mahnaz norouzi
Abstract
Culture–specific items or realia refer to cultural items and native concepts in different societies, which frequently pose a great difficulty for translators. Concerning the transfer of realia from the source language into the target language, it is considered a great achievement for translators ...
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Culture–specific items or realia refer to cultural items and native concepts in different societies, which frequently pose a great difficulty for translators. Concerning the transfer of realia from the source language into the target language, it is considered a great achievement for translators to preserve much of their semantic and cultural load, not least in literary translation. The present research is based on the ideas of Sergey Vlakhov and Sider Florin, the famous Bulgarian translation theorists, who classified realia into geographic, ethnographic, sociopolitical, and military categories and proposed a number of strategies to translate them properly from one language into another. Relying on a comparative and analytical–descriptive methodology, this research studied how sociopolitical realia had been rendered in the Russian translation of Simin Daneshvar’s novel Savushun. According to the results, approximate translation–specifically the functional analogue–was found to be the most frequently used strategy while transcription, transliteration, and contextual translation had been used the least. Many cases were found in which the cultural and even semantic, linguistic, and stylistic load of the words and phrases had been lost. In general, the success of Russian translators to transfer the cultural load of sociopolitical realia in to the target text is considered relative.
Nosrat Hejazi; Roya Shirin
Abstract
Translation of movies, telecasts and any other audiovisual product is associated with special procedures and techniques which become more challengeable and complex when facing the culture and cultural elements. Due to the fact that the translator who writes the subtitles is confronted with myriads of ...
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Translation of movies, telecasts and any other audiovisual product is associated with special procedures and techniques which become more challengeable and complex when facing the culture and cultural elements. Due to the fact that the translator who writes the subtitles is confronted with myriads of technological restrictions, linguistics requirements and stylistic challenges, the question arises as follows: are subtitles essentially able to reproduce or duplicate the cultural elements? For studying the modalities of the transfer of the cultural messages from the original text (oral statements in Farsi) to the translated formats (subtitles in French) we have proposed a descriptivo-analytic approach applied on a case study. After giving a brief definition and an outlook of the concept, we move toward the possibility or impossibility of transferring cultural elements via the classification of cultural elements furnished by the Polish ethno-cultural theoreticians. Once the classifications are laid out, the analytical study of cultural elements in French subtitles of the “In the Eye of the Wind”, will be implemented. The results will lead us to the initial question: Translatability or untranslatability of cultural elements and the way by which they will be perceived by the audience.
