Aug 2026· Dynamics of the Romance and Germanic Languages: Trends and Innovations· pp. 153-159· 0 citations· 1 references
Abstract
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 from the source language to the target language: domestication or foreignisation. The paper follows the techniques and strategies for transposing culturemes from the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak into Romanian: direct transfer, semantic equivalence, cultural adaptation, generalization, annotation, explicitation, omission. In the treatment of culturemes, the translator should be guided by the care of not producing a heterogeneous target text.
The translation of nursery rhymes is not just about transfer of words from one language into the other, it also includes the ways to handle differences between the source and target culture. In English nursery rhymes there are elements that are specific to the source text’s culture and they can be strange for the Urdu...
Isha Masood, Javed Iqbal, Faiza Bajwa· Journal of Arts and Linguist...· 0 citations
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the problems encountered by professional and novice translators in the process of translating a Korean literary text into English. Translations of eighteen sentences selected from Son Won-pyung’s novel “Almond”, produced by four participants, were examined on the basis of M...
Makhbuba Allamova· The Journal of Interdiscipli...· 0 citations
This study investigates the strategies of cultural translation employed in the English adaptation of Urun Kuhzod's Tajik short story "The Mother of the House" (Очаи Бачаҳо), applying Peter Newmark's theoretical framework of cultural typologies and translation procedures. The study employs a descriptive qualitative rese...
Rafiqov Faizullokhuja· Journal of Language, Literat...· 0 citations
This article presents a case study of the translation of Gulshan Aliyeva-Kangarli’s Sufism from Azerbaijani into English. It examines the principal linguistic, terminological, cultural, and literary challenges encountered during the translation process, including Sufi and Islamic terminology, Arabic and Persian borrowi...
Fiala Beylar Abdullayeva· Turuk Academic and Research...· 0 citations
This article elaborates the Tri-Leveled Translation Approach as a systematic and operational model for the translation or retranslation of Chinese classics, with the Tao Te Ching as its illustrative case. The model is motivated by six interrelated causes: the long history and profound cultural accumulation of Chinese c...
Chuan-Yin Zheng· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
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