Delisle vinay and darbelnet first proposed seven methods or procedures loan, calque. A translation study focusing on the translation of. Translation procedures are methods applied by translators when they formulate an equivalence for the purpose of transferring elements of meaning from the source text st to the target text tt. Introducing a chinese perspective on translation shifts a.
Vinay and darbelnet were two french linguists, whose interest in translation was sparked as they were driving through francophone canada. On the most general plane, they suggest a division into, on the one hand, direct translation, and, on the other hand, oblique translation. Introducing a chinese perspective on translation shifts. Adaptation is similar to equivalence in the way that the translator seeks to render the sl into the tl whilst ensuring it is just as relevant and meaningful as the original was. Vinay and darbelnet s translation procedures operate exclusively on three linguistic levels. Semantic scholar profile for jean darbelnet, with 26 highly influential citations and 6 scientific research papers. The analysis in section 3 will be based on the model of translation strategies put forth by vinay and darbelnet. Translation has been practised for thousands of years. In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, wordforword, or rootforroot translation. In the subsequent sections, each of these topics will be considered. Translation technical procedures in the compared stylistics. Translation theory is usually addressed as if languages alone were at stake. The study is set up on the basis of communication theory in general, and draws upon various linguistic theories and.
Translation strategies, vinay and darbelnet s model, direct translation, oblique translation, men in the sun. Vinay and darbelnet proposed seven methods or procedures, they are. Vinay and darbelnets translation procedures operate exclusively on three linguistic levels. The translation oriented contrastive grammatical and stylistic analyses of the two languages are extensively exemplified by expressions, phrases and texts. Vinay and darbelnet s concept of explicitation murtisari 2011, p. For a literary translator, understanding the style of the source text and being able to recreate similar stylistic effects in the target text are essential. A methodology for translation volume 11 of linguistic and literary studies in eastern europe. This is a draft version of a paper to be published in new trends in translation studies. In their comparative stylistic analysis of french and english, vinay. An analysis of the translation strategies used to translate, from. Vinay and darbelnet view that equivalenceoriented translation as a procedure which replicates the same situation as in the original, whilst using completely different wording. A comparative study of modulation in english translations. Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization.
Pdf can equivalence theoretically explain terminology. They were perplexed by the oddities they observed on the dual language road signs in this bilingual region. According to vinay and darbelnet, translator can choose from two methods of translating, namely direct of literal translation and indirect translation oblique. An analytical study of the process of translation with. The data were analyzed by using miles and huberman. The paper draws on theory and empirical research from the fields of translation studies and legal translation, focusing, more specifically, on. May 14, 2014 the fifth of vinay and darbelnet s procedures is modulation. We take it for granted that the appearance and the existence of translation was the result of the diversification of languages and the need of people to.
A textbook of translation peter newmark shanghai foreign language education press a textbook of. Today were going to get a little theoreticalafter all, the blog of a translation agency should also venture into the drylands of translation theory. When literal translation is not possible because of lexical and syntactical differences between the two languages, oblique translation is used. As venuti 2001 states, from vinay and darbelnet s 1958 point of view, translators can select two main methods of translating which are called. Dec 31, 2014 moreover, the meaning has been kept as close as possible to the semantic and syntactic structures of the original.
Equivalence translation involves the use of two languages. A comparative study of the strategies employed in the old. Introduction the naming of different ways of solving translation problems constitutes a small european tradition that has spawned versions for languages beyond europe. Direct literal translation discusses three possible strategies. An application of vinay and darbelnet s translation model to the english translation of ghassan kanafanis novel men in the sun. Vinay and darbelnet first proposed seven methods or procedures loan, calque. In translational shift approach, all aspects of vinay and darbelnets model were applicable on the tt. The most complex of vinay and darbelnets translation procedures is the final one, adaptation. There seems to be some similarity between vinay and darbelnets theory of translation procedures and jakobsons theory of translation. A romancelanguage strand can be traced from the work of the swiss linguist charles bally 1905 through vinay and darbelnet. A comparative study of the strategies employed in the old man. While traditional linguistic studies had developed comparative methods comparative linguistics, chiefly to demonstrate family relations between cognate languages, or to illustrate the historical developments of one or more languages, modern contrastive linguistics intends to show in what ways the two respective languages differ, in order to help in the solution of practical problems.
Vinay and darbelnet translation procedures pdf free. Vinay and darbelnet s model vinay and darbelnet 2008 carried out a comparative stylistic analysis of french and english, noticing the differences between the languages and identified two general translation strategies. Onegin in english 6 jeanpaul vinay and jean darbelnet 84 a methodology for translation translated by juan c. A classical model and one which has had a very wide impact is the vinay and darbelnet model. Abstract the present study aimed at exploring vinay and darbelnet s translation model in the translation of ghassan kanafanis novel men in the.
