Application of Newmark’s strategies to the translation of culture- specific items in Boofe koor and Dash Akol

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Acknowledgments …………………….……………………………..iv

Abstract………………………………………………………………..v

Table of contents………………………………………………….….vi

List of tables…………………………………………………………ix

List of abbreviations……………………………………………..……x

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Introduction……………………………………………………….1

1.2. Statement of the problem…………………………………………4

1.3. Objective of the study……………………………………………5

1.4. Research Questions…………………………………………..…..6

1.5. Significance of the study…………………………………………6

16. Theoretical framework……………………………………………7

1.7. Hypotheses………………………………………………………..8

1.8. Definition of key terms………………………..…………………9

1.9. The scope and Delimitation of the study……………..…………10

CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE

2.1. Translation studies………………………………………………12

2.2. Culture…………………………………………………..………22

2.2.1. Culture and language…………………………….………26

2.2.2. Culture and Translation………………………………….29

2.2.3. ‘Cultural Turn’ in Translation studies……………………31

2.3. Culture – Specific Items (CSIs)………………… ……….. ……34

2.4. Cultural Categories………………………………………………38

2.4.1. Newmark’s Categorization of CSIs………………………..38

2.4.2. Pavlovic’s Categorization CSIs……………………………..45

2.4.3. Thriveni’s Categorization of CSIs………………….……49

2.5. Translation Strategies……………………………………………51

2.6. Translation Strategies of CSIs……………………………..……53

2.6.1. Vinay and Darbelnet’s views on translation strategies of CSIs……………………………………………………….……53

 2.6.2. Newmark’s views on translation strategies of CSIs…….55

2.6.3. Baker’s views on translation strategies of CSIs…………..60

CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY

3.1. Description of the type of Research……………………….……64

3.2. Corpus the study…………………………………………………64

3.3. Instruments…………………………………………………..….68

3.4. Procedures……………………………………………………….68

3.5. Data collection……………………………………….…………69

3.6. Data analysis……………………………………………………70

CHAPTER FOUR: DATA COLLECTION AND DATA ANALYSIS

4.1. Examples of CSIs………………………………………….……72

4.2. Tables of data……………………………………………..……92

CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION

5.1. Introduction…………………………………………..…………99

5.2. Restatement of the problem………………………………..…..100

5.3. Research findings……………………………………..……….102

5.4. Suggestions for further studies…………………………………104

References……………………………………………….…………105

List of tables

Table 4.1(Strategies proposed by Newmark)……………….. … …..93

Table 4.2(Danesh ‘s translation of CSIs in Dash Akol‘s short story…94

Table 4.3(Costello’s translation of CSIs in the Blind Owl’s short story………………………………………………………………….96

Table 5.1(frequency of strategies)………………… …..…………..102

Table 5.2(the frequency of each strategy used by each translator stated by percentage)…… …………………………………………………102