Translation scholarship abounds in strong views against literal translation, questioning its viability and creativity. The present paper problematizes the relegation of literal translation and makes a case for its viability in the translation of literary texts. To this end, the paper analyzes 600 culturebound and collocational expressions extracted from a corpus of thirty Nepali short stories in English translation carried out by Nepali EFL student translators. The findings demonstrate the accuracy of literally translated expressions and further illustrate the creative potential of literal translation. Finally, the study points out the necessity of incorporating literal translation as a viable strategy in translation pedagogy.

The study investigates the types of errors made by the Odia ESL learners while performing the task of both direct translation i.e., from Odia (L1) to English (L2) and inverse translation, i.e. from English (L2) to Odia (L1). It will also make an attempt to find out whether the medium of instruction has to play a significant role in committing these errors or not. The data were gathered from 30 Odia ESL learners studying in Class X and who were divided into two groups of the equal number on the basis of the medium of instruction they had in their school. The participants were assigned the task of translating two passages (one from L1 to L2 & the other from L2 to L1). The study was conducted at two different educational institutions in Odisha. Participants had to write down the translation directly on the paper. The written data were analyzed thereafter by the researcher herself. The result of the analysis revealed that the medium of instruction has no role to play in committing the types of translation errors by the Odia ESL learners.

In this article, we explore the names of creatures of the video game Enter the Gungeon that resulted in wordplays through lexical blending. 1 forty-two (42), either originally constructed as lexical blends in American English or transposed as such into Brazilian Portuguese, will be analysed. Such mixtures of lexical items to create their names reflect their appearance and ability, usually related to weapons and ammunition. Our discussion includes an overview of the main word-formation processes used in lexical blending, then, explores the ones involved in creating the names in American English, and compares them with their counterparts in Brazilian Portuguese, aiming to verify how such linguistic events were treated in the target language. Translating lexical blends (a type of wordplay), due to their formation process, inevitably involves high doses of creativity. For results in Brazilian Portuguese other than lexical blends, more appropriate constructions will be suggested. Our results indicate that the translator(s) could not only re-create most of the instances but also create other neologisms, corroborating the word-formation process of specific lexical blends, as wordplays with imagistic function.

With the introduction of print modalities and the subsequent introduction of modern/western education systems, the questions of language, vernacular education, book production, and translations became important in 19th century Bengal. As the introduction of a new epistemological system in 19th century Bengal necessitated the production of books and translations, several western knowledge texts got translated into Bengali by the efforts of various individuals and institutions. These translations play a pivotal role in producing textbooks in Bengali and represent a site where the structure and vocabulary of the Bengali language got standardised and redefined through printed language and language of translations. This study tracks the translations produced by the collaboration of Fort William College and Serampore Missionary Press, Calcutta School Book Society and Vernacular Literature Society and argues that the translations produced by these institutions gave shape to a kind of Bengali language that represented a class and social hierarchy. This study argues that the translations produced by the aforementioned institutions and the printed textbooks paved a way for the upper-class urban elites to mould the Bengali language in their way (by excluding the colloquial register and language of the masses) to represent their ethos and class hierarchy and identity. This study argues that the translations produced by these institutions, in many ways, were the tools through which the various contesting views on the form and diction of the language of/in print got articulated.

This paper is part of the researcher’s full-fledged Ph.D. research work on the linguistic problems and difficulties of translating between English and Arabic as two non-native languages. The current paper is set up to examine the grammatical problems and difficulties of English to Arabic translation that face the M.A. students who are learning Arabic in India. The data has been collected through a translation test which was designed based on classroom observations and after consulting the translation teachers. The data has been analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. All the participants faced several grammatical problems and difficulties while doing the translation test. This research work presents and discusses five of the most frequently detected problems and difficulties; including translating grammatical agreement, grammatical case, tenses, prepositions and definite and indefinite articles. The researcher has finally concluded the study with some practical and pedagogical suggestions.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the awareness of Yemeni translation students of the importance of discourse analysis (DA) in translation. It has been conducted to find out the role of DA in enhancing students’ translation and its influence in improving their translation. For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed as the instrument to investigate the students’ awareness of DA importance in translating process. Third- and fourth-level students from three Yemeni universities were chosen to answer the questionnaire. The results reveal that Yemeni students have an orientation of the importance of DA in translation; they are aware of the role of DA in translation. The study concludes that understanding DA is one of the golden keys for successful translation. It is a very important course, which translation students should take and indispensable to the translation field. So there is a strong link between DA and translation. The study recommends that DA be a part of university curricula and translators’ training, and students should take a practical part with translation to apply the analysis of a text

The degree of untranslatability depends on the lack of equivalence present in the target language. Translation of nonsense literature poses a huge challenge because of its inherent linguistic and cultural specificity. The following paper looks at Satyajit Ray’s translation of Edward Lear’s nonsense rhymes, in Toray Bandha Ghorar Dim (1986) with particular reference to the ‘Jumblies’ and ‘Dong with a Luminous Nose’. This paper traces the journey of cultural metamorphoses that Lear’s poems go through to become presentable to a Bengali reading public for whom Ray writes and discusses the strategies undertaken by Ray for the purpose.