LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 21:11 November 2021
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The Proper Name Translation

Narantuya Munkhjargal

Abstract

This article attempts to analyze translation problem of the proper name in literature. During the translation process, we have to solve some problems in translation and choose correct methods overcoming such problems. Correct translation of the proper name plays an important role in literary translation. For example, to keep the spirit of artistic translation, certain imagination of the main hero is needed. The translator must pay an attention to the Source Text and facts related to the text. The facts are supported by studies of the researchers of that field. Using the proper name as allusion is assisted in making the correct version of the translation.

Keywords: translation techniques, proper name allusion, Genghis Khan, source text, source language, literary translation.

Introduction

The proper name translation presents many issues and problems in in the translation of a text. The proper name translation may be not so difficult if the readers are acquainted well with the nationality of the text. But translator must pay attention to it because there are many occasions and difficulties with proper names during translation process.

There are some versions of the translation “Genghis Khan”, who was the Great Emperor of the Mongol Empire, a very popular proper name all over the world.

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Narantuya Munkhjargal
Master’s in Arts of Linguistics
Ulaanbaatar State University, Mongolia
mnaran0311@gmail.com
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