A Quantitative Approach to Methods Used in Translated Children’s Literature during the Translation of Environment-based Cultural Words from the Early Republican Period to the Present

Abstract

Based upon Descriptive Translation Studies, the primary purpose of this study is to define the diachronic distribution of translation methods formulated in the intercultural transfer of environment/nature information as a culture-bound element through quantitative data and to constitute a pioneering map of methods in terms of translation of cultural elements within the scope of children’s literature. The database of the study is composed of 10 English children’s literature classics with the themes of adventure in nature, human-nature struggle, human-animal friendship and their 48 retranslations published between 1929 and 2013. The findings of our study have revealed that literal translation was the most used translation method in the early Republican period and that the methods prevailing the translation process in the other periods were domestication, literal translation and foreignization, respectively