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An examination of the extent of equivalence of an author’s literary stylistic features in two Turkish translations of a short story in English

21 Kasım 2019
  • İhsan Özdemir *
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An examination of the extent of equivalence of an author’s literary stylistic features in two Turkish translations of a short story in English

Abstract

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. In this study, two Turkish translations of a short story titled The Denunciation 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. 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.

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Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Dilbilim

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

İhsan Özdemir * Bu kişi benim
0000-0001-7410-0248
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

21 Kasım 2019

Gönderilme Tarihi

6 Ekim 2019

Kabul Tarihi

20 Kasım 2019

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2019

Kaynak Göster

APA
Özdemir, İ. (2019). An examination of the extent of equivalence of an author’s literary stylistic features in two Turkish translations of a short story in English. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 517-532. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.649344

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