» by Oscar Wilde. We found that English-language aphorisms contain a pragmatic attitude of humiliation and self-deprecation, which are used very limitedly in the novel «The Picture of Dorian Gray» by Oscar Wilde. Aphorisms with a pragmatic attitude of justification and self-justification are used much more widely. According to our research, we have proved that the most common are aphorisms containing a pragmatic attitude of criticism.

scholarly journals The Variation of Image in Huang Jizhong’s Chinese translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Jiaying Guo
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Cultural Turn

In the 1980s, the cultural turn appeared in translation studies, which brought translation studies a great opportunity to draw nutrients from different disciplines. Narratology and Imagology take part in translation studies, which offers hope for the cultural turn in translation studies. Metalepsis is a term in Narratology that Genett defines that any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe(or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse (as in Cortazar), produces an effect of strangeness that is either comical (when, as in Sterne or Diderot, it is presented in a joking tone) or fantastic. This paper contrasts Uncle Tom’s Cabin with its translation Tang Mu Da Bo De Xiao Wu by Huang Jizhong in order to explore the variation of the image of African American based on lexicon and Metalepsis, in the hope of finding out the reason for variation of the image. The variation exists in translations so that the target readers could misunderstand the image in the source text. As for translators, attaching much importance to translating the source language's image should be caught first. The cliché and narrative strategies in the source text could be highly recognized.

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