Translating dialects Thread poster: Sonia Christofi
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Hello.
I'm getting ready to start my thesis in how to translate a dialect and I was wondering if anyone had a bibliography to suggest...
Thank you
Really appreciated
| | | | | chose a region | Nov 10, 2010 |
maybe you should start thinking about which country's dialects are u going to work with.
Also you may want to focus your question a little bit: "translating dialects" sounds pretty wide to me for a thesis.
If you have any question I'll be glad to help you, specially with French dialects stuff and bibliography in whcih I focused my own thesis.
cheers!
| | | | Tim Drayton 
Cyprus
Local time: 21:20
Turkish to English
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This topic certainly has a great deal of relevance for Cyprus!
| | | | | Sociolinguistics | Nov 10, 2010 |
I suspect from the perspective of translation theory/studies & bibliography, the issue is really that of "creating" or "finding" "equivalances" and the functional purpose of the translation, so depending on the slant you choose to take, the more general translation theories should be helpful. However, you probably want to take a look at sociolinguistics, as the use of a dialect deals with cultural perspectives on language/class/sex/race, etc., such when you choose to speak in a dialect, its plac... See more I suspect from the perspective of translation theory/studies & bibliography, the issue is really that of "creating" or "finding" "equivalances" and the functional purpose of the translation, so depending on the slant you choose to take, the more general translation theories should be helpful. However, you probably want to take a look at sociolinguistics, as the use of a dialect deals with cultural perspectives on language/class/sex/race, etc., such when you choose to speak in a dialect, its place in the social hierarchy of a community/country, etc. and also whether or not and how far the issue overlaps with diglossia (for some languages) and accent? I agree with Iciar that the topic is really broad but hopefully if you look into this, and perhaps text linguistics too, it will give you a better idea/focus, for example if the purpose of the text is oral performance (theatre) or to make a specific social/political point, etc.
Good luck, sounds interesting ▲ Collapse
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| other thoughts | Nov 10, 2010 |
You should also consider the type of text.
A literary text that contains dialectal forms of a certain language would be, in my opinion, a problem for the translator. The translator can not ignore the dialectal forms in this case.
Dialects may be ignored for official communication. I worked in Cyprus for more than one year and aspects of the Cypriot dialect are used even in TV shows related to politics, for example. In such a case dialect should be ignored (IMHO).
| | | | | explanations | Nov 10, 2010 |
Thank you all for your replies.
I didn't want to get into details and analyse my thesis in depth, but...
First of all you must keep in mind that I will begin in September. So I need to have everything ready by April.
That gives me 6 months to prepare.
My main focus will of course will be the Cypriot dialect.
I am planning to give a Sociolinguistical approach and analyse the phenomenon of diglossia in Cyprus but I my goal is not to analyse the dialect itself even tho... See more Thank you all for your replies.
I didn't want to get into details and analyse my thesis in depth, but...
First of all you must keep in mind that I will begin in September. So I need to have everything ready by April.
That gives me 6 months to prepare.
My main focus will of course will be the Cypriot dialect.
I am planning to give a Sociolinguistical approach and analyse the phenomenon of diglossia in Cyprus but I my goal is not to analyse the dialect itself even thought I did think about it. What I want to do is see the process a translator goes through when translating written scripts of a dialect. We all know that dialects are not official languages. But even so, one can find poetry, novels etc written in a dialect. How will a translator work when he has in front of him a text (either literate or not) in order to translate it? Will he ignore the dialect and just translate it as a language? I don't agree with that approach. I believe in saving the character of the source text in the maximum. So how does one work?
That's what I want to see. ▲ Collapse
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