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Old Testament Essays

versão On-line ISSN 2312-3621
versão impressa ISSN 1010-9919

Old testam. essays vol.23 no.2 Pretoria  2010

 

The translator as an agent of change and transformation: The case of translating biblical Proverbs

 

 

Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé; Jacobus A. Naudé

University of the Free State

Correspondence

 

 


ABSTRACT

This article explores the notion of the translator as an agent of cultural mediation with respect to a very difficult aspect of translation: the translation of biblical proverbs into Sudanese languages. Particular attention is paid to a recent argument concerning strategies for indigenisation and foreignisation as well as the matter of hegemony in translation. These possibilities and challenges are especially acute in the translation of proverbs. Differing strategies of foreignisation and indigenisation produce different kinds of translations, which, on the one hand, may fulfil differing needs within the community, and which, on the other hand, effect different kinds of change.


 

 

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Correspondence:
Professor Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
E-mail: millercl@ufs.ac.za

Professor J.A. Naudé
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
E-mail: naudej@ufs.ac.za

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