“Challenges of Rendering Social-Hierarchy Vocabulary in the Translation of Early-20th-Century Uzbek Titles into English”
Keywords:
social-hierarchy vocabulary, Uzbek literature, translation studies, honorific titles, pragmatics, narrative dynamics, relational meaning, Jadid reformism, Qodiriy, CholponAbstract
The translation of social-hierarchy vocabulary in early 20th-century Uzbek literature into English is quite a difficult task due to the relational and pragmatic functions of the titles like bek, mirza, oqsoqol, and otin. These terms describe the spectrum of power, the amount of respect, and social placement within the historical and communal contexts which the English language does not have direct equivalents for. The study is primarily centered on the examination of the linguistic and socio-historical factors that create hindrances in translation, and it further illustrates how relational meaning, narrative tension, and character dynamics are all affected when hierarchical vocabulary is rendered literally or generically.
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