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Title Translation as Accommodation: A Corpus-based Comparative Analysis of In the Line of Fire and Sab Se Pehle Pakistan.

Author(s) Aamir Majeed

Abstract ABSTRACT Title: Translation as Accommodation: A Corpus-based Comparative Analysis of In the Line of Fire and Sab Se Pehle Pakistan Yanow (2004) asserts that translating is not the same thing as transferring knowledge. ‘Transfer’ suggests an objectification or commodification of knowledge, extrapolated from its context, with the translator serving as a mere conduit or channel through which meanings simply pass. Critical trends in translation studies have suggested that translation practice relies not only on linguistic structure but it is also influenced by the context that constitutes extra-linguistic features along with the cultural, ideological and aesthetic norms of linguistic community and collocation patterns of target language. The influence of these factors results in the adjustments of target text according to target context. These adjustments/accommodations help a translator to make a text intelligible and original for target readers because very often target text cannot exert the required effects/meanings if the contextual factors are not considered. The adjustment/accommodation becomes more perceptible in case of wider difference in the contexts of source language and target language. This study analyzed In the Line of Fire produced in English with the aim to address the Westerners and it was translated into Urdu as Sab se Pehle Pakistan for the Pakistani readers. This study aims to explore the ways and patterns of accommodation with which the translator of In the Line of Fire adapts the target text according to the target context. The study examines the selected texts both at macro level (rhetoric, cohesion and coherence) and at micro level (syntax, vocabulary and diction). The data has been analyzed with a crafted analytical framework that shows a fusion of Van Dijk’s (2004) model of text analysis and Shi’s (2004) model of translation as accommodation. The analytical framework helps to compare the source text and the target text and also to trace the cultural, ideological, aesthetic and collocation accommodations both at macro and micro levels. The findings reveal that cultural accommodation is the leading phenomenon at both the levels whereas collocation accommodation and ideological accommodation happen after cultural accommodation at micro and at macro levels respectively. The influence of abstract factors on causing accommodation is far greater than the influence of concrete factors in causing accommodations in the selected texts.

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2018-10-25

Subject English Linguistics

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