As The Vegetarian and its translation won the Man Booker International Prize last May in 2016, this novel has been studied and analyzed a lot. However, there is not any research on its translation in terms of the communication between a text by an author of the source language and a reader of the ta...
As The Vegetarian and its translation won the Man Booker International Prize last May in 2016, this novel has been studied and analyzed a lot. However, there is not any research on its translation in terms of the communication between a text by an author of the source language and a reader of the target language. Hence, this study reviewed the characteristics of literary translation and compensation strategies, focusing on communication as a goal of translation in Chapter Two and Three. Among the compensation strategies that were suggested by Baker, Vinay and Darbelnet, this study showed which compensation strategies were frequently used in the translation of The Vegetarian and provided examples. Then, 4 maxims of quantity, quality, relevance and manner from Grice’s conversation maxim were applied and the study illustrated that The Vegetarian was translated with proper compensation for target language readers in Chapter Five. We found that the translator used loan word plus explanation, paraphrase with added explanation, idioms, superordinate and hypernym words as compensation strategies. These allowed the translator to convey the story intensity and the character’s strong feelings to readers. To assess the translation quality by maxims, some maxims were violated but all extracted sample translations obeyed the maxim of relevance. This allows the author and readers to communicate with each other, so it is considered that translation of The Vegetarian successfully achieved its goal of an equivalence in reader’s acceptance and effective communication with proper compensation. The implication of this study is that the research methodology was not extracted from the previous traditional evaluation, but a new way was applied that was focused on readers and communication. With a new tool, the translation of The Vegetarian was analyzed. Thus, this study will suggest a different view of literary translation evaluation. Still, Grice’s maxim has been criticised and this study only targeted a single novel. These two facts are considered as a limitation of the research.
As The Vegetarian and its translation won the Man Booker International Prize last May in 2016, this novel has been studied and analyzed a lot. However, there is not any research on its translation in terms of the communication between a text by an author of the source language and a reader of the target language. Hence, this study reviewed the characteristics of literary translation and compensation strategies, focusing on communication as a goal of translation in Chapter Two and Three. Among the compensation strategies that were suggested by Baker, Vinay and Darbelnet, this study showed which compensation strategies were frequently used in the translation of The Vegetarian and provided examples. Then, 4 maxims of quantity, quality, relevance and manner from Grice’s conversation maxim were applied and the study illustrated that The Vegetarian was translated with proper compensation for target language readers in Chapter Five. We found that the translator used loan word plus explanation, paraphrase with added explanation, idioms, superordinate and hypernym words as compensation strategies. These allowed the translator to convey the story intensity and the character’s strong feelings to readers. To assess the translation quality by maxims, some maxims were violated but all extracted sample translations obeyed the maxim of relevance. This allows the author and readers to communicate with each other, so it is considered that translation of The Vegetarian successfully achieved its goal of an equivalence in reader’s acceptance and effective communication with proper compensation. The implication of this study is that the research methodology was not extracted from the previous traditional evaluation, but a new way was applied that was focused on readers and communication. With a new tool, the translation of The Vegetarian was analyzed. Thus, this study will suggest a different view of literary translation evaluation. Still, Grice’s maxim has been criticised and this study only targeted a single novel. These two facts are considered as a limitation of the research.
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