{"id":9935,"date":"2022-03-08T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirora.com\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:20:03","slug":"babil-kulesi-ve-ceviribilim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirora.com\/en\/the-tower-of-babel-and-translation-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tower of Babel and Translation Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9935\" class=\"elementor elementor-9935\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f74b7b3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f74b7b3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3111bb6e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3111bb6e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">The people of Babylon, who lived in wealth and prosperity in Mesopotamia centuries ago, started to build a tower to reach God and rebel. The construction of this tower took years. Then, one night, a miracle happened, and each Babylonian began to speak a different language. Since they could not understand each other, it was impossible to mobilize and continue the tower\u2019s construction; hence they dispersed. The legend of the Tower of Babel and many other myths explain why there are so many different languages in the world. Translation Studies also offer a solution to the problem that these myths try to explain: enabling people who do not understand each other to communicate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\">Translation studies are more than just the branch of study that deals with translation theory, its definition, and application; it is a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary field. It also touches on comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, computer science, linguistics, philology, and philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\">Why Do Translation Studies Address So Many Disciplines?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\">Contrary to popular belief, knowing a language sufficiently or very well does not mean that one has the competence to translate. Translating is much more than speaking a language. In addition to being an expert in the source language, a translator should have a good command of the culture, history, literature, economic, and even political policy of the language they are translating. In other words, a translator should receive training in translation studies because language and the mentioned disciplines are intertwined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\">For example, the 20th of July 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation is referred to as a military intervention in Turkish texts. However, states with close political relations with Greece describe this military operation as an invasion, and the term \u201cmilitary invasion\u201d is commonly used in English sources. To understand such differences, it is necessary to know which side of history the countries are on. Therefore, a translator must know many disciplines, which is why such a versatile education is offered in translation studies departments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\">Contemporary Translation Studies Theories<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\">Over the centuries, many translation theories have been put forward. As time passed, it was realized that staying loyal to the source text is not always the best solution, and modern theories have been created within the framework of this realization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><strong>Skopos Theory in Translation Studies: <\/strong>According to this theory, the translation process is determined by the purpose. The target text may match the source text, but a complete overlap is not required; The important thing is that the target text fulfills its purpose.<\/span><\/li>\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><strong>Purpose-Oriented Translation Theory in Translation Studies: <\/strong>Those who support this theory argue that the source text can be shaped according to the target audience.<\/span><\/li>\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><strong>Relation Theory in Translation Studies:<\/strong> It reveals that the reader also plays a role in understanding a text and that sometimes the source text does not have just one acceptable meaning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Let\u2019s remind those who say, \u201cThere is no need for theories, it is practices that matter\u201d, that we are a translation company that has witnessed for a quarter of a century that translators who have a solid theoretical background and have successfully graduated from translation studies departments can confidently do translations that serve a purpose and robustly manage every aspect of the translation process.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto;\"><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centuries ago, the people of Babylon, living in wealth and prosperity in Mesopotamia, decided to build a tower to reach God and...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ceviri","category-diger","th-blog blog-single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Babil Kulesi ve \u00c7eviribilim - Mirora Translation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Asl\u0131nda \u00e7eviribilim; 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