Translation Of Title Research Articles

TITLES OF WILDE’s PROSE FICTION: TRANSLATIONS INTO RUSSIAN, POETICS, TYPOLOGY

The article examines the titles of prose fiction of the English esthete Oscar Wilde in terms of their formal and content features, the quality of translation into Russian and typological characteristics. Particular attention is paid to the title of Wilde's only novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: to the choice of words, rhythm and semantics associated with the author's aesthetic position. The titles of plays by Wilde the playwright follow the English literary tradition and quite often specify the genre, as well as focus on the name, gender, and social status of the main character. Titles of stories and fairy tales have similar characteristics. Approximately one third of all the considered titles are eponymous or literal, the second third are eponymous with an additional attributive characteristic, sometimes with ironic overtones at the level of the poetics of the title, the third part are titles in the possessive form, enhancing the nominative function. Translations of titles into Russian over a century of existence and renewal have come as close as possible to the original, maintaining its simplicity and richness.

Лингвокультурологические особенности переводных названий русских кинофильмов

The research is aimed at defining national and cultural aspects of movie titles allowing us to describe their artistic peculiarity. The article tackles the problems of equivalence and adequacy depending on the chosen method of translation, reveals special characteristics of Russian movies’ titles in translation taking into account linguistic and extralinguistic factors, and analyses the reasons for ‘incorrect’ translation, which is not in line with the director’s intention. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it analyses translations of Russian movie titles in the linguistic and cultural context for the first time. As a result, the research has defined the common problems that translators face and has suggested the ways to cope with them.

A Study on the Translation of Literary Book Titles from the Perspective of Translator’s Subjectivity—A Semi-structured Interview with Li Yao

Titles are the first stimuli that make the readers have the desire to read. However, the translation of book titles has been neglected by many scholars. Translator’s subjectivity is a new subject of translation theory research which is applied to study the embodiment of translator’s subjective initiative, passivity and egoism in the process of translation. However, the translator’s personal style, thinking activities and psychological state are rarely mentioned in the translator’s subjectivity theory. Few scholars have studied the translation of literary book titles from translator’s subjectivity. Through conducting a semi-structured interview with Li Yao, this paper aims to explore the embodiment of translator’s subjectivity in the translation of literary book titles. This paper finds that translators can exert subjective initiative in selecting translation materials and methods, but this initiative is limited by original authors, readers and publishers. This paper enriches the translator’s subjectivity theory, provides a new perspective for studying the translation of literary book titles and is beneficial to improve the status of translators.

Language Mediation in Russian Academe: Translation and Me-thodological Aspects

The paper deals with language mediation in the Russian academe, focusing specifically on its translation and methodological issues. Current target reference points set out for Russian science demand for close cooperation with international scholars, which cannot be achieved without publishing research results in top-ranking academic journals and integrating into the international academic agenda. The goal of the paper is to present a translation and methodological perspective of challenges in language mediation in the academe. The study aims to expose basic issues of Russian-to-English academic translation and provide an inventory of Russian scholars’ needs in language mediation. The research procedure relies on a complex of methods, including qualitative analysis, benchmarking, and surveying. The empirical database consists of a parallel corpus containing academic contexts totaling 2000 units and data obtained in the course of surveying the faculty of Moscow City University. Parallel contexts were sampled on the eLibrary.ru website, in Scopus and other Elsevier resources while benchmarking employed data available on the ScienceDirect platform. The findings highlighted basic issues relevant for the Russian-to-English academic translation, which include strategies employed in translation of academic journal titles, research paper titles and metadata. Survey results showed the need among academics for more postgraduate professional training programs in academic writing and speaking, language counseling services and a wider coverage of research activities by language workers. The obtained data and results can be applied in the development of Russian-to-English academic translation and editing guidelines as well as in new professional training courses for Russian researchers.

The last Qur’an from al-Andalus?