Pdf vinay and darbelnet and the politics of translation. Vinay and darbelnet hit the road one day in the mid 1950s, jeanpaul vinay and jean darbelnet were driving from new york to montreal. However, equivalence is viewed in various lenses and is defined and applied differently by key translation theorists. There seems to be some similarity between vinay and darbelnet s theory of translation procedures and jakobsons theory of translation. Pdf on jan 1, 1997, adriane marie salm and others published vinay, j. She makes specific reference to vinay and darbelnet s use of parallel texts as model translations p. These include comparative literature, computer science, history, linguistics, philology, philosophy. Delisle vinay and darbelnet first proposed seven methods or procedures in 1973. More than one procedure can be seen in one translation, and some translations may result from a cluster of. Benjamins translation library btl volume 11 comparative stylistics of french and english. According to vinay and darbelnet, a literal translation can only be applied with languages which are extremely close in cultural terms.
Equivalence theory as interpreted by vinay and darbelnet. Equivalence is therefore the ideal method when the translator dealing with proverbs, idioms, cliches, nominal or adjectival phrases and the onomatopoeia of animal. Translation procedures used in translating maitreya. The translation conforms to vinay and darbelnets model of translation shift approach. Explaining explicitation anthony pym intercultural studies group universitat rovira i virgili tarragona, spain version 2. Vinay and darbelnet and the politics of translation solutions.
A methodology for translation volume 11 of benjamins translation library comparative stylistics of french and english. Usually this is called a literal translation or metaphrase. Vinay and darbelnet free download as powerpoint presentation. Comparative stylistics is thus intended to make these concepts more accessible to american readers. The lingua file looks at the seminal work of linguistic translation theorists vinay and darbelnet and their seven translation procedures. Apr 30, 2012 vinay and darbelnet view that equivalenceoriented translation as a procedure which replicates the same situation as in the original, whilst using completely different wording. Translating and interpreting if the book has a unifying element, it is the desire to be useful to the translator, its. Comparative stylistics of french and english a methodology for translation p. Vinay and darbelnet s 1 9582000 taxonomy of translation procedur es used to deal with incompatibilities between sl and tl structures distinguishes two major methods of translation. This means a wordforword translation, achieving a text in the target language which is as correct as it is idiomatic. Vinay and darbelnet have contributed to translation in the sense that their study reveals many of the structural differences between the two languages, but as comparative linguists, they do not fully account for translation as a particular form of interpersonal communication where the translators associate words with ideas. Other translation strategies found were schjoldagers 2008 direct transfer and bakers 1992 use of. Explicitation in legal translation a study of spanishinto. Vinay and darbelnet background vinay and darbelnet were two french linguists, whose interest in translation was sparked as they were driving through francophone canada.
References to this occupation goes back to the first traces of translation which date from 3000 bc 1. Modulation refers to rendering the tt from a different point of view to that of the st. The translation oriented contrastive grammatical and stylistic analyses of the. This study deals with the investigation of translation procedures used in the. A comparative study of three english translations of yasin. The authors hope that the findings of the research may provide a set of data for enriching shiftbased studies with a chinese perspective. Second, the selected translation procedures models by the vinay and darbelnet 19581995, newmark 1981, 1988 and schreiber 1993, 1998. He writes that, while translation methods relate to whole texts, translation procedures are used for sentences and the smaller units of language. Both theories stress the fact that, whenever a linguistic approach is no longer suitable to carry out a translation, the translator can rely on other procedures such as loantranslations, neologisms and the like. The library provides a forum for a variety of approaches which may. According to their classification, translation procedures were classified into two method covering seven procedures.
Vinay and darbelnet translation techniques revisited 499 01. The first classification of translation techniques that had a clear methodological purpose was presented by vinay and darbelnet in nur, 2008. Vinay and darbelnet and the politics of translation solutions tinet. An application of vinay and darbelnets translation model. Borrowing calque literal translation transposition modulation equivalence adaptation 3. Alimam mohammad ibn saud islamic university, college of languages and translation, saudi arabia. The case of vinay and darbelnet mohammad ali kharmandar islamic azad. Vinay and darbelnet consider this procedure to be necessary when the results of the former procedures would produce an awkwardsounding translation, despite it being grammatically, syntactically, and lexically correct. However, vinay and darbelnet themselves attribute the origin of comparative stylistics not to malblanc but to the swiss linguist charles bally, who, they say 19581972. Vinay and darbelnets stylistics thereby stays clear of translations. Translation procedures in contrast to translation strategies. In contrast to most studies on transaltion, this study is devoted to analysing the process of translation rather than to a comparative analysis of two languages.
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