Ideology Of Foreignization Analysis

Although the process and product of the translation are nearly interrelated, the ideology of the translation can be followed in both of them. Tymoczko (2003) states that the ideology of the translation could be a combination of the content of the source text and modifications made in the source text during the process of rendering the context to the target text. ‘The ideology of translation resides not only in the text translated, but also in the voicing and stance of the translator, and in its relevance to the receiving audience’ (Tymoczko, 2003, pp. 182–83). Ideology is a set of certain concepts, beliefs, sentiments and presuppositions stemming from the cultural, social, political and contextual history of the certain individual, class,
When dealing with the ideology of translation, the two main strategies namely domestication and foreignization are used. These basic translation strategies provide both linguistic and cultural guidance for translating culture-specific source texts into parallel target texts. Munday (2001) states that domestication is the type of translation involving mitigating the source-text foreign elements to the target-language cultural values. Domestication strategies have been used since ancient Rome and at that time the translation was considered as a kind of conquest because the translators obliterated not only culturally specific markers and but also added up illusions to Roman culture. Fluency and transparency are two main elements characterizing domestication as a strategy. The fluent translation is the one that involves translated texts that should not be interrupted by the lexicon and the syntax and seem more foreign than of target language words. If the translator’s aim is invisibility and the translated texts seem more natural, the result is a ‘transparent text’( Venuti,1998, p12). Foreignization is a strategy involving retaining as many foreign elements or words as possible of a source language. Foreign meaning elements encompass linguistic and cultural features that were used in the source language. While dealing with the foreignization strategy, the main goal of the translators is to keeping all its values and characteristics of the source text for giving the delight to readers. Foreignizing the translation increases the difficulty of understanding of the source text, adds more vocabulary to the target language and broadens the cultural interest of target language audience to other