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The Study on the Place of Translated Self-help Literature within the Turkish Literary Polysystem between the Years 2000-2010
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)Self-help literature is one of the popular genres in modern times. It is possible to see both original and translated self-help books in bookstores and libraries. Firstly imported from the USA, self-help books are now read ... -
Translating The Impossible: A Comparative Analysis of George Perec's La Disparition
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)Translation is the transfer of cultures, ideas and different stylistic features. Therefore, translating a literary source text is already a challenging task. Translating the specific style of the literary source text renders ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective on Censorship in Translation: A case Study of the Turkish Translations of Grey Wolf
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This thesis aims at exploring both cognitive (e.g. ideological) and socio-cultural factors underlying censorship in translation, particularly in translations of the taboo books. To this end, Grey Wolf Mustafa Kemal An ... -
Translation as a Norm-breaking Activity: A Case-study on the Turkish Translation of Marjorie Housepian Dobkin’sSmyrna 1922 The Destruction of a City
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the norm-breaking dimension of translation which is considered by various scholars (Toury 1995, Brownlie 1999, Schäffner 1999, Chesterman 2000, and the like) to be primarily ... -
Translation of Culture-Specific Items: Trainspotting in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)Translation of Culture-Specific Items: Trainspotting in TurkishLiterature represents languages and cultures of societies; therefore, literary works encompasssocio-cultural references unique to those societies. Thus, literary ... -
Translating Experimental Literature: A Stylistic Analysis of the Turkish Translation of Cut-Ups in W. S. Burroughs’ The Soft Machine
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)Experimental literary works enable fertile translation discussions due to their rich and observable stylistic peculiarities. Such works provide rich material to revisit the relation between the concepts of style and ... -
A Hermeneutic Approach to The English Translation of Bilge Karasu’s Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi and Uzun Sürmüş Bir Günün Akşamı’
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)Translation, as a new field of scholarly research offers rich grounds for investigation. Especially, literary translation is a rich source in this sense. The theories that have been proposed so far analyze translation as ... -
A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Turkish Translation of Humorous Culture-Specific Itemsin Family Guy
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Humor is one of the most distinctive aspects of human beings. It plays a significant role in the context of intercultural communication. However verbally expressed humor which is primarily carried by language so as to ... -
Consistency in the Evaluation Methods of Machine Translation Quality
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Machine translation is the general term for the programs concerning the automatic translation with or without human assistance. It is also an interdisciplinary research area with different questions yet to be answered. One ... -
A Case Study on The Two Turkish Translations of Paul Auster’s City of Glass
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)The aim of this study is to analyze how the elements that may create difficulties to thetranslator are translated in the two different translations of Paul Auster’s novel City ofGlass and to determine the strategies ... -
Applicability of Translation Criticism Approaches to Different Text Types
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Translation criticism aims at evaluating the translated work from an objective perspective. However, translations were initially reviewed unsystematically and translation criticism was confined to subjectivity. The main ... -
The Role of Translation in Constructing the Institutional Discourse in Journalism: The Case of the BBC Turkish Service
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Communication plays a key role in today’s technology and information age. Communication involves sharing information and messages across time and space, which is realized through language. Today media and press institutions ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Two Turkish Translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart within the Framework of Paul Bandia’s Approach to Postcolonial Translation
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)This thesis aims to investigate the role of the translation in the culture transfer of the colonized societies in the postcolonial texts. To achieve this primary aim, the study focuses on the prominent example of African ... -
An analysis of the english translations of Erzurum Folk Riddles in the light of raymond van den broeck’s translation criticism model
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Translation criticism has been a field of interest of many scholars in recent years. However, it is observed that certain standards for translation criticism have not been set yet. The purpose of this thesis is to draw ... -
A Bermanian Stylistic Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Its Turkish Translation
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Style composes the gist of literary works, as it is an inseparable element that forms a coherent meaning in texts. The style in the literary texts is mainly achieved with the usage of various linguistic variants. The ... -
Translation and Adaptation of English Song Lyrics into Turkish between 1965 and 1980: Analysis within the Framework of Polysystem Theory andSong Translation Strategies
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Song translation is a broader term used for the translations and adaptations of foreign song lyrics into target language preserving the rhythm and melody of the original song, which is a newly emerging subject field handled ... -
Translation Of Taboo Language: The Strategies Employed In Three Turkish Translations Of Lady Chatterley'S Lover
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Linguistic taboos present an important challenge for the translators and censoring the use of language occupies a particular place in the translation of taboo expressions. In addition to the linguistic constraints derived ... -
An Analysıs Of The Turkısh Translatıon Of Obscene Words In Jeanette Wınterson S Wrıtten On The Body And Sexıng The Cherry In The Lıght Of Relevance Theory And Norm Theory
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Word choice plays a substantial role in the style of the author because it is specifically chosen by the author among many other linguistic options. In this sense, word choices, are important elements to be considered ... -
Creativity In Translation: Analysis Of Turkish Translations Of Wordplays, Symbols And Codes In Dan Brown'S Books
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)The present study aims to analyze Turkish translations of language-specific expressions in Dan Brown’s famous popular novels in order to underline the necessity for carrying out analyses on popular literary translations ... -
Reverse Orientalism In The Turkish Translations Of Turkish Embassy Letters Of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)Edward Said’s concept of “orientalism” is mainly grounded on the argument that the Orient is falsely represented by the Occident. Coined by Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, reverse orientalism, on the other hand, reveals a discourse ...
