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Article Translation of Feminist Children’s Literature: a Writing Project(Ovidius University, 2021) Hastürkoğlu,G.Within the framework of Feminist Translation Studies, translation is considered a writing project to resist misogynistic conventions of patriarchal language and (re)create discourses with womanist perspectives. The aim of this study is to focus on the approaches adopted by a Turkish feminist translator in translating the feminist author Sheri Radford’s children’s work, Not Just Another Princess Story, written from a feminist point of view and published by a Turkish publishing house working with feminist ideology. The language used in children’s literature has an impact on children’s conceptualization of the world by creating cognitive patterns of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Bearing this in mind, this study aims to reveal the preferences of the translator in translating the fairy tale and modelling a world in which girls have control over their lives. The descriptive analysis demonstrates that when the feminist author, the feminist translator, and the feminist publishing house act together on a writing project, the translator, still somehow visible, tends to use a literal translation strategy dominantly and act faithfully in the translation process. The translator also has the purpose of reflecting the ideology of the writer rather than opting for feminist translation strategies such as subtitling, footnoting, prefacing, hijacking, and italicizing, which are frequently adopted in the translation of the non-feminist works. © 2021 Ovidius University. All rights reserved.Article Translating Culture in Children's Literature: a Case Study on the Turkish Translation of Letters From Father Christmas;(Selcuk University, 2020) Hastürkoğlu,G.Translation has been considered as a cross-cultural act comprising the transference of the cultural signs, rather than only finding the equivalence of linguistic patterns in the target text. As bridge-builders between different cultures, translators assume a very significant role in order to achieve the most appropriate cognitive, cultural, stylistic, and linguistic equivalence in the target system. This role becomes more challenging and problematic when the target audience are children. By emphasizing the difficulties in translating children's literature and the required strategies, the present study examines the Turkish translation of culturally-bound words and expressions in Tolkien's Letters From Father Christmas. Within the framework of Lawrence Venuti's concepts of domestication and foreignization, and Klingberg's scheme of cultural context adaptation categories, this study analysed the translator's strategies and decisions and discussed whether the translator successfully conveys the same impression in the target audience in a context which is foreign to the Turkish culture and children in particular. © 2020 JLLS and the Authors - Published by JLLS.Article Translating Paratextual Elements in an Ecofeminist Work(Ovidius University, 2023) Hastürkoğlu,G.This study intends to explore the concepts of ecosophy and ecolinguistic equivalence in the field of translation studies, highlighting the significance of recreating cognitively equivalent translations of ecolinguistic constituents in a target text and also adopting and transferring the author’s ecosophy in the translation process. The study specifically focuses on the paratextual elements, fulfilling crucial communicative functions, present in Buket Uzuner’s ecofeminist work, Toprak, and its English translation, Earth, to evaluate the translator’s preferences in reestablishing the author’s ecosophy at the paratextual level. The paratextual elements analyzed particularly encompass the peritexts, namely the dedication, epigraphs, foreword, footnotes, and illustrations, with a comparative analysis. The findings illustrate instances where ecolinguistic equivalence was successfully achieved, but also highlight significant losses, as certain important eco-cultural aspects were omitted by the translator in the target text. © 2023 Ovidius University. All rights reserved.Book Part Translation of Sounds for Children: an Example of a Multimodal Work(Peter Lang AG, 2023) Hastürkoğlu,G.Translation of poetry, particularly intended for children, has always been considered as one of the most problematic and challenging sub-fields of literary translation. As the texts are read aloud to young children until they achieve reading abilities, the read-aloud elements such as onomatopoeia, assonance, alliteration, rhyme, meter, intonation, and stress remain as the most attractive stylistic features in children's poetry; nevertheless, translation of these read-aloud elements, together with the pedagogical content, requires special attention by translators. To better and more effectively attract the attention of the children of this digital era, in the last years, the multimodality of children's literature has been foregrounded with the combinations of written language, visual images, and musical touch in both print and digital form, necessitating work in many layers by translators. In this framework, the main aim of this present research is to reveal some of the translation problems related to the sound elements in a multimodal children's work and the solutions the translator finds to achieve semantic and cognitive equivalence in terms of the sound effects in the Turkish translation of Wild Symphony, a sound-effective, interactive, and multimodal children's work. The results demonstrate that the multimodal nature of the original work renders additional challenges for the translator to achieve equivalence between the music in the digital environment and the musicality of the linguistic words; thus, requiring different types of translation strategies. © Peter Lang GmbH.
