ON THE ETYMOLOGICAL ASPECT OF TRANSLATION IN THREE DIFFERENT TURKISH TRANSLATED TEXTS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S 66TH SONNET

This study aims to examine the interconnected Turkish translations of William Shakespeare’s 66th sonnet by Turkish translators Can Yücel, Talat Sait Halman, and Hasan İlhan in a lingual and etymological perspective that explores the origin of the words used in texts, takes word choices and repetitions used in