The aim of this paper is to improve upon the description of MS 2 of the Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada, and to propose a new dating based on the material analysis of the document carried out by Sonsoles González in 2014 and my subsequent rereading and translation of its colophon. If one accepts my proposed revised dating, this manuscript would be the last known Qur’an from the Iberian peninsula, copied as late as the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, in the city of Cordova. Moreover, this copy is heir to an Andalusian tradition stretching back to the theoretical treatises of Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān al-Dānī, transmitted faithfully from generation to generation through the Andalusi, Mudejar, and Morisco periods, down to the period of this manuscript. Lastly, it contains marginal notes with chapter numbers, and Latin translations of sura titles, which are clear evidence of its later use among Christian intellectual circles.

Translation of English nonfiction titles into Arabic

The study reported on here used a corpus approach to identify approaches to the translation of English nonfiction titles into Arabic. The quantitative analysis shows that the literal translation approach takes a first seat featuring 76% of the titles in the corpus. The other translation approaches include employment of related words (9%), paraphrase/explication (7%), transliteration alone (7%), and adaptation (1%). The qualitative analysis revealed that title translation can be a critical and challenging task bounded by linguistic and socio-cultural factors, as well as commercial interests and ethical considerations that the translator needs to consider. Accordingly, the researcher explored the adequacy of the Arabic renditions by examining the linguistic accuracy and the preservation of source title functions as well as the totality of meaning, with reference to the target culture. With regard to the translation of nonfiction titles in this study, the literal translation approach effectively produces linguistically intact target titles which, in most cases, are in line with the target culture. Nevertheless, translators may resort to other approaches when literal translation fails to achieve a comparable linguistic, cultural, and commercial effect in the target language.

Translation Problems of English Film Titles into German and their Translation into Indonesian

This article deals with the translation problems of English film titles into German and their translations into Indonesian. This research aims to address the translation problems of English film titles into German and their translation into Indonesian, in particular the problem of equivalence in the translation from English into German. What are the problems that have arisen and how the titles are translated, whether the transfer of cultural elements also plays an important role? The study uses a descriptive qualitative method with comparative models. The theories used to support this research are the theory of equivalence of Nida and Taber (1974), and the theory of translation methods and procedures of Newmark (1988) and Nord (1993). The data comes from Hollywood films, All Films kino.de, shown in cinemas in Germany in 2020 and 2021 (until September). A total of 159 film titles were translated into German: 111 from 2020, 48 from 2021 (until September), from 12 different film categories. The results of the study showed that there are problems with the translation of film titles that are almost inappropriate for the source language or translated quite differently. In addition, based on the analysis of the data the translation methods were found in the translation of the titles of these films, such as the literal translation, free or descriptive translation, communicative, semantic, idiomatic or faithful methods, as well as various translation methods: additions, transpotition, modulation.This research is intended to provide further insights into the field of translation of different language pairs, in particular into the translation of film titles into Indonesian

A Study on Title Translation of Chinese Films and TV Plays from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

A Study on Title Translation of Chinese Films and TV Plays from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

From Fidelity to Creativity: Translating Book Titles

Abstract The present paper reflects our interest and research in the field of marketing translation and addresses the pragmatic nature of title translation for literary works, continuing the analysis of two translation pillars we work with, as previously employed in a study we published on film title translation. As such, “fidelity” and “creativity” would frame the dynamic exchange that authenticates the linguistic particularization of titles as reader-oriented or content-oriented while making use of translation methods and procedures.

The representation of Turkey in British trade publishing after 15 July 2016. An analysis conducted on the translations from Turkish to English published in the UK

After the 2016 failed coup, the Turkish government implemented a series of measures that strongly restricted democratic freedoms in the country. This caused the UK media to propose a representation of the country in which the coup and the government reaction, together with the concepts of authoritarianism and censorship, played a central part. The present article aims to understand which role British trade publishing played in this new representation, analysing all the translations of trade titles from Turkish to English, published by British publishers in the UK, comparing the periods before (from 1 January 2012 to 15 July 2016) and after the coup (from 16 July 2016 to 31 December 2019). It tries to understand if some central socio-political events of contemporary Turkey, as the coup and its aftermath, the Kurdish issue, and Turkish intervention in the Syrian war, have had more space in the translations published in the UK after the coup. It also investigates if, after the coup, the choice of titles and authors to translate has been influenced, and if given paratextual elements (specifically, books’ descriptions on the British publishers’ websites) have shown a tendency of being linked to Turkey’s contemporary socio-political situation. It then presents an evaluation of the behaviour of British trade publishers toward the coup and their new focus on the state of Turkish democracy.

