Abstract:

This study aims to make an indicative analysis of Oscar Wilde’s “Inhappy Giant” story and to evaluate the Turkish translations of the work in the context of the ability to translate. The solution was made through the original text of the story published by the Penguen publisher in 1962. There are eight different Turkish translations of the work by Nurettin Sevin, Rıza Can, Özgü Steel, Roza Hakmen and Fatih Özgüven, Orhan Düz, Suat Ertüzün, Ibrahim Shener and Shemsettin Yeltekin, which are defined as data collection tools in the translation assessment. In the indicative analysis of the original text, the indicative analysis method was based on the methods of Greimas and Barthes, formed by the views of Coquet and eventually simplified to apply a text to be translated by Öztürk Kasar. The data obtained from this analysis for the translation assessment were also assessed based on the Translation of Öztürk Kasar's meaning disturbing trends. The findings have shown that when translating Turkish translations, the translators are often in meaningless tendencies. Those types of tendencies and their translation texts are often ranked as follows: the tendency to "disrupt meaning" (in twenty-five points), the tendency to "disrupt meaning" (in ten-five points), the tendency to "excess interpretation of meaning" (in ten-four points), the tendency to "transversation of meaning" (in eight points), the tendency to "absorb meaning" (in four points), the tendency to "disrupt meaning" (in three points) and, finally, the tendency to "disrupt meaning" in two points. As a result, it has been shown that making an indicative analysis of that work before translating a written work, or at least reading it from an indicative point of view, can be very helpful to the translation of the work in the translation process. In translations performed without the help of indicative analysis, much more meaning problems can be faced.

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