translation studies - Facultatea de Litere - Dunarea de Jos

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the professional assistance of translators and interpreters as individuals with expertise in
this specific field, be it the translation of documents, directions or the interpreting provided
on any communication occasion. For practical illustration of her viewpoint, she embarks
upon a general overview of the current Turkish banking platform in terms of mergers and
acquisitions in process and she describes the level of importance attached to the acts and
professions of translation and interpreting by specifically considering the cases of three
major actors in the Turkish banking business sector, namely the Turkish Economy Bank
(TEB), Yapı Kredi Bank (YKB) and Finansbank. Looking at the communicational and
linguistic activities of these three Turkish banks, she investigates the way translation and
interpreting/ translators and interpreters are perceived as well as the possible reasons for
their current status and image. (Ersa Ozkaya works as a research assistant at the
Department of English Translation and Interpreting, Faculty of Letters, University of
Istanbul; contact: esra.ozkaya@gmail.com)
Ligia Pîrvu writes her paper on Peter Shaffer’s first comedy Lettice and Lovage
with the aim of showing how the American playwright understands to ‘translate’ on the
level of the dramatic text the now familiar clash of Apollonian and Dionysian wills and
values. Thus she demonstrates that this is his only play in which a female Apollonian is
pitched against a female Dionysian with the result that the end of the play brings comic
reconciliation as dualism merges into likeness and the border between the two ‘camps’
becomes blurred. (Ligia Pîrvu, Ph.D., teaches English literature at the Faculty of Letters,
“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi; contact: lidiandra@yahoo.com)
In Equivalence in Translation, Ioan Lucian Popa starts form the premise that
equivalence can be deemed to constitute one of the fundamental issues in translation.
Nevertheless, its definition, significance, and applicability within the domain of translation
theory have been the source of impassioned debate, and various theories of the concept of
equivalence have been elaborated in the past fifty years. His paper aims at presenting the
ardent scientific quest for the elucidation of the status of the concept of translational
equivalence from Koller’s transformation of the notion into an argument against theories of
general untranslatability and the reactions it generated (Toury, Vermeer, Snell-Hornby,
etc) to present-day approaches to it. (Ioan-Lucian Popa, Ph.D., works as an associate
professor for the University of Bacău; contact: i_l_popa@ran.ro)
In Translating English Legalese Eponyms into Romanian, Floriana Popescu
focuses on a rather marginalized and particularly difficult issue in translations of legalese,
namely eponyms and their possible renderings from English as the SL to Romanian as the
TL. Eponyms, as a productive word-creating resource, may generate difficulties in the
translation process, when Romanian is the target language. Difficulties originate in the fact
that eponyms are being created instantly, as results of contributions belonging to great
personalities, famous in the Anglo-American world, but maybe less known to Romanian
translators. The degree of eponym recentness also results in their not being included even
in the latest and updated versions of general or encyclopedic dictionaries. As a
consequence, translators need either to rely on monolingual specialized dictionaries or to
spend long hours in front of their computers trying to solve the enigma created by personal
nouns attached as determiners to laws, acts, procedures, etc. The author’s approach does
not only discuss translation techniques to be resorted to in cases of emergency but also
provides a minimal glossary of English legalese eponyms and their Romanian versions, as
a useful instrument to translators facing such a challenging task. (Floriana Popescu, Ph.D.,
is a professor and she works for the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of
Galaţi; contact: florianapopescu@yahoo.com)
In College Essay-Writing: A Corpus-Based Analysis, Teodora Popescu describes
the results of a computational analysis applied to a corpus of 30 essays (nearly 13,600
words) written by learners of English who study economics, in order to put forward a
taxonomy of types of errors. The conclusion to her error analysis will represent a starting
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