A Literary Review for the thesis Strategies for Translating Dialectical Features: A Study of Selected Gujarati Novels in English Translation
Abstract
The present research is aimed at exploring the strategies employed while translating dialectical features of Gujarati novels into English. Since a dialect is a regionally or socially distinctive variety of a language, it is identified by a particular set of words and phonological features. Spoken dialects are usually also associated with a distinctive pronunciation and accent. At times the two dialects of the same language become unintelligible to each other e.g. the dialects of Chinese: Mandarin, Cantonese etc. Cockney, one of the dialects of English, is considered ‘squeamish’ and ‘affected’ by the standard users of English. Similarly, a Gujarati dialect spoken in the Northern Gujarat is somewhat unintelligible to the people of Southern Gujarat. Now, while translating Gujarati novels with diverse varieties of dialectical features into English, what strategies of translation are employed by the translators could be an interesting study.
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