Applying critical discourse analysis in the translation of Maghrebian literature
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2018/09/0021/000354Keywords:
Critical discourse analysis, ideology, translationAbstract
Within the frames of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper examines the several factors that exert influence upon translating texts both as a process and a product. More precisely, it investigates the notion of ideology with particular use of critical discourse analysis. The purpose is to see the degree to which the translator’s socio-cultural and ideological backgrounds have impacts on translations. It also aims to shed light on the potential relationship between language (as a discourse) and ideology in translated texts. This work is a mixed-methods study whose corpus is a combination of two literary Maghribi texts along with their translated counterparts. Through a two-level analysis (the macro-level and the micro-level), data analysis aims to find out the dissimilarity between the proportions of the information obtained from the target texts (TTs) and their equivalents in the source texts (STs). The results obtained in this research prove that the application of CDA to the STs and TTs helps researchers become aware of the genre conventions, as well as the social and situational context of both the ST and TT, and outlines the formation of power and ideological relations on the text-linguistic level.
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