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“Translational turn” in the cultural studies and “the cultural turn” in the translation studies show that the term “culture” is very important in the literary translation. The key terms of a foreign culture play a great role in literary translation because of the intercultural dialogue. The translator must pay attention to the clash of cultural terms in the literary texts and in the translation. The literary translation helps to understand between cultures if it carefully handles the cultural terms of a foreign culture which is translated into a target culture. The cultural terms which belong to Turkish culture are to be understood by the readers of the target culture. As readers, we must read the literary texts with a “thick description” and we hope the literary texts help intercultural dialogue if they are translated into a foreign culture. The translator must see the cultural terms diachronically and synchronically.
Literaturwissenschaft und Translation : die Notwendigkeit translationswissenschaftlicher Theorien
(2010)
Translation activity has been the analyzing object of various disciplines, particularly Linguistics and Literature for centuries. The attempts of these disciplines to explain translation activity have always been inadequate. Holmes has drawn the attention to these problems by his paper which he has delivered at a congress in 1972 and emphasized the necessity of a new discipline. In the light of these developments, translation studies emerged in 70's and brought along many discussions. These discussions have revolved around the attempts of literature and lingusitics to explain translation activity. Starting question of our study is as follows; "Do the literary theories adequate enough to justify translation activities?" As an answer to our prompting question, this study aims to verify that literary theories are inadequate to explain and justify translation activity.
Translation is an intercultural and literary process. The intertextuality of each literary translation depends on the difference of the cultural context. It is important to respect a double difference, on the one hand the poetic and on the other hand the cultural variance. This is the result of many theories on current translations. George Steiner and Peter Utz are of the opinion that we can compare translations with interpretations of fiction because both are not completed and time-dependent. The process of interpretation of fiction as well as the translation are both parts of a hermeneutic process. The only difference is that the translation represents the meaning of the original of the fiction whereas the interpretation creates and documents a reading process.
1 rue de Médicis - vom Balkon der im 5. Stock dieser Pariser Adresse gelegenen Wohnung des Schriftstellers und Übersetzers Maurice Betz eröffnete sich der Blick auf den Jardin du Luxembourg, links zwischen den Bäumen erahnte man die Fontaine Médicis, geradeaus blickte man auf den Palais, rechts auf das hintere Portal des Théâtre de l'Odéon. Während der ersten Monate des Jahres 1925 ging Rilke jeden Vormittag aus dem in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft gelegenen Hotel Foyot, 33 rue de Tournon, zu dieser Wohnung, um dort gemeinsam mit Betz an der Übersetzung der "Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" zu arbeiten. An diesem Ort entstand ein zentrales Dokument des produktiven Austauschs zwischen den beiden Autoren und ihren Sprachwelten, das die Rilke-Rezeption in Frankreich wesentlich mitbestimmten sollte. [...] Es ist durchaus lohnend, über das bisher in dieser Reihe zu Maurice Betz Gesagte hinaus einen eingehenderen Blick auf sein Leben, seine Tätigkeit und seinen Austausch mit Rilke zu werfen.
Nazım Hikmet’s fairy tale “Cloud in Love” (Sevdalı Bulut) enjoys a world-wide popularity: It has been already translated into many languages, has been filmed and staged several times. This even confirms the thesis of the poet that the fairy tale would appeal to every nation, every age and every cultural level. This article aims to examine Hikmet’s fairy tales under the aspect of the interculturality in his intersemiotic and interlingual translations. First, Hikmet’s perception of fairy tales will be studied, from which some clues are to be gained about the translations of his work. Afterwards, examples from intersemiotic translations of this fairy tale will be indicated. Finally, the German translation of this work will be analyzed, taking into account the transmission of cultural and stylistic elements.
Redewendung
(2010)
In den folgenden Überlegungen geht es hauptsächlich um ein unpubliziertes Konvolut Rilkes von 26 Seiten mit dem Titel "Remarques à la suite de la traduction des 'Cahiers de M. L. Brigge'", das sich in der Stadtbibliothek von Colmar befindet. 'Unpubliziert' muss allerdings insofern eingeschränkt werden, als Auszüge daraus von Maurice Betz in seinem Erinnerungsbuch "Rilke vivant. Souvenirs, lettres, entretiens" (erschienen 1937 bei Emile-Paul frères in Paris, deutsch unter dem Titel "Rilke in Frankreich. Erinnerungen, Briefe, Dokumente" 1938 bei Reichner in Wien) verwendet wurden. Hier ist nicht der Ort, im Detail auf die Zitiermethode von Betz einzugehen. Es steht aber außer Zweifel, dass Betz bewusst die oft sehr kritischen Passagen von Rilkes Bemerkungen zur Übersetzung des Malte unterdrückt hat. Es geht ihm dabei offensichtlich um die Rechtfertigung seiner Übersetzung.
In Turkey currently there are about 20 Translation Studies departments with over 4000 students in six different languages. All these departments generally include a final project in their curriculum in the last two semesters, where the students have to prove their translation competence. In the literature and at the web sites of the Translation Studies departments in Turkey and abroad there is very little teaching material about these final projects while these projects are invaluable for the prospective translators. Therefore these projects have to be arranged as very functional, effective and representative of the translation reality. While the connection to the real translation market is assured, the students have to demonstrate their translation competence. Thus all Translation Studies departments have to consider these conditions and to organize this course under the real conditions of translation market and taking into consideration translation theory as well.
This study concentrates on the problems of subtitling, mainly focusing on compensating strategies in the context of its restrictions with respect to time and space. With the help of a corpus analysis, what kind of information is condensed in the subtitling and whether these reductions have a role on the reception of the film will be analysed with regard to the confrontation of 1119 translating segments.
Even if translation has a long tradition within the conveyance of foreign languages, there has been a vehement discussion on its role since the 1970s – at least with respect to some languages, such as English. In the context of German as a foreign language this topic has been discussed only to some extent. With this in mind, the following article aims to examine the role of translation in the field of the German as a foreign language with specific focus on the advantages and limitations associated with its conveyance and the resultant consequences.