Oscar Wilde'in The İmportance Of Being Earnest eserinin Türkçe çevirilerinin görünürlük ve görünmezlik odağında betimleyici bir incelemesi

This thesis aims to analyze the two translations of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) which are Ciddi Olmanın Önemi by Murat Erşen published in 2007 and Maksat Samimiyet by Can Yücel published in 2018 within the scope of the arguments of Venuti about the translator's invisibility. In the research, the book covers, titles, idioms, made-up words, religion, and mythological terms, proper names, cultural items, examinations, and addressing words were analyzed based the Gideon Toury's descriptive theoretical approach. As a result of the analysis based on the selected examples, it was seen that the equivalence relationship between the ST and TT1 is closer to the adequacy pole while the equivalence relationship between the ST and TT2 is closer to the acceptability pole. In the research, the foreignization/domestication strategies and their relations to the translator's visibility and invisibility which were asserted by Venuti were analyzed. It is seen in most of the examples that a translation process that is closer to the target culture's norms is pursued and predominantly domestication strategy is adopted in TT2. Unlike Venuti's argument which asserts that foreignization strategy means showing a resistance to the target culture's norms and by doing so, makes the translator's efforts visible, in this case, it is seen that by applying domestication strategy, TT2 is closer to the target culture's norms and by disguising the dominant English culture items, it resists to the source culture's norms and makes the translator visible. This analysis of the case study demonstrated that contrary to Venuti's argument about applying foreignization strategy might not mean showing resistance to the source culture and it makes the translator and translator's effort visible while applying domestication strategy makes the translator and the translator's effort invisible. It was concluded that we cannot talk about a direct connection between the translator's visibility and the translation strategy in every case, time, culture, and language and there is more than one factor involved other than the translation strategy in the translator's visibility.