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The purpose of this study is to analyze subjectivity in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare based on the semiotics analysis steps compiled by Öztürk Kasar (2009) in the framework of semiotics of translation and evaluate four Turkish translations of the contexts with "non-subjects" in light of semiotics of translation. To this end, the contexts with "non-subjects", determined according to the "Theory of Instances" by Jean-Claude Coquet (1997; 2007), were further categorized based on "Typology of Non-subjects" adopted and compiled by Öztürk Kasar (2017) for semiotics of translation analysis. The components influential on the instances in contexts with non-subjects were determined based on Coquet's (in M.M., 2012; 2017) categorization of components. "Systematics of Designficative Tendencies in Translation" by Öztürk Kasar (in Öztürk Kasar and Tuna, 2015) was adopted for translation evaluation of the contexts with non-subjects. The findings of the translation evaluation showed that while the signs pointing to the non-subject state of the instances were preserved in certain contexts in the translated texts, it was not an infrequent condition that the signs implying the non-subject state of the instances were not transferred into the translated texts, with designificative tendencies coming to the fore. Semiotics of translation is a text analysis model rather than translation criticism, and it sheds light on literary translation for professional and potential literary translators. As posited by M.M.M. (2009), semiotics of translation could be to the benefit of readers and translators in discourse level; translators and editors in inter-discourse level; scholars in translation studies in meta-discourse level. Designificative tendencies are not something to be evaded by literary translators all the time, but rather they might be instrumental in guiding literary translators to overcome the pitfalls and traps in the meaning universe of literary texts at times.

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