Çelik, Dibar.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
The present study explores the key role translations in Hawar played in the formation of a Kurdish cultural identity through analysis of translations and translators' agency, adopting the non-essentialist concept of "cultural ...
Duraner Dikmen, Jasmin Esin.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
This dissertation explores the role of translation and translators in queer scholarship and activism in Turkey through analysis of the translated non-literary queer texts, terminological discussions in Kaos GL magazine ...
Turan, Eda.(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
This study explores the role of translation in foreign news reporting and journalistic practices from a Translation Studies perspective and aims at demonstrating to what extent the most frequently employed concepts of ...
Sönmez, Mehmet Eren.(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
This thesis explores how the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (W3WH) and its official translation alongside a fan translation into Turkish can be systematically analyzed by a translation criticism model. The study also ...
Ertürk, Şule Demirkol.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
The present thesis explores the relationship between city and text, examining a selection of literary narratives of Istanbul by two main figures of Turkish literature: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Orhan Pamuk. The selection ...
Aka, Elif.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
The present thesis has two main goals: to explore interactions between Pınar Kür’s authorial and translatorial styles and to test the extent to which corpus methodology can be employed in the stylistic analysis of literary ...
Akbatur, Arzu.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
This thesis explores the way Elif Şafak and her work (written and translated in/to English) have been received, represented and de/re-contextualized mainly in the Anglo-American world through a problematization of the ...
Özçelik, Nil.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
This thesis studies a corpus of three works of feminist speculative fiction (Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood, Woman on the Edge of Time -Marge Piercy, Female Man - Joanna Russ) that distinguish themselves from traditional ...
Bozkurt, Seyhan.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
This dissertation argues that approaching realism as a concept rather than a literary school or movement yields better results in terms of evaluating its impact on Turkish literature and the shaping of translation activities ...
Erkul Yağcı, Ahu Selin.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
This study explores the pioneering role of translation in the reading revolution the Ottoman-Turkish society went through in the period between 1840 and 1940. The rapid popularization of the novel shortly following its ...
Akbaş Korkmaz, Safiye Merve.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
This dissertation conducts an analysis of Istanbul-themed anthologies of Turkish short fiction, compiled and published for English and Turkish readers in the last thirty years. The analysis starts with an examination of ...
Tahir Gürçağlar, Şehnaz.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
Contemporary research on translation history in early republican Turkey is marked by a focus on the activities of the Translation Bureau [Tercüme Bürosu] (1940-1966) at the expense of other publishers which operated in ...
Koçak, Müge Işıklar.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
In this doctoral research, a database, the first of its kind in Turkey, is established for non-literary translated and indigenous texts for/on women published between 1828 and 1990. Since the critical analysis of the ...
Sarıgül, Semih.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
As a sub-discipline of AVT, VGL has become a popular research topic around the world in the last decade. In addition to professional localisation service companies, volunteer and non-professional communities also play an ...
Üstün, Sema.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
This study explores the functioning of translation in the recontextualization process of Turkish Islamism between 1960 and 1980. I argue that translation functioned as a crucial medium for the resurgence of Islamism in ...
Takanay, Aslı.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
The thesis explores the complex webs of relations, which functioned as the driving forces behind and within the Turkish-Russian literary translation flow that gained momentum between the death of Joseph Stalin (1953) and ...
Uslu, Muazzez.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
This study surveys the retranslations of the leftist non-fiction books in Turkish from 1921 to 2016 and scrutinizes the reasons for the second wave retranslations. As The Communist Manifesto was the most frequently ...
Akdoğan, Fazilet.(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
This study analyzes the translation history of the success-based self-help literature in Turkish from the 1930s to the 1990s, focusing on the habitus and trajectories of the leading translators/authors whose agency paved ...
Pesen, Alaz.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
The present study problematizes the alleged originality of songs that exist both in Greek and Turkish from the perspective of translation studies. Reviewing recent works on song translation, it points to a need for a ...
Elgül, Ceyda.(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
This study portrays translation and biography as analogous mediums of transcreation that confront similar constraints while constructing a representation of a selected source for a certain group of receivers. As points of ...