Abstract:

Intralingual translation is the retelling of linguistic elements through other elements of the same language. How literary texts that use language as material are presented to readers in different periods shows the development of both language and literature. Examining diachronic intralingual translation practices is important in terms of the course of the literary journey of texts and readers. Felsefe-i Zenan is one of the stories in Ahmet Mithat Efendi’s collection called Letâif-i Rivâyat, which consists of thirty stories and novels published between 1870 and 1894. The work, which was republished as a facsimile and a simplified version by Sel Publishing in 2008, is one of the first texts in Turkish literature to talk about women’s rights and equality between men and women. The aim of this study, in which we examine how this text written in the 19th century was transferred to the 21st century reader in the context of interlingual translation, is to determine how intralingual translation was applied to a two-hundred-year-old text and the effects of this application on literary language. As a result of the study, it was determined that the primary aim was to understand the text while transferring the story of Felsefe-i Zenan to the 21st century reader and changes were made in the language elements accordingly. Therefore, this intralingual translation; It has been seen that the work was written by taking into account the literary concerns of the author in order to be understood by today’s readers and to achieve its purpose. In addition, it has been observed how changes in the word and supra-word structures in the literary language have occurred over a period of two centuries.

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