THE EFFECT OF IDEOLOGY ON TRANSLATION PROCESS

Abstract

With the globalizing world, translation activity is becoming widespread worldwide and the impact
of translation on daily life is also increasing significantly day by day. In addition to providing crosscultural communication and cultural exchange, translation has also an important place in spreading
ideologies among societies. Although, it is commonly accepted that translation is not a prejudiced
activity, it is influenced by so many variables especially the ideology and the world view of the
translators. Because, the decisions made by the translators during the translation process and the
ideology of the translators bear some ideological consequences in the translated text. Subsequently,
it would not be wrong to define the translation as a process of interpreting the source text that is
shaped by the translator's ideology. As a result of this, the effect of ideology on translation has
attracted the attention of researchers in recent years.
Taking all the things mentioned above into account, the main goal of this article is to explain the
role of ideology in translation and to reveal how ideologies affect translators’ decisions and choices
in the translation process. This study also tries to explain the relationship between translation and
ideology in a concrete way by presenting previous case studies and the results of these studies. In
order to serve this purpose, firstly, the concept of ideology was explained in detail. In addition, the
concepts of discourse, discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, which are the first concepts
that come to mind when it comes to ideology, are mentioned and the relationship of these concepts
with ideology and translation is tried to be explained.