MARGARET ATWOOD’UN DAMIZLIK KIZIN ÖYKÜSÜ BAŞLIKLI ESERİNDEKİ NEOLOJİZMLERİN TÜRKÇE ÇEVİRİLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Abstract

This study investigates the neologisms in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale and the translation techniques used when rendering them into Turkish. The term neologism can be explained by new words or words with new senses. In this article, the neologisms found in the corpus are identified and later categorized according to Peter Newmark’s neologism types. Followingly, the utilized technique or techniques are described using a compilation we came up with combining a variety of translation techniques that are mainly taken from Lucía Molina and Amparo Hurtado Albir’s work. The neologism-specific translation techniques were determined and then, the data that do not fit into the categories were revealed. These non-conforming examples enabled us to detect categories that are not present in Newmark’s neologism classification. In addition to that, we detected some translation techniques which could be included in neologism translation technique compilations. From this perspective, our study tests the preferred models of neologism categorization and translation techniques in practice, and the most frequently used techniques in neologism translations were determined. Finally, the data we obtained here were compared with the results of other studies in the neologism translation literature to make our findings more concrete.