Abstract:

Skopos theory, one of the most important theories in translation studies, examines the process of translation. This theory focuses particularly on the purpose of translation. In skopos theory, translation is a human activity and each activity primarily has a purpose. Translation process begins with a starting point and ends with an ending point. For this process, the main thing and the aim is to get to the target point. So, the theory of skopos is completely target-oriented. It focuses on target-oriented texts and the function of these texts on target culture. Target-oriented texts that address an audience are quite functional texts and they aim to give them information on any subject or explain something. One of those types of text is news. News (or announcements) gives certain information on current topics to the public through mass media. These types of text spread information through the press, television, radio and the Internet. In this context, the translation of news, being a type of informative text, must provide this informative function in the target language and culture. Thus, we must translate them in a target-oriented way and give functionally the sense, effect of the source text and its message in target culture as much as possible. In terms of skopos theory, there isn’t an analysis of the translation of news on Covid-19, which is a fairly current and global health issue. This makes it possible to produce a study on the reflection of the theory of skopos in translations of this type of text. The objective of this study is to show with an inductive method that it is possible to observe the process of the theory of skopos in translations of sanitary news with the examples of translation from French to Turkish of news (announcements) on the Covid-19 taken from the website of Consulate General of France.

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