Translating taboo and ideology : a socio-cognitive diachronic critical discourse analysis framework for translations of English and American novels
This thesis explores the possibility of juxtaposing Critical Discourse Analysis with Descriptive-Explanatory Translation Studies and contextualized literary Stylistics by relating translated literary texts as product and process to prevailing ideologies and power relations in the target society and also to its censorship laws. Two major sets of arguments are posed in this regard. Firstly, Translation Studies needs expansion which can be achieved by the integration of a critical social theory. Secondly, literary texts, whether original or translated, can offer as much information about the relationship between ideology, power relations and discourse as non-literary texts. Based upon the intrinsic relationship of prevailing ideologies, power relations and censorship laws to translators' choices, this thesis tests the data, which consist of Turkish translations of taboos in translated literary texts, to see whether it might help researchers relate translations to constraining factors of social origin, and thus make discoveries about the situation of translation in a particular society. A socio-cognitive theoretical framework with an emphasis on the dialectical relationship between society and discourse is employed
Isbuga Erel, Reyhan Funda
Translating taboo and ideology : a socio-cognitive diachronic critical discourse analysis framework for translations of English and American novels. This thesis explores the possibility of juxtaposing Critical Discourse Analysis with Descriptive-Explanatory Translation Studies and contextualized literary Stylistics by relating translated literary texts as product and process to prevailing ideologies and power relations in the target society and also to its censorship laws. Two major sets of arguments are posed in this regard. Firstly, Translation Studies needs expansion which can be achieved by the integration of a critical social theory. Secondly, literary texts, whether original or translated, can offer as much information about the relationship between ideology, power relations and discourse as non-literary texts. Based upon the intrinsic relationship of prevailing ideologies, power relations and censorship laws to translators' choices, this thesis tests the data, which consist of Turkish translations of taboos in translated literary texts, to see whether it might help researchers relate translations to constraining factors of social origin, and thus make discoveries about the situation of translation in a particular society. A socio-cognitive theoretical framework with an emphasis on the dialectical relationship between society and discourse is employed
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