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    Citation Count: Akat, Bülent (2020). "An interpretive approach to translation: Can Yücel’s translation of The Great Gatsby", RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, No. 19, pp. 859-875.
    An interpretive approach to translation: Can Yücel’s translation of The Great Gatsby
    (2020) Akat, Bülent; 18404; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Mütercim Tercümanlık Bölümü
    This study is concerned with an analysis of Can Yücel’s translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby into Turkish -Muhteşem Gatsby- in the light of the Interpretive Theory at large and Jean Delisle’s translation procedures (Expansion and Economy) in particular. In his rendering of the novel, the translator adopted a strategy based on conceptualizing the ‘sense’ behind the source-text message through the process of deverbalization, and then reformulating that message by using a language that sounds quite familiar to the target reader. Instead of establishing equivalences merely at linguistic level, the translator used his linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge to extract the explicit and implicit sense behind the source-text message, and then re-expressing that sense through the discourse of the receptor culture. This is a strategy intended to achieve textual and contextual equivalences rather than finding out correspondences at lexical and phrasal level. Based on these considerations, in this article, exemplary extracts selected from the target text were analyzed with a view to showing that the strategies employed in the rendering of the novel involve features that reflect the basic tenets of the Interpretive Theory. Within this framework, an attempt was made to illustrate that these strategies lend themselves well to the application of Delisle’s translation procedures, yielding results that confirm their relevance to the analysis of Can Yücel’s translation of the novel.
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    Citation Count: Akat, B.; Kümbül, T. (2023). "Page or Stage? A Comparative Study on the Two Turkish Versions of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest", Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi, Vol.13, pp.1-13.
    Page or Stage? A Comparative Study on the Two Turkish Versions of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
    (2023-06-30) Akat, Bülent; Kümbül, Tuba; 18404; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, Mütercim Terümanlık Bölümü
    Translation of theatre texts differs from other kinds of translations in certain ways. In translation, dramatic works can be treated either as texts to be read or as texts that can readily be turned into scripts for theatrical performance. Within this context, this study aims to compare and contrast the Turkish versions of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest produced by two translators -Murat Erşen (Ciddi Olmanın Önemi) and Can Yücel (Maksat Samimiyet)- within the framework of the key concepts of drama: readability, speakability, and performability. In this article, extracts selected from the original play and its two translations have been analyzed in the light of Susan Bassnett's strategies of theatre translation. Especially, two of the five strategies proposed -translation for the printed page and translation for stage- form the basis of this study. A comparative analysis of the excerpts has demonstrated that Murat Erşen generally adopted a source-oriented approach while Can Yücel favored a target-oriented translation In fact, Erşen’s translation looks as if it was intended to be read, whereas Yücel’s translation lends itself better to stage performance.
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    Citation Count: Akat, Bülent, "The Use of Idiomatic Language as a Strategy for Receptor-Oriented Translation: A Study on Tomris Uyar’s Rendering of Flannery O’Connor’s Grotesque Stories: “The Lame Shall Enter First” and “The Comforts of Home”", International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 33-43, (2019).
    The Use of Idiomatic Language as a Strategy for Receptor-Oriented Translation: A Study on Tomris Uyar’s Rendering of Flannery O’Connor’s Grotesque Stories: “The Lame Shall Enter First” and “The Comforts of Home”
    (Research Gate, 2019-02) Akat, Bülent; 18404; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, Mütercim Tercümanlık Bölümü (İngilizce)
    This study is concerned with an analysis of Tomris Uyar’s rendering of two grotesque stories by the American fiction writer Flannery O’Connor, “The Lame Shall Enter First” and “The Comforts of Home”, translated into Turkish as “Önce Sakatlar Girecek” and “Yuvanın Nimetleri” respectively. The article mainly focuses on the translator’s use of idiomatic language in the rendering of these grotesque stories as a strategy for conveying the semantic content of the stories to the receptor audience as well as for evoking in them the feelings and responses similar to those created in the source-text reader. In her translations, Tomris Uyar adopts a receptororiented strategy closely associated with Eugene A. Nida’s concept of Dynamic Equivalence. Out of a desire to achieve an easy, natural, and fluent style in translation, the translator relies heavily on the use of idioms in receptor language, thus creating in the reader the feeling that these stories were originally written in Turkish.