Yeniden çeviri projeleri ve kavramları üzerine sorgulamalar: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar'ın İngilizceye gizli yeniden çevirileri

Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (SAE, 1961) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar has two distinct English translations: a first translation by Ender Gürol (2001) and a second one by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe (2014), both titled The Time Regulation Institute (TRI). The case seems peculiar due to the first translation tagline on the latter, despite a precedent. The question of why prompted a paratextual descriptive study, which led to textual studies of Tanpınar's two novels in English, SAE and Huzur (1949). Thus, the first chapter problematizes the different interpretations of Tanpınar's oeuvre in English through the TRI translations, Inner Peace (2007) by Ender Gürol, and A Mind at Peace (2008) by Erdağ Göknar, employing distinct methodologies for each case based on their characteristics and the further questions asked. Although the nature of the works invokes the concept of retranslation, the investigation into them reveals no convincing explanation for the first translation tagline. The dissertation, then, theoretically claims that both Freely and Dawe's and Göknar's translations qualify as retranslations and approaches them as concealed. Consequently, the second chapter operationalizes this concept based on assumed retranslation, relativized by reinterpreting the target-oriented framework (Toury 2003). The concept is argued to be empirical and justified in view of possible artificial ones (Goodman 1983; Hacking 1999). Given the relativity and proliferation of retranslation concepts, the chapter lastly describes the current retranslation concepts, analyzing 104 articles using a matrix of academic labor (Koskinen 2010) and its categorization loosely constructed as conceptual schemes. It thus aims at a paradigmatic understanding of the emerging concepts for the development of the field (Kuhn 2000). Overall, the dissertation presents two related thesis statements: one on the stances of retranslators and the other on those of retranslation researchers. It argues that the study of (re)translation practice can be beneficial at the meta-level of (re)translation concepts, particularly in terms of researchers' self-positioning based on research purposes and (in)commensurability in light of the potential manipulation of another's concept.