Making words sing and dance: Sense, style and sound in Yoruba prose translation

2025-01-04 Classification：language Click()
Author：Olubunmi Smith, PJ

Article Title：Making words sing and dance: Sense, style and sound in Yoruba prose translation

Abstract：
Ordinary in prose translation, rhythm is usually not a matter of great concern for the translator. Unlike poetry, with its comparatively rigid form, prose, by its very nature, permits a free form fluidity, giving the translator a certain kind of carte blanche 'prosaic' license. However, in language-driven texts, as is the case in the novels of Yoruba creative writer D.O. Fagunwa, the translator has to be ever mindful of the author's purposeful inter-linking of the aesthetic value of sound to the cognitive meaning of the text.

Keywords: language-driven texts; prose translation; rythm; sounds; Yoruba

DOI: 10.7202/004197ar

Source：META

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