Abstract:

How should an analysis of discourse be done in the translation of a literary novel? The subject and aim of the study are based on this problematic. The corpus we will study on is the novel of the French thinker and writer Émile Zola, a member of Naturalism (fr. Naturalisme),which is entitled “La Confession de Claude” (1909) and its Turkish tranlation “Claude’s Confessions” (2011). While examining the fictional novel of Émile Zola and its Turkish translation, a French writer and thinker who has been translated into many languages throughout the world for centuries, we must certainly consider the different dynamics that portray the literary work. Accordingly, it is necessary to evaluate the fields of 19th-century French literature, the social conditions of the period, Realism and Naturalism as well as the fields of Linguistics, Translation Studies and Philology with an interdisciplinary approach. We can also call it a multidimensional and multidirectional pragmatic approach, which requires us to evaluate together the different paradigms that we have just mentioned. We will try to examine the sample utterances selected from specific sections of this novel in the context of “language-translation” with an interdisciplinary pragmatic approach. In this direction, we will first try to select the sentences worth comparing from the source and target text and then by examining the linguistic structures based on their own context we will try to interpret them moving from sentence to utterance. On the other hand, whatever the type of translation is, we will try to show, with particular examples, how the identification of enunciation value and functioning of a number of linguistic markers that stand out in the source text during the transcription process is important while the author who is in search of equivalence, constructs the target text. From this point of view, it is unquestionably appropriate to say that one of the most difficult transfer types is the translation of literary texts, considering that such a wide range of linguistic richness also involves the fields of Stylistics and Rhetoric. Since the translation activity is regarded as an act of achieving a balanced transition between both languages and cultures, we will try to observe what type of strategies the translator uses while producing the text or the target text. We will try to determine whether this translation strategy is generally based on the source text and language, or it is focused on language and culture. In other words, we will have the opportunity to finally see whether the translator is loyal to the translation or free from translation. Our main aim is to examine a novel translated from French literature to Turkish in depth with a comparative perspective especially in the fields of Translation Studies and Linguistics In conclusion, this study is a literary translation study which aims to contribute to the related field within the frame of Applied Discourse Linguistics and Translation Studies regarding what method should be followed when a comprehensive discourse and enunciation research study is conducted.

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