A Sociological Study of the Translator's Role in Translating Bahaa Taher's Sunset Oasis and Love in Exile into English.

Abstract

The present thesis explores the role of the translator as an active agent in translating Bahaa Taher’s Sunset Oasis and Love in Exile into English. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social practice (1992), the thesis inspects the influence of the sociological background of both translators and the role of their agents on their linguistic choices and whether these linguistic choices ensue in Venuti’s (1995) “foreignization” or “domestication” (pp. 23-24), and accordingly which of Berman’s negative analytic strategies (1985) are triggered. To that effect, the thesis analyses the sociological impact on the translators’ linguistic choices on the lexico-semantic level, the grammatical level, the phonological level, along