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- Title
Exploring African Ecological Culture: An Analysis of African Folktales Translations in Turkish Context.
- Authors
Delibaş, Hatice; Özcan, Murat
- Abstract
African understanding of nature consists of an attitude that emphasizes connectivity of all life forms. When African folktales are examined, it is observed that the sensitive attitude of African people towards nature is also reflected in their folktales. In this sense, translation serves as an intercultural bridge to convey the views of African societies on ecology. Nevertheless, the impact of such cultural exchange that occurs through translation between Turkish and African cultures have yet to be thoroughly investigated. In this context, the purpose of this study is to raise environmental awareness in general and explore the role of translation in the transmission of African ecological culture to Turkish culture in particular. Environment is considered as a culture-specific sub-item in the research carried out as descriptive analysis. The corpus of the study consists of 87 African folktales and their Turkish translations. The data was classified according to six categories that were determined for the transfer of environment-related words and expressions and examined with "Domestication-Foreignization" approaches (Venuti,1995) based on translation strategies for cultural components (Aixela, 1996). The findings of research indicate that the "foreignization" approach was benefitted with a rate of 97% whilst "domestication" was used with a rate of 3%. This result suggests that the translators prioritize a translation approach that allows target audience to develop an understanding of the diversity of Africa's environmental structure. It is expected that the study will contribute to intercultural communication by shedding light on the significance of translation in the transmission of African eco- philosophy.
- Subjects
TURKEY; ECOLOGY; LEGENDS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Turkish Studies - Language & Literature, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 4, p2463
- ISSN
2667-5641
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7827/TurkishStudies.72629