Areas of relevance and procedures for translating culture-specific terms from English into Sorani Kurdish
The translation of culture-specific terms between English and Sorani Kurdish can pose significant challenges caused by major cultural differences between the two societies e.g. the legal systems, legislation and the influence of religious beliefs and social attitudes. An additional factor is that while Sorani Kurdish is spoken in the Kurdish region of Iraq, the official language of Iraq is Arabic. The aim of this study was to attempt to develop a model that would identify 'areas of relevance' and combine this with 'translation procedures' to analyse what factors may influence a translator when s/he is translating culture-specific terms. The theoretical approach of this study is largely based on Nord's (1997) multi-level functional approach to translation for the identification of 'areas of relevance' for translating culture-specific terms and on Dickins' (2012) grid of distinctions in translation procedures, which is based on an analysis of the translation strategies of Ivir (1987), Newmark (1981) and Hervey and Higgins (1992). The model was applied to an English-Kurdish parallel corpus, which comprises four texts chosen for their potentially culture-specific content and thus their ability to test the use
Mustafa, Fazil Jamal
Areas of relevance and procedures for translating culture-specific terms from English into Sorani Kurdish. The translation of culture-specific terms between English and Sorani Kurdish can pose significant challenges caused by major cultural differences between the two societies e.g. the legal systems, legislation and the influence of religious beliefs and social attitudes. An additional factor is that while Sorani Kurdish is spoken in the Kurdish region of Iraq, the official language of Iraq is Arabic. The aim of this study was to attempt to develop a model that would identify 'areas of relevance' and combine this with 'translation procedures' to analyse what factors may influence a translator when s/he is translating culture-specific terms. The theoretical approach of this study is largely based on Nord's (1997) multi-level functional approach to translation for the identification of 'areas of relevance' for translating culture-specific terms and on Dickins' (2012) grid of distinctions in translation procedures, which is based on an analysis of the translation strategies of Ivir (1987), Newmark (1981) and Hervey and Higgins (1992). The model was applied to an English-Kurdish parallel corpus, which comprises four texts chosen for their potentially culture-specific content and thus their ability to test the use
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