Abstract:

Ihsan Oktay Anar's second book "Kitab-ül Hiyel" is considered one of the postmodern and fantastic novel writers of the last periods of Turkish literature. During the translation process of such works, which contain imaginary characters, events established by historical calls, unrealistic fiction and cultural items, translators can face various translation problems. There are different methods of translation to solve such problems. Specifically in the context of cultural translations, the translation of special names is quite busy in terms of translators. In this study, Ihsan Oktay Anar’s work and English translation will be compared, the study of how special names are translated into English and the translation strategies used by the translator will be identified in the framework of the views that Eirlys Davies in (2003) presented for the translation of cultural items and special names. At the same time, the translation strategies will be addressed by the classification offered by Javier Franco Aixela (1996) for the Translation of Cultural Objects and then the main translation trend will be determined. In addition, the results of the study will be taken advantage of the two categories that Theo Hermans (1988) has proposed for the textual tasks of special names and their translation in this context. The purpose of this study is to identify in the context of cultural translation, how specific names created with Turkish-specific cultural expressions in the work have solutions to English translations. In this study, it is believed that translation mainly used translation strategies aimed at explaining the real meaning of the words in the source text and thus aimed at better understanding the text by the male reader.

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Abstract:

İhsan Oktay Anar is considered to be one of the postmodern and fantastic novel writers of the last period of Turkish literature with his second book “Kitab-ül Hiyel”. In the translation process of these works, which include imaginary characters, historical fictions and cultural elements, translators may encounter various translation problems and there are different approaches to their translation. The translation of proper names, especially in the context of cultural translation, is very challenging for translators. In this study, İhsan Oktay Anar's “Kitab-ül Hiyel” and its English translation will be compared, the translation of proper names into English will be examined and the translation strategies used by the translator within the framework of Eirlys Davies Davies' views on cultural elements and the translation of specific names will be determined. Then, the translation strategies used will be handled by Javier Franco Aixela's (1996) classification for the translation of cultural elements and main translation tendency of the translator will be determined. Theo Hermans's (1988) dual category for the translation of proper names and their translations in this context will be utilized in the conclusion part. Thus, the aim of this study is to find out how to find solutions to English translations of proper names created with cultural expressions in Turkish in the context of cultural translation. At this study, it’s thought that the translator has mostly used translation strategies, which are aimed to explain the denotative meaning of words in the source text and thus aiming the target reader to understand the text better.