City of Glass çevirisi üzerine bir inceleme

Literary translation differs from other kinds of translation for it is found at the core of complex social and cultural practices, and thus the translator employs his imagination, intelligence and common sense together with steadily refreshed linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge to figure out what lies underneath a writer's choice of language. To succeed in his task, the translator has to use stylistics as a method of analysis. In order to recreate the source text in the social and cultural context of the target language, the translator treats the text as a linguistic and communicative phenomenon; and after determining the socio-cultural framework to which the text belongs, he interprets and analyzes the linguistic signs via critical and linguistic study and thus uses stylistics as a method. Only after this sort of analysis will the translator be able to comprehend the social, cultural and historical setting, function, nature, meaning, messages and intertextual feature of the source text and also the writer's specific use of language such as collocation, image, rhyme, metaphor, and will he be well equipped to transfer the writer's mental structure, thinking and world experience into another language as closely as possible. In this thesis, the stylistic study will cover not only the source text, City of Glass, written by Paul Auster, but also the recreated text, Cam Kent, by Yusuf Eradam with the aim of investigating to what extent the linguistic features of the original text as regards the main word classes, the nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, grammatical categories, sentence types, sentence complexity, clause structure, minor word classes, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, postpositions, figures of speech, metaphors, context, the relation between the writer, the reader and the character, and cohesion, cross- reference, linkage, are carried into the translated text.