The Applications of Domestication and Foreignization in the Translation of English and Chinese Movie Titles

Taking domestication and foreignization as the research object, this paper is meant to explore the applications of domestication and foreignization in English and Chinese film titles. Firstly, it probes into the main factors that have influence on the translation of film titles, namely ways of thinking, aesthetic concepts, business values and translators’ understandings of the cultural background of the source language. Secondly, by introducing translators like Venuti, Fu Lei, Qian Zhongshu and Eugene Nida, the paper demonstrates domestication and foreignization, and then discusses them in the film titles. Finally, the paper elaborates the reasons and examples behind domestication and foreignization and a combination of the two. According to the study, the usage of domestication or foreignization is closely connected with the linguistic characteristics and cultural background of English and Chinese. Besides, these two translation strategies reinforce each other and are closely interwoven.

A Sociological Approach to Official and Non-Official Audiovisual Translators’ Practice in Iran: The Case of Movie Title Translation

ABSTRACT The present study is an initial attempt at examining the translation strategies employed by two groups of audiovisual translators in rendering movie titles from English to Persian. Adopting Bourdieu’s field theory, 206 English movie titles were compared with two Persian titles, one produced by official and the other by non-official translators. The results revealed the dominant strategies used by official and non-official audiovisual translators were significantly different. The results obtained from Chi-square, Cramer’s v, and Bonferroni correction tests showed significant differences concerning six translation strategies. The reason may lie in the translators’ habitus formed in two subfields of audiovisual translation, namely offline and online subfields.

TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY OF FRENCH NOVELS INTO INDONESIAN IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL PERIOD

This study analyzes the differences in the expression of meaning of the colonial and postcolonial French novels and the ideology of translating French novels into Indonesian during the colonial and postcolonial periods. This study uses data from French novels and their translations into Indonesian during the colonial and postcolonial periods. The data were analyzed by using descriptive-qualitative-comparative method. The results of this study show that text message expression during colonial period is indirect due to at that time The society was under the rule of the Dutch colonialists or subaltern. In post-colonial period, the community social situation changed, people were no longer afraid to express their thoughts or they were more open so that the delivery of meaning is direct. Colonial period novels have two types of foreignization ideology, namely self-names translation and setting translation, while post-colonial period novels have three types, namely self-names translation, title translation, and setting translation. The novels domestication ideology during colonial period occurred in translation of pronouns on and the translation of kinship calls, while in post-colonial period novels it occurred in pronouns on translation, kinship calls translation, and self-names translation. The different ideology in the two novels is self-names translation.

Research on Translation of English Film Titles into Chinese From the Cultural Perspective

With the increasing development of globalization, films become a significant medium of cultural exchange among different countries. The film title, a key component of a film, plays an essential role in the propaganda of the film. Therefore, the translation of the film titles is critically important. This paper discusses the functions of film titles, analyzes the basic principles of English film title translation and cultural differences between China and western countries influencing the translation of English film titles, and then puts forward some translation strategies, including literal translation and transliteration, literal translation plus explanatory words and transliteration plus explanatory words, liberal translation, and creative translation, in the hope that these strategies to some extent can give some enlightenment to translators when English film titles are translated.

Research on the Translation of Official Titles of Zizhi Tongjian with Computer Aid

With the application of computer technology in the field of translation, Chinese classic translation has become one of the focuses of translation research. The cultural information of official titles in ancient my country is very rich, which is of great significance to the study of official titles’ translation. Zizhi Tongjian is an outstanding work in Chinese history, with historical significance and high historical value. This article is based on computer technology, based on the “fusion of horizons”, “expected horizons” and “aesthetic distance” in the theory of reception aesthetics, and studies the English translation of official titles in the two translations of “Zi Zhi Tong Jian”. The official title translation methods used by different translators.

