bilig-24/ Winter 2003

TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION IN TURKISH LANGUAGES

 

Prof. Dr. Mehman Musaoglu
Ankara University - TÖMER


ABSTRACT

       In this essay the common and different aspects of adaptation and translation are given. The changes and development are studied in the changes of attitudes developed in Turkish in Turkey as a result of translation made from foreign languages. It emphasizes the problems of some lexical and grammatical and literary language, which occurs regarding the changes and development mentioned. To be able to solve these problems, the suggestions intensified on Turkish and target texts are given and linguistic projects are presented. Regarding the translation and transposition of literary text between the mentioned languages, the principles of adaptation concept, have been established. In this respect, the adaptation of the Author from Turkmenistan Annaguli Nurmamet's work into Turkish language is a good adaptation example related to Turkish literary languages.


Key Words : Translation, theory of translation, adaptation, transposition, principles of adaptation, source text, target text, lexical and grammatical changes and developments, text linguistics

 

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