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In this paper, the main purpose is to examine the fictive culture-specific items (CSIs) in the The Hunger Games trilogy and what kind of translation strategies are used in their Turkish translations. As the concept of culture is essential for translation studies, analysing culture-specific items is accepted to be one the most appropriate methods of observing the translator’s approach to the text. The case study was conducted using Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy and their Turkish translations performed by Sevinç Seyla Tezcan. In line with the dystopian quality of The Hunger Games trilogy, the CSIs were sorted out to include fictive items which were invented by the author to constitute an imaginary world. They were grouped under five categories taken from Eggen’s (2016) work on The Hunger Games with the addition of allusive proper nouns (PNs). The detected items in both texts were compared to determine the strategies used by the translator. As regards to the translation strategies, two separate groups were determined for the analysis of CSIs and PNs. The list of strategies was established by putting together seven strategies offered by Baker and two direct translation procedures offered by Vinay and Darbelnet. During the labelling process, an intercoder reliability calculation was conducted. As the last step, an interview was designed to obtain relevant data in order to make a fair judgment on Tezcan’s approach to the original texts. Ultimately, the translator’s tendency either to domesticate or foreignize the text was revealed on the basis of Venuti’s (2004) theory.

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