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somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that'" (Carroll, 1993; 161) "in
reference to rapidly changing political situations", and of course, the Cheshire Cat's
"we're all mad here" (Carroll, 1993; 67).
Lewis Carroll's effect on the English language is one not normally delved into
and studied, but its impact is most profound. Through his love of play and words,
Carroll brought to his language a sense of joyfulness and childlike amusement. Many
of his nonsense words have entered the English lexicon, and just as many, if not
more, of his whimsical phrases have been on display in our growing culture, ever
since the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
CHAPTER TWO Theoretical and Methodological Framework
I. Pun Translation
As is well known, theoretical as well as critical discussions of
the translation of wordplay usually revolve round the
question whether wordplay is "translatable" at all. Logically
speaking this question makes sense only if one has in mind an
implicit or explicit a priori definition of what "translation" or
"a translation" is. Indeed, while no one will deny that
wordplay in a source text is amenable to various forms of
interlingual processing, the obstacle is usually that the kind of
processes that wordplay will lend itself to cannot be
reconciled with the scholar's preconceived criteria of what
constitutes ("good" or "genuine") translation (Delabastita,
1991; 146).
In comparing English and Turkish, as is well-known, there are two choices
for the translator to translate you in English- sen or siz in Turkish. For the verb ‘to
meet’ in English one can find at least four possible equivalences in Turkish, e.g.
karşılaşmak (to meet by chance), buluşmak (to meet arranging before), tanışmak (to
meet for the first time), karşılamak (to pick someone up at the station or etc.) and so
forth. Translators have to make choices of this kind all the time: the need for such
choices is a consequence of the absence of one-to-one equivalence between
languages (Delabastita, 1996; 133). If one considers that wordplay is a prominent
feature in a multitude of texts - from the Old Testament to post modern writing... -
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