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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 ...
Translation and Adaptation of English Song Lyrics into Turkish between 1965 and 1980: Analysis within the Framework of Polysystem Theory and Song 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 as a Norm-breaking Activity: A Case-study on the Turkish Translation of Marjorie Housepian Dobkin’s Smyrna 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
