Rendering Cultural Information in Translation: English – Ukrainian Direction

Slavova, Liudmyla; Borysenko, Natalia

doi:10.32837/2312-3192-2018-11-167-173

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“…A Cultural Linguistics analysis as the one proposed here provides an overarching, coherent multidisciplinary approach in Translation Studies since it helps us to relate a series of translation problems to cultural conceptualisations underlying language features in a systematic way, as demonstrated in this study. The approach proposed here in this study, relates culturally constructed elements to their underlying cultural conceptualisations that capture all aspects of human life such as the very conceptualisations of life and death, to conceptualisations of emotion, body, religion, gender, marriage, politics and humour (Sharifian, 2017a(Sharifian, , 2017b encoded and communicated through language features that are of special importance for translators in their daily task (Slavova & Borysenko, 2018;Wilson et al, 2019). The approach proposed here provides a unified, coherent and systematic explanation of the translation problems that arise when translating between two languages that come from cultures distant and different.…”

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Applying Cultural Linguistics to Translation Studies: A New Model for Humour Translation

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Kianbakht

2020

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The present research intends to illustrate the contributions, the newly developed multidisciplinary field of research known as Cultural Linguistics can make to the Translation Studies and the translation of humour as a culturally constructed element. The study starts with explaining the aims and objectives of the research and the key concepts that constitute our model of analysis. Then, as the main objective of this study, we propose a new model for the translation of humour encompassing a typology of conceptual structures for the analysis of humour translation, a large step in Translation Studies, that contributes to the on-going research in translation theory and practice. Later on, we describe how the proposed model and its typology of conceptual structures can be applied to the analysis of examples extracted from novels in translation between English and Persian in comparative studies.

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Applying Cultural Linguistics to Translation Studies: A New Model for Humour Translation

Heydon

Kianbakht

2020

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“…These are words and word combinations, which reflect names of objects, notions, phenomena, everyday objects, characteristic features of geographical position, culture, social and historical features of the ethnic or cultural community. They encode an important part of information about the community naming historical events, objects of material culture, institutions, or prominent people absent in other societies (Slavova & Borysenko, 2018). In translation studies, lacunae are defined as cultural words, i.e., lexemes that are associated with a definite language and present difficulty in translation.…”

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Culture-Specific Information Encoded in Lacunae: The Author’s and Translators’ Strategies of Representation

Slavova

Borysenko

2021

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The present study examines the representation of Ukrainian culture-specific information in Marina Lewycka’s novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. Such information is encoded in lacunae and the author’s or translator’s task is to decode it using relevant translation strategies. The latter ones have been identified: 1) the strategy of domestication (equivalent or near equivalent translation); 2) the combination of domestication and foreignization (transliteration together with a near equivalent and descriptive translation, calque translation accompanied by descriptive translation); and 3) the strategy of foreignization (borrowing, transliteration alone or combined with calque translation). Graphic means such as inverted commas and italics are used to mark information as culture-specific for the reader. Ukrainian and Russian translations of the novel demonstrate that lacunae are rendered mostly with the help of the corresponding Ukrainian and Russian lexemes. It has been revealed that archaic forms can be substituted by modern ones, and both native and borrowed elements are employed. This paper also demonstrates that the procedures and means used in rendering Ukrainian culture-specific information in the source English and target Ukrainian and Russian texts aim at finding balance between the strategies of domestication and foreignization used in the presentation of culture-specific information.

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Rendering Cultural Information in Translation: English – Ukrainian Direction

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Applying Cultural Linguistics to Translation Studies: A New Model for Humour Translation

Applying Cultural Linguistics to Translation Studies: A New Model for Humour Translation

Culture-Specific Information Encoded in Lacunae: The Author’s and Translators’ Strategies of Representation

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