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A critical re-evaluation of Gideon Toury's target-oriented approach to "Translation" phenomena

Özben, R. Tunç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)

Translating and interpreting are two separate but related forms of “Translation”. Various scholars of Interpreting Studies believe that translation theories are significant in understanding the phenomena of interpreting. ...
A critical study of the Turkish translations of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and its interpretations within the Turkish theatrical system

Dinçel, Burç İdem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

This study explores the relationship between theatre criticism and theatre-translation criticism, with the purpose of challenging the tendency of Translation Studies to bypass theatre and that of Theatre Studies to attach ...
A Gender-based study of Nihal Yeğinobalı's pseudo-translation Genç Kızlar

Alt, Nil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)

In the first part of this study, the social and cultural reasons behind Nihal Yeğinobalı's novel Genç Kızlar being published as a pseudo-translation are explored based on the concept of gender. The ideas of the translation ...
A translational journey: Orhan Pamuk in english

Yılmaz, Melike. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

The purpose of the present study is to examine the factors instrumental in the translational journey of Orhan Pamuk into English. Orhan Pamuk, who has been established in Turkey as a distinct literary figure since the late ...
A Utopian journey in Turkish: from non-translation to retranslation

Elgül, Ceyda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)

This study explores the role of translation in the evolution of new contexts for foreign works. It classifies non-translation, initial translation and retranslation as the three existential forms in which translation appears ...
Absence/silence of a translation as a borderline issue: Şeytan Ayetleri (The Satanic Verses)

Yılmaz, Sevcan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

This thesis is particularly concerned with what the effects of ideology on the selection process of the translation are and how and why ideology aborts authors or texts-to-be-translated. Firstly, the significance of silence ...
An analytical study on the migration of Sartrean existentialism into Turkey through translation

Koş, Ayşenaz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

The central concern of this thesis is to explore the role played by translation when a philosophical theory moves across cultural and linguistic boundaries. The study reveals the double role of translation in this migration, ...
An ethnographic approach to news translation in Turkey

Dabancalı, Buket. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)

Although translation is a sine qua non tool for the flow of information around the world, its outstanding role tends to be neglected or underestimated by the mass media worldwide. Translation studies also fails to cover ...
Aranjman :|rewriting foreign pop songs for the Turkish cultural repertoire

Pesen, Alaz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)

The present study focuses on pop song rewrites, in other words, aranjmans in 1960's Turkey. After reviewing previous scholarly approaches to song translation, it elaborates on aranjman, in other words, imported songs on ...
Aspects of agency in the case of editor-translators in the 1990s Turkey

Ezber, Gökçen, 1978- (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)

The present study focuses on the different aspects of agrncy in translational phenımena in the case of editor translators in the 1990s Turkey. The theoretical framework of the study ia largely drawn by the recent focus on ...
Commercial translation and professional translation practitioners in the era of cognitive capitalism :|a critical analysis

Fırat, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This thesis investigates how current technological advances affect commercial translation and the working conditions of professional translation practitioners in the era of cognitive capitalism. Based on previous research, ...
Delayed for forty years :|the journey of Anayurt Oteli from Turkish into English

Telaferli Kalaycıoğlu, Yağmur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This study aims to answer the question why Fred Stark’s translation of Anayurt Oteli into English had to wait for 40 years to get published. I propose that approaching the question with Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological ...
Dr. Abdullah Cevdet’s translations (1908-1910): The making of a Westernist and materialist “culture repertoire” in a “resistant” Ottoman context

Ayluçtarhan, Sevda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

This study aims to analyze Abdullah Cevdet’s translations published within the first three years (1908-1910) of the Second Constitutional period by taking “culture-planning” aspects of them as its focal point. The present ...
Foregrounding the long-time backgrounded: Turkish translations of foregrounded heteroglossia and the postcolonial Identity of Trainspotting

Er, Recai. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

This study aims to analyze how the foregrounded aspects of the subversive novel Trainspotting (1994) are translated into Turkish. It situates the heteroglot novel Trainspotting by the Scottish author Irvine Welsh among ...
From minority writer to Turkish exemplar: How Elif Shafak was consecrated for the Arab reader

Öztürk, Sare Rabia. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

This thesis discusses the various socio-cultural developments that gave rise to the wide recognition of Elif Shafak in the Arab field of cultural production after her novel The Forty Rules of Love was published in 2012 ...
Greek fiction translated into Turkish: 1990-2006

Kayadelen, Ekaterini. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

The present study that covers the period of seventeen years, from 1990 until the end of 2006, focuses on the dynamics of fiction translations from Greek into Turkish from the point of view of translators, publishers or ...
Harry Potter in Turkey : the sociocultural framework of translation in a global context

Özkan, Merlin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

This study focuses on the sociocultural framework of translational phenomena which governs the selection, production and reception processes. In this light, the external forces effective in the creation of a translated ...
Internalization of the first eighteen couplets of Rumi’s Mesnevî through commentaries and translation In Turkish literature and culture

Ceylan, Can. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

In this study, the role of the activity of şerh (commentary) in the process of word and concept transferral from the source language to the target language by way of the practice of translation, and also its role in the ...
Journalistic translation in Turkey : a critical approach to the concepts of “Transediting” and “Journalator”

Turan, Eda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)

This study explores the role of translation in foreign news reporting and journalistic practices from a Translation Studies perspective and aims at demonstrating to what extent the most frequently employed concepts of ...
Looking through translation: the importation of Chick lit in Turkey via translations and/or rewritings

Canseven, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)

This study explores the role that translation has played in the introduction and importation of chick lit as a literary genre in the Turkish literary system. The study acknowledges chick lit as a literary genre and presents ...

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