This article analyzes the techniques employed in translating culturally specific terms from the Nepali novel Basain into its English translation, Mountain Painted with Turmeric. The research identifies the strategies adopted by the translator to mediate between source text and target text focusing on the translation of culture specific words. Through textual analysis of ecological, material, social, organizational, and gestural terms, the article examines the application of various translation procedures including transference, neutralization, functional equivalence, adaptation, and deletion. It has analyzed the terms with proposive sampling in data collection and has thematic anlysis. The findings reveal that the employed techniques occasionally distort the original meaning in the translated text. Moreover, the study emphasizes the inherent challenges in cultural translation and emphasizes the necessity for nuanced, context-sensitive approaches to preserve the integrity of sociocultural meaning in translation.
This article explores the translation of Russian cultural realia in Leo Tolstoy’s "Anna Karenina"and their interpretation in English versions. The study focuses on four major categories of cultural realia: everyday life, social hierarchy, religious practices, and symbolic elements. The central problem lies in the fact...
A. Vlasova· Bulletin of Science and Prac...· 0 citations
This article examines the linguistic and stylistic challenges encountered in translating modernist prose from English into Uzbek, with particular reference to Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. The study analyzes the difficulties involved in rendering the author’s stream of consciousn...
Yulduz Xonto‘rayeva· Ijtimoiy-gumanitar sohada il...· 0 citations
This study examines the translation procedures of cultural elements in the Malay poetry collection Takkan Hilang by Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim and its English translation by Harry Aveling. The main focus of the study is to identify the categories of cultural elements present in the source text and to analyse the translation...
N. Yahaya, A. F. bin Yusof· International journal of res...· 0 citations
This study aims to analyze the transformation of cultural meaning in the translation of Lontar Yusuf into Indonesian to understand the changes in meaning that occur in the process of translating traditional texts rich in cultural and religious values. The research data were sourced from Lontar Yusuf Banyuwangi: Pegon T...
Umu Nafisatul Munawaroh, Hasan Busri, Sri Wahyuni· Jurnal Sastra Indonesia· 0 citations
Cultural elements reflect the history, civilization and common knowledge shared by members of a community. In literary translation, the translator is faced with an essential choice: report, translate or adapt cultural references? In other words, the translator must choose the global strategy for transposing culturemes...
I. Druţă· Dynamics of the Romance and...· 0 citations
