An examination of Turkish translation of Jack London's "Before Adam" according to Vinay and Darbelnet's translation methods and an evaluation in terms of translation studies

Translation has always been a subject of research and debate under different circumstances, within different possibilities and contexts since its early periods. Today, it is mostly a subject of studies in the sphere of academic research, and as of now it had made a significant progress. Until recently, the academic studies on translation were within the field of linguistics, however today translation studies have the status of being an independent study field, since the last quarter of the last century. The content of this paper brings the different approaches from these two periods together via an example. Within the study of this paper, seven translation methods which were declared by Vinay and Darbelnet are used in order to analyze the Turkish translation of Before Adam, written by Jack London, and a relation is detected among these seven methods, the translation theories and this book. The study regards the methods of Vinay and Darbelnet as significant, and shows the necessity of the attention will be paid on these methods by the forthcoming studies which are going to be made within the field of translation studies. By this paper, the source text in English and the Turkish translation of the book are compared, the methods adopt during the translation and their distribution are analyzed. Between the two main branches of these methods, which are the direct one and the oblique one, the oblique translation methods are significantly more used. At the end of the study, the results are connected with the concepts such as translator's decisions, text type and the relation between the source and target languages; and finally, the evaluations in terms of translation studies are introduced.