Diyalekti çevirmek: Toni Morrison'ın Tar Baby (Katran Bebek) ve Nadine Gordimer'in July's People (July'ın İnsanları) başlıklı romanlarının İlknur Özdemir tarafından yapılan Türkçe çevirileri üzerine bir vaka çalışması

This thesis aims to explore the nonstandard linguistic features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and South African Black English (SABE) in the novels by Toni Morrison and Nadine Gordimer. It also gives insights about the translations of the dialects used in the novels by focusing on the role of the translator, İlknur Özdemir, during the translation process. Katran Bebek, the Turkish translation of Morrison's Tar Baby, and July'ın İnsanları, the Turkish translation of Gordimer's July's People, are used as a case study in my study. Gideon Toury's Translational Norms and Textual Analysis serve as a significant methodological framework for Özdemir's Turkish translation of the novels. Furthermore, the theories of Edward Said, Gayatri C. Spivak and Homi Bhabha, the use of dialect in postcolonial literature as well as in translation are adopted in the theoretical framework of the thesis. Known as the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Morrison and Gordimer who employed the dialects in order to portray the black characters in their own novels have contributed to bring the indigenous cultures to the international level. The purpose of this thesis is to indicate whether the speech of the African American and South African characters created in the original texts is recreated in the TTs. This thesis serves as the first to analyze the nonstandard linguistic features of AAVE and SABE. The results of the analysis have displayed that the nonstandard linguistic features of the dialect are important for the message of the novel and these features need to be regarded in translation. Keywords: Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Tar Baby, July's People, Dialect, Translational norms.