PROOFREADING CHALLENGES IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ACADEMIC ABSTRACTS AND ARTICLES

The world of contemporary science demands from every respected researcher to publish their findings in international databases, whose metrics have become a measure for the popularity and influence of scholarly journals. Hardly is it possible to build a successful academic career without publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. As part of the requirements, authors are supposed to provide abstracts of their materials in English or even translate their articles in languages that are not their native. Such a situation poses a challenge to both authors and technical editors of Bulgarian academic journals as they are expected to proofread highly specific translated texts in a language that is not their native. More often than not, those editors have neither the source text to rely on, nor the broader context of the study in cases when the articles have been written in foreign languages and thus they face a number of translation challenges. The present study focuses on some difficulties that regularly occur in the process of proofreading the English translation of academic abstracts and articles, such as ambiguity, translation of titles of literary works, and interference from the native language. The basic aim is to analyze those problems from the perspective of translation studies and eventually suggest some possible ways of coping with them.

A Study on Chinese Single-Player Video Game Title Translation from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

A Study on Chinese Single-Player Video Game Title Translation from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

ДО ПИТАННЯ ПРО ЛЕКСИЧНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ ПЕРЕКЛАДУ ЗАГОЛОВКІВ НАУКОВИХ ПРАЦЬ

The article deals with the problem of researching translation of scientific paper titles, which includes consideration of the title as a specific type of concise text and translation of scientific and technical terminology. Both aspects are relevant at the time of rapidly increasing information flows and the development of various technologies and scientific challenges. The main sources of typical translation problems are incorrect reproduction of ambiguous common vocabulary, abbreviations, "false friends of the translator", paronyms, pseudo-internationalisms, foreign words and terms, various proper names and titles. Problems of translating titles are studied in a number of linguistic works. S. Barkhudarov, G. A Weikhman, O. M. Kovalenko, D. Bieber, and others made a significant contribution to the development of the problem. But, in our opinion, there are still unresolved issues, in particular, one of them - lexical problems of title translation and means of overcoming them. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to analyze the means of translation of scientific vocabulary in the titles in order to establish their expediency or inexpediency. The main translation techniques for lexical items are calquing, addition, omission, concretization, generalization and compensation. It can be noted that this type of translation of names requires not only linguistic, but also scientific and technical, and journalistic knowledge. Knowledge and correct use of the above translation methods will help to avoid incorrect transmission of English vocabulary in the Ukrainian language, as well as distortion of the logical content. The translation of the titles of English popular science articles is a complex but interesting process, which, in principle, is a careful work on many lexical and grammatical difficulties. The title, like a mirror, reflects all the difficulties of translating English text.

A Study in Title Description and Translation Part 2 Translational Analysis of GFT Titles

This article continues the linguistic investigation into titles, which was published as Part 1 in 2020. The recent paper focuses on matters of translation within a combined framework of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) and Skopos Theory of translation. The subject matter includes the 200 titles of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (GFT) and their translation from German into British English and American English. The intended research can be taken as one way to approach the translation of titles, exemplified on a certain data set. The analysis covers in a first step linguistic approaches to those titles by checking out the techniques of translation. In a second step, the functionality of title translation in the case of the GFT titles will be briefly outlined by attempting to set an interrelationship of functions of titles and functions of translations. Lists of sources and references close-up the article.Статья трактует переводческие проблемы в рамках двух взаимосвязанных концепций — дескриптивного переводоведения (Descriptive Translation Studies — DTS) и скопос-теории перевода (Scopos Theory of Translation). Материалом для исследования послужили заглавия двухсот сказок братьев Гримм в переводе с немецкого языка на британский и американский английский. Цель автора — предложить возможный подход к переводу заголовков на достаточном массиве данных. Автор начинает с анализа переводческих приемов, использованных при передаче заглавий сказок, чтобы далее перейти к функциональности перевода заглавий на материале собрания сказок братьев Гримм и выявить взаимосвязь между функциями заголовков и функциями их переводческих аналогов.

The Aesthetic Principle in the Translation of English Movie Titles

The translation of English movie titles exerts a direct influence on the publicity of that movie. This paper attempts to explain the aesthetic principle in the translation of English movie titles by introducing the beauty of meaning, pronunciation, sentence pattern and folklore. In this paper, the importance of the aesthetic principle in translation process is emphasized through some examples of the translation of English Movie Titles. It is expected to draw the translation community’s attention.