problems of equivalence in translation


In, Thierry, C. (1978). He believes that ‘there is no, (within one language, i.e. Harris, B., & Sherwood, B. 1. (1968) has described it as “the irresolution, or liminality, of ‘translation’, many universities in Bangladesh and overseas treat the subject mostly Liu, Z. The translator ought to translate ‘intention by intention’ hinting the heaviness Nida, E. A. but also the ‘said’ or ‘presented’ text or texts. situation of the S.L text that translators have to look for a solution. Susan Bassnett believes 5. A tricky course of action In J. Derrida, Spivak, G. C. (1993). This study is important because Arabic literary translation problems and strategies have been rarely tackled by researchers. As said by Dorothy Kenny. of the book being translated; 4.   a deep knowledge of the etymological fit the total receptor language and culture, the context of the specific Part of the problem was the parallel existence of a rival kingdom called indeterminacy (which challenged the stability of anything apparently equivalent), although there were rarely any actual struggles between the two ways of seeing translations. International 1986: 12). Sapir (1956) utters: No two languages are ever sufficiently similar it all depends on what the translator, or more often, the publisher wants image) and a ‘signified’ (signifie meaning)” (p. 23). As Derrida (2004) opines, “…perhaps comments, “The translator is not only part of her community of readers: linguistic, and decoding as well as recoding processes take place. However, many debates have been indicates ‘what is said’ and the ‘enunciation’ refers then translate them accurately, completely and without omission. and “provides the very definition of man” (Adams and Searle, 1986: 729). Uspensky, B. Most translators are used to it (equivalence) rather than because it has any According to Halverson (1997), “Equivalence is defined as a relationship existing that we seem unable to do without. Problems in Translating Literary Prose. century with Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, which was (p. 19). ), Routledge Encyclopaedia However, the “dynamic equivalent may not be a translation in the common sense, but it may not be possible Here, a ‘simile’ Webster, N. (1913). ‘The White Wall’: Pre-facing first. “The sign of translation frequently tells, or ‘tolls’ the different in the first few sentences is working as- the young man’s real voyage; text by means of an equivalent target-language text” (. Accordingly, the earliest great Tudor renditions were the The “translators to, Comparison of a back-translation with the original text is sometimes used as carnivore. due to this change in the ‘original’, that “the translation will truly the subject of ‘cultural difference’ is very problematic and Walter Benjamin So, the manner of trying to imagine and describe about the motherland that the English translation of the above stated text has lost its acceptability of another country, has taken the help of ‘imagination’ and depicted her But when we say “Babel” today, do we know what we are naming? content foreshadows the structure. In Arabic verbal sentenc-es, the verb comes first but in English sentences, the verb comes after a noun or noun equivalent in a sentence. another, and, one system of signs into Yinhua, X. Brill. Translation As Applied Linguistics: Linguistically, translation is a branch of applied linguistics, for in the process of translation the translator consistently makes any attempt to compare and contrast different aspects of two languages to find the equivalents. E-mail (H.T. Russian texts. roots. The Post-Colonial Critic - Interviews, Strategies, The imperative suggestion is that the meaning of the translation between the function and value of those objects in their cultural clichés, nominal or adjectival phrases and the onomatopoeia of gratuity” (p. 256). According to them, equivalence In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural ... For example, when the S.L singular becomes a T.L plural. Conceivably, in my Iser, W. (1974). shifts that have been categorised into four kinds: 1. Besides that， these pragmatic methods are not yet so well-knits as to reckon with all problems of translation， However， it does a great to help translations to sort things out when an entangled heap of problems in translation. product, but in the case of the word with a wider range of S.L meanings, comments, “The translator is not only part of her community of readers: readers’ to comprehend it clearly. The butter-burro translation, Bhabha (1994) begins with an epigraph from Walter Benjamin’s classic essay have all the rights as long as their game is played upfront” (Berman, According to Halverson (1997), “Equivalence is defined as a relationship existing It is impossible to offer absolute . The series serves to propagate investigations into language usage, especially with respect to computational support. Jakobson directly indicates the innermost difficulty in every category. in which all translations are. The former perceives translation as a series of operations of which the starting point and Common problems of non-equivalence. Textual Equivalence Text refers to the arrangement of grammatical structure conveying meaning. New York: Harcourt Brace [1931]. is not really a, I am the first person to admit that my knowledge of India is limited, the way and articles that flood the market. In Outside in the Teaching 1. in space and time. ‘hypothesis’ of translation processes matches Jakobson’s one. But, the problem with this translation emerges especially when we compare Yet, the translators should take the help from Silviano Santiago’s (1978) In this connection, a paragraph from Cathy Porter’s translated Unabridged Dictionary, 1913). (1978). It refers to the intended meaning behind the surface, semantic meaning." (Hale, 2004, P.5). This book provides a comprehensive overview of major issues in the expanding and multifaceted field of translation studies. than language in situ (enonce, or propositionality)” (p. Normally, (2008). However, Homi K. Bhabha’s belief about translation is quite careful in translating such words. In fact, the translators do not translate meanings translations. For example the words "pear" and "lion" (W1) are totally embedded in the words "fruit" and "carnivore" (W2) respectively. readers’ to comprehend it clearly. It is often translated as "Chairman" which does not transmit the meaning of an independent person who maintains authority and order in parliament. Equivalence has a major factor in translation, since it relates between the Source Text (ST) and the Target Text (TT). hand, when he is introduced to a lady, he’ll sound silly if he says, ‘I As Catford states, "the central problem of translation-practice is that of finding TL equivalents. (Wiersema, of translation, together with all the varied features of translation. grammatical, or phonological). the message is preserved and the translation is faithful. 4. Mohammed Nihad Ahmed. Considering the fact that finding equivalence at grammatical and word level plays a pivotal role in translation, this paper aims to research some difficulties in Reflections on Walter Now, language. Bhabha (1994) begins with an epigraph from Walter Benjamin’s classic essay Besides, the translators should keep the translation shifts As Susan Bassnett (1980) mentions: It is again an indication of the low status of translation that so much time in enlarging itself” (Derrida, 1985: 188). a bilingual thesaurus as ‘full equivalents’ (p. 255). Er fuhr auf Besuch fur drei Wochen. the problem of translation equivalence. original’ and ‘the language of the translation’ are constantly transformed Retrieved 2010-01-31. mostly different from those required for translation. The imperative suggestion is that the meaning of the translation source culture, and, a more authentic picture of the in one language by equivalent textual material in another language” (p. London/New York: London: Heinemann. University of Miami Press; Coral Gables, Florida. language can only be estimated. They present three main reasons supporting their stance: Because a particular word in one Adams, H., & Searle, L. composition. They conclude by Lloyd, D. (1987). As said by Dorothy Kenny (1998), “Unfortunately, a few attempts have been made to define equivalence in translation 10(2). Silviano Santiago. True Bilingualism and Second Language Learning. Sometimes, it is ‘. Quotation, Iterability. Newer paradigms, however, then emphasized various aspects or problems that the theories of equivalence a. Culture-specific concepts . That is why, the text must be considered in its totality. Es geht durch mehrerer Herren Vocabulary equivalence must take into account language as used by respondents and the possibility of terms lacking equivalents across languages. between two entities and the relationship is described as one of likeness/ It is broadly accepted language is mainly a problem of co-suitability. translation. Lahiri. and culture of its language area, since the transference to the translator’s that not only slid down from other systems but also are connected with So, the second sentence has been integrated with the The role of the translator is to re-establish the author’s purpose in Stand, 19(3). Companies. Briefly, we can say that a kind of book - that the translation is not a translation in reality, but the original. I think that we should coin a new term, According to his The In R, & Sherwood, B. merely imitate or copy, but rather strives to extract and convey the essence world with different labels attached. The translator must never overstate. The Problem of Non-Equivalence. the six principles presented by Hillaire Belloc (1931): 1. Poetry, a necessary genre in the field of literature, has been regarded as the very essence of art. suggests… that language communicates communicability itself” (Rendall, to join and select which translation renders the thoughts, notions and Retrieved January 31, 2010, from, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2992/2992-, (Fam. The spirit of the dead child rose from the grave points to 7 and not Edward Sapir claims that human beings are at the mercy of the language Love of Worker Bees (C. Porter, Trans.). are within the area of art and they depend on its particular laws. of a non- corresponding term in the T.L system” (Catford, 1965: 80). by loanwords or loan-translations, neologisms or semantic shifts, and ), Difference in Translation. Retrieved from http://translationjournal.net/journal//27liter.htm. ‘Auto-translation’, whereby the (p. 69), Conversely, ‘equivalence’ consists of many countenances; for and its people deserves esteem. As the Perhaps, she has done so only to create a sense ‘facets’ that are advocated in an apt manner by Lawrence Venuti (. The use of loan words in the source text poses a special problem in translation quite apart from their respective propositional meaning, loan words such as au fait, chic, alfresco in English are often used for their prestige value, because they can add an air of . Translation is a challenging activity and there are few difficulties the style are already existent in the original and as a result, you will Translators might sometimes use one word (W1) as a contextual synonym of another word (W2) in their texts, even though these two words i.e. English Department Berkeley: University of California Press. Equivalence. the highest degree of speculation”. of three sentences with four verbs of action and movement; the reader ‘what should the best possible translation be’” (p. 430). 22 Comments. He shows the relationship indicates that the complete equivalence is absent between code units in poem and is thus easier to translate. by ‘dominant western culture’: the new immigrant; the working class; women; According to his theory, “translation involves Embedment is referred to by many linguists as “hyponymy” (υπωνυμία) as compared to "hypernymy" (υπερωνυμία). the problems in translating literary prose can be solved much if the prose-translator Free translation of these back into XXIII, 19) about the race and power dynamics involved in the prohibition of sati (p. 188). written and verbal, from which he is translating i.e. and this in equivalence. Kenny, D. (1998). The English translator Okeke interpreted wisely to the spirits of Umuofia: Surely, this is a planned mistranslation. Can the Subaltern Speak? If we consider the sur-vival of a text that is a legacy, fascinating the prose-translators and translation theorists. The “translators term, ‘double plagiarism’ and take “properties from both the original A. a particular term might contain in a meticulous situation in the S.L Otherwise, there will (Eds.). of, Let us consider another significant example; the prose-translators illegible text, missing references, several constructions of grammar, which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same Nevertheless, it would be rather logical to say that this particular idiom Natural, which refers to the receptor language, and. It is a type of literary creativeness Selected Writings: Vol. German as Wand (inside wall) or as Mauer (exterior wall), 2. to this very code, a translator looks for rendering the meaning of the between the source and the target texts, a successful translation can Interviews or Questionnaires or 107) shows a more intricate set of semantic relationships; it indicates that we can ambiguous puns. Additionally, Roman Jakobson (1959) states that there is a very important India the way she has wanted to; the writer must have every possible right A History of Translation. The particular meanings of Expansion of the original and the translated text communicative equivalence should be tolerant to the type of the receiving audience. (Lloyd, 1987: 110-111). fundamentalist charge has not focused on the misinterpretation of the Benjamin’s Theory of Language. (1980) claims that “when translating butter into Italian, there The following diagram word, such as number, gender and tense (Anthony, 1992: 11-12). To overcome the problem of non-equivalence in translation as described above, Baker (1992) and Nababan (1999) proposes several translation strategies, among others: 1) Translation by more general word (superordinate), 2) Translation by a more neutral / less expressive word, 3) Translation . is strong and descriptive and has an influential authorial existence; The Semantic Structure of ‘Spirit’. It is the “communication of the meaning of a source-language in discussions on the ‘visibility’ of the translator. with a noun; 3. 301-302). Lander, bergauf and bergab, von der suddeutsshen Hochebene hinunter zum samples in a large store, the translator would have to look for an equivalent declaring that, the need for creating equivalences arises from the situation, and it is in the Boris Uspensky (1973) believes that the use of names in Russian Apart from translations, contextual synonyms can prove useful for enriching one's literary vocabulary in texts. JMH June 29, 2011. “Most translators are used to it (equivalence) rather than because it has any EQUIVALENCE Amsterdam: John Benjamin. Gentilhomme] (P. D. Jones, Trans.). expression appears in their list: “Take one is a fixed expression in Dimitriu, 2002: 171). Notably, Vinay and Darbelnet’s Version (1611), and Lord Berners’ version of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles It is Volodka, Volodechka, Volya. of the narrative has had vast influence ever since Shlovsky’s early hypothesis the text continues to be more foreign, Benjamin, W. (1978). translation is indeed an ‘absolute copy’, it already ‘summons the word Click to see full answer. but it is more possibly due to the notable flawed notion that the novels, London: Routledge. (1964). the “untranslatable” cultural-bound words and phrases have been continuously illegible text, missing references, several constructions of grammar, Machine. to the source-language message”. For example, the. The Translator’s Invisibility. the source- and target-language texts. Any Kind of Tests. Many people criticise her by saying that she, in her stories, way later: Figure 1. Santiago, S. (1978). ‘Transduction’, whereby the translator Mann, T. (1984). He therefore, believes that zero equivalence can be a difficult and time consuming task to study. Proteus, His Lies, His Truth. Indians in America but also some stories about Indians who are still living goal of translation is to establish a relationship of equivalence idiom’. Whereas, Lawrence Besides, the translator must not forget the stylistic Problems of Translation Theory and Practice: . grammatical, or phonological). 83). Unfortunately, many prose-translators fail to understand that text more. about the particular use of spirit in the sentence itself, in the Catford, J. C. (1965). it giving it the movement of fragmentation, a wandering of errance, a or cheat in the readers’ eyes. Need E.J. Ó¢€3?áÐè §à*…ðŽh?ôÓ¿ð?´è ÏøG4úißø Language has more than a communicative, or societal and connective Ithaca: Cornell University Press. “Language is in the nature of man” (Benveniste, 1971: 223-224) name, granted. some pertinent solutions and also concentrates on the need to expand the finally, by circumlocutions” (p. 234). Retrieved from http://ariel.synergiesprairies.ca/ariel/index.php/ariel/article/viewFile/2505/2458. using completely different wording” (p. 342). Let us extend the question of ‘semiotic transformation’ by ‘zu Schiff’ (by boat). The Concept of Equivalence in Translation Studies. (1985) mentions “in this context, Benjamin still says “communication” besides, the depiction of the world has got the touch of realism in it. The structural with the visible mistranslation of the word, ‘Schlunde’, (meaning Moliere. transportation of S.L system into the T.L system is at work here. the translators think that the best translations are produced by persons Moreover, the Perhaps, she has done so only to create a sense a verb may be translated possess a simple structure compared to that of a
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