@article{article_649344, title={An examination of the extent of equivalence of an author’s literary stylistic features in two Turkish translations of a short story in English}, journal={RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi}, pages={517–532}, year={2019}, DOI={10.29000/rumelide.649344}, author={Özdemir, İhsan}, keywords={Literary,style,equivalence,translation}, abstract={<p class="zet"> <span lang="EN-US">A distinctive personal literary style, unique to every author, is the foremost characteristic that gives a literary work its literary quality. Each style is a composite of syntactic and semantic components that evidence the literary identity of an author. In Translation Studies, style is the element that poses a great difficulty to translators with regard to establishment of equivalence between the source text and its translation. Readers who are able to read a text both in its original language and its translation are well aware of this fact as they notice the degree of losses of the stylistic features of the original text in its translated version. Thus, inaccurate or inadequate transfer of stylistic elements leads to a decrease in the flavor of the original literary work. The problem arises from the fact that sometimes in the translation process, not all elements which altogether create the exclusive style of an author, are given the due attention by translators who do not primarily intend to achieve a reasonable level of stylistic equivalence between the two texts. <a name="_Hlk21257118">In this study, two Turkish translations of a short story titled <i>The Denunciation </i> by the American author Ernest Miller Hemingway will be compared with the original text and with each other in respect to the level of stylistic equivalence. </a>The two translations and the source-text will be subjected to a descriptive stylistic analysis to highlight the necessity of equivalent transfer of stylistic features of a literary text in the translation process in order to preserve the original literary savor. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, publisher={Yakup YILMAZ}