On the Importance of Translation and Interpretation in Sports and the Reflections of Mistranslation

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 1 - 6, 01.05.2017

Emrah Boynukara

Abstract

The aim of this
study is to present the importance of translation and interpretation in sport.
The study mainly focuses on why translation and interpretation is so
significant in sports through the explanations and actual translation and
interpretation examples. A content analysis of various translation and
interpretation examples was conducted. There are numbers concerning translation
and interpretation ranging from football to global sports events including the
World Cup and the Olympics. I tried to highlight translation and
interpretation’s crucial contribution in making sports worldwide. Several
translation and interpretation examples from different countries and languages
were analyzed under “Skopos” theory in terms of functionality of a translation
or interpretation.

Keywords

Translation, Interpretation, Skopos Theory, Sport

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