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ETI 301 Translation Theory Neslihan Kansu-Yetkiner

ETI 301 Translation Theory Neslihan Kansu-Yetkiner. Pragmatic Translation Strategies. ON PRAGMATIC TRANSLATION STRATEGIES. Chesterman (1997) defines strategies as processes with which translators seek to conform to norms.

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ETI 301 Translation Theory Neslihan Kansu-Yetkiner

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  1. ETI 301TranslationTheoryNeslihan Kansu-Yetkiner PragmaticTranslationStrategies

  2. ON PRAGMATIC TRANSLATION STRATEGIES • Chesterman (1997) defines strategies as processes with which translators seekto conform to norms. • Pragmaticstrategies mean those that "... primarily have todo with the selection of information in the TT, a selection that is governed bythe translator's knowledge of the prospective readership of the translation“(Chesterman 1997: 107).

  3. The strategies onpragmatic level are wider entities, whereas syntactic and semantic strategiesare more detailed. • According to Chesterman (1997:107), it is particularly the pragmaticstrategies that are often the result of the translator's general strategy oftranslating the text as a whole.

  4. Pragmatic Strategy 1: Cultural Filtering This strategy includes all kinds of domestication of the text into thetarget culture, translating the source and especially its culture-specificitems in a way that they fit into the world picture of the target cultureand conform to its norms. This pragmaticstrategy could also be called adaptation, acculturation or naturalisation(see Aaltonen 1996). Cultural filtering is a term used by Juliane House(1997).

  5. A STUDY ON CULTURAL FILTERING • Textproductionacrosslanguagesthroughtranslation is not justlanguage, but socialinteractionbetweenparticipantsandculturesrepresentingdifferent, evenincompatibleworlds. • Thepresentstudyillustratessome of theways in whichculturalnormsandtheprocess of norm-constructionaremanifested in thetranslation of a specificculture-boundtopicgenerating norm-governedbehavioralpatternsdifferentthanitssourcetext.

  6. Primaryaim of thisstudy is toanalyze an adolescent-orientedpublichealthbrochuretitled “Feiten en FabelsoverhetMaagdenvlies” (FactsandFictionaboutHymen) anditsTurkishversionconvertedinto a web site (Kızlık zarı Hakkında Doğrular ve Yanlışlar) bybeingsummarized, distortedandmanipulatedtoadaptTurkishculture. • Theanalysiswill be conductedunderthelight of House’srecontextualization model (1977/1981, 1997, 2001a, 2001b, 2006, 2008) andregisteranalysiswhichshedirectlycorrelateswithcontextualinterpretation. Fictitiousstories, theircharactersandinformativetextwithinthebrochureandtheirtranslationintoTurkishwill be discussed in terms of Field, Modeand Tenor bygivingspecialemphasisupontheequivalence of ideationalandinterpersonalfunctions. .

  7. Türkçe çeviri metinde yer almayan bölüm • Yazarın Çevirisi • “Bakirelik: Peki ya sen? • Senin ne istediğin ve bakireliğin senin için ne anlama geldiği konusunda düşünmek önemlidir. Okuduğun gibi, farklı seçeneklere sahipsin. Elbette bakireliğin konusunda sen karar vereceksin. Ve seçimlerini başkalarıyla, örneğin ailenle paylaşıp paylaşmamak konusunda da belirleyici olan sensin. Ailenin, ait olduğun kültürün ve dinin kurallarına uymak isteyebilirsin. Bu kitapçıkta okuduğun gibi, bu kurallara uyan kızlar da var, kendi istediği gibi davrananlar da. Ayrıca, senin çok hoşuna giden bir birliktelik biçimi konusunda başkaları aynı fikirde olmayabilir”.

  8. Spor yapma ve tampon kullanımı • Yazarın Çevirisi • “Spor yaparak veya tampon kullanarak asla bekaretinizi kaybetmezsin. Bekaretini bir başkasıyla cinsel ilişkiye girersen kaybedersin. Olabilecek şey, örneğin tampon kullanımı nedeniyle kızlık zarının (sadece dış dokusu) biraz esnemesidir. Ama senin de bildiğin gibi kızlık zarının biraz esnemesi senin bekâretini etkilemez. Çok azıcık esnese bile senin kızlık zarına hiçbir şey olmayacaktır. Ayrıca bütün spor çeşitleri gerçekten zararsızdır. Spor yapmak hoşuna gidiyorsa, yapmayı sürdür”.

  9. Web Sitesinde Yer Alan Türkçe Metin • “Kızlık zarı spor yaparken veya tampon kullanınca yırtılabilir mi? • Hayır, hangi sporu yaparsan yap, hatta bacaklarını tamamen ayırsan da hiçbir şey olmaz. Kızlık zarı yuvarlak, dolunay veya yarım ay şeklinde ve esnek ise tampon uygun bir şekilde kullanıldığında hiçbir şey olmayabilir. Ancak kızlık zarının tipinin bilinmediği durumlarda yırtılma olasılığı olabilir. Esnek değilse, düz çizgi gibi veya elek gibi küçük deliklerden oluşmuşsa, bazı kızlar yine de emin olmak için tampon kullanmazlar”.

  10. Pragmatic Strategy 2: Explicitness Change • This strategy involves changes in the explicitness of the message andcan be divided into two according to the direction towards which thechanges are made. In case an information would not be grasped in the targetculture as it is, it may be made more or less explicit depending onwhat the translator believes the target text recipients need to be able to • understand. • A. Explicitation: The translator makes the message more explicit, • adding components explicitly in the TT which are only implicit in • the ST, i.e. gives explanations. This is a very common strategy. • B. Implicitation: The translator leaves the message more implicit • than the original. This is done when the translator expects the • readers to be able to infer the information left out

  11. Compulsory EXPLICITATION As soon as he gotup, hecalledme”. PragmaticExplicitation • “-Derviş: Eli ne vakit harama uzandı?” (Taner 2007:55). • - Derviş: Has he ever lookedwithevilintentions at anyone’swifeordaughter?” (InHalman 1983:321). .

  12. Pragmatic Strategy 3: Information Change • This strategy means either adding or omitting information in themessage. • A. Addition: Adding new (non-inferrable) information, which isconsidered relevant to the target culture recipients for theirunderstanding of the text or making the text serve its purposebetter. Whereas cultural filtering brings a text into another culturalsystem - filters its culture bound features - this strategy addsingredients to the text which enable the target text reception.

  13. B. Omission: Omitting information that is considered irrelevant forthe recipients. This information can not be inferred. Forinstance, when thetranslator can not find any other solution to translating a figures of speech,she/he omits it altogether. If in translating puns, the other meaning • is conveyed to the TT and the text translated literally, we cancategorisethis under omission, since the other meaning and thus the wholewordplay is omitted. Therefore omission may include totalomission of text or omission of single meanings.

  14. Pragmatic Strategy 4: Interpersonal Change • This strategy involves changes in the level of formality. The strategyis of importance, since wordplay is culture-bound, and cultureincludes ideas of appropriate interaction

  15. Pollyanna • “Nancy!” • “Yes, ma’am”. Nancyansweredcheerfully, but shestillcontinuedwipingthepitcher in her hand. • “Nancy”-MissPolly’svoicewasverysternnow-“whenI’mtalkingtoyou, I wishyouto stop yourworkand listen towhat I haveto say”. • Nancyflushedmiserably. She set thepitcherdown at once, withtheclothstillabout it, therebynearlytipping it over-whichdid not addto her composure. • “Yesma’am. I willma’am”, shestammered, rightingthepitcher, andturninghastily, “I wasonlykeepin on withmywork ‘causeyouespeciallytoldmethismornin’ ter hurrywithmydishes ye know”. • Her mistressfrowned. • “Thatwill do, Nancy.I did not ask forexplanations. I askedforyourattention.

  16. TurkishTranslation • “Nensi! Nensiii! • Nensi bu arada bulaşıkları yıkıyordu. Mutfaktan: • -Efendim Hanımcığım diye cevap verdi. • -Mutfak kapısından hızla içeri giren Bayan Polly: • -Nensi dedi. Seninle konuştuğum zaman elindeki işi bırak, hemen yanıma gel! • Nensi kulaklarına kadar kızardı. • -Ama Hanımcığım... Bulaşığı hemen bitirmemi siz söylemiştiniz... • Bayan Polly, kaşlarını çatarak: • -Nensi, bana karşılık verme! Kulağını aç ve beni dinle! Mutfakta işin biterbitmez, tavan arasındaki odaya çık, eski sandıkları merdive altındaki boşluğa taşı. Odayı süpür ve iyice sil. Sonra yere bir örtü ser. Anlaşıldı mı?

  17. Özgün Metin • “Nancy” called a sharpvoice. • “Y-yesma’am”, stammeredNancy, andhurriedtowardthehouse. • Çeviri Metin • -Nensi ! Nerdesin geveze kız? • Hizmetçi kız telaşla eve koşarken cevap verdi: • -Buradayım efendim, geliyorum hanımcığım!

  18. PRAGMATIC STRATEGY 5: ILLOCUTIONARY CHANGE • Locutionary act: saying something (the locution) with a certain meaning in traditional sense. This may not constitute a speech act. • Illocutionary act: the performance of an act in saying something (vs. the general act of saying something). The illocutionary force is the speaker's intent. A true 'speech act'. e.g. informing, ordering, warning, undertaking. • Perlocutionary acts: Speech acts that have an effect on the feelings, thoughts or actions of either the speaker or the listener. In other words, they seek to change minds!

  19. On Illocutionarychangesareusuallylinkedwithotherstrategies. Changingthemood of theverbfromindicativetoimperativealsoinvolves an illocutionarychangefromstatementto a command. Can youopenthedoor? Openthedoor.

  20. PRAGMATIC STRATEGY 6: COHERENCE CHANGE • Coherencechangesarerelatedwiththelogicalarrangement of theinformation in thetext. • Whyandwhen do weapplycoherencechange?

  21. PRAGMATIC STRATEGY 7:PARTIAL TRANSLATION • Thiscoversanykind of partialtranslationsuch as summarytranslation, paraphrasing, transcriptionetc.

  22. PRAGMATIC STRATEGY 8: VISIBILITY CHANGE • Itrefersto a change in thestatus of theauthorial presence orforegrounding of thetranstorial presence. Forinstance, preface, footnotes, addedglossesexplicitlydrawthereaders’ attentiontothe presence of thetranslator.

  23. PRAGMATIC STRATEGY 9: REEDITING • A termsuggestedbyStetting (1989) todesignatethatsometimesradicalreeditingthatthetranslatorshaveto do on badlywrittenoriginaltexts.

  24. PRAGMATIC STRATEGY 10: OTHER PRAGMATIC CHANGES • LAYOUT-thinkaboutbritishbusinesslettesandtheTurkishone. • DIALECT: usingBritishorAmericanEnglish. • Usingstandardlanguageor a localdialect.

  25. . • Someexercises…

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