TY  - JOUR
T1  - Assessment of Functional Adequacy in Normative Business Administration Texts: A Case Study on Articles of Association (AoA) Translation Practices
TT  - Normatif İşletme (Alanı) Metinlerinin İşlev Düzlemindeki Yeterliliğinin Değerlendirilmesi: Şirket Esas Sözleşmesi Çeviri Uygulamaları Üzerine Bir Vaka Çalışması
AU  - Angı, Ayşegül
PY  - 2025
DA  - July
Y2  - 2025
DO  - 10.26650/iujts.2025.1608522
JF  - IU Journal of Translation Studies
PB  - İstanbul Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2717-6959
SP  - 260
EP  - 276
IS  - 22
LA  - en
AB  - The syllabi of the business translation courses are designed to train the students on this specific domain translation and prepare the students for the professional life. The learning outcomes also reflect the acquisition of the translation competence involving textual, domain, language, and research subcompetences. Examining different business specific genres via a translationoriented analysis and the research on such training practices may make a notable contribution to improving business translation training and eventually to specialisation in business translation. Accordingly, this descriptive study aiming at assessing the functional adequacy in the senior students’ translation performances (N=37) on a normative business genre (AoA) was conducted in one Turkish public university. Having the online course practices on the corporate finance, the participants were expected to translate a similar texteme which was divided into three parts including subordinate clauses (N=5) paraphrasing the steps of the net profit calculation and allocation. When the frequencies of intratextually and intertextually coherent renditions were analysed, it was found out that minimum 60% of the renditions were functionally adequate. The oversights like the syntagmatic sequence shifts, omissions on the phrase and clause levels signalled more training practices.
KW  - specific domain translation
KW  - business translation training
KW  - translation competence
KW  - genrespecific conventions
KW  - functional adequacy
N2  - İşletme (alanı) metinlerinin çevirisi derslerinin izlenceleri, bu özel alan çeviri eğitiminin verilmesi ve öğrencileri mesleki hayata hazırlamak üzerine tasarlanmaktadır. Öğrenme çıktıları da metin, alan, dil ve araştırma alt yetkinliklerini barındıran bir üst çeviri yetkinliğini yansıtmaktadır. İşletme alanında kullanılan farklı metin türlerinin çeviri odaklı çözümleme yaklaşımı ile incelenmesi ve bu eğitim uygulamalarına yönelik araştırmalar, işletme (alanı) metinlerinin çevirisi eğitiminin geliştirilmesi ve nihayetinde bu metinlerin çevirisinde uzmanlaşma konularında dikkat çekici bir katkı sunabilir. Bu doğrultuda, Türkiye’de bir devlet üniversitesinde son sınıf öğrencilerinin (N=37) normatif işletme metni olan Şirket Esas Sözleşmesi çeviri uygulamalarının işlev düzlemindeki yeterliliğinin ölçülmesi amacıyla betimleyici bir çalışma yürütülmüştür. Çevrimiçi derslerde şirketlerin finans işlemleri ile ilgili uygulama çalışmaları yapan katılımcılardan, net kâr hesaplanması ve dağıtımına dair üç aşamayı (kısım) açıklayan yan cümlelerden (N=5) oluşan benzer bir metinbirimi çevirmeleri istenmiştir. Metin içi ve metinler arası tutarlı ak tarımların sıklığı dikkate alındığında bu aktarımların asgari %60’nın işlev düzleminde yeterli olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Sözdizimi sıralamasında kayma, sözcük öbeği ve cümle çıkarma gibi aktarımlardaki gözden kaçan hususlar, daha fazla uygulama yapılmasına ihtiyaç duyulduğuna işaret etmiştir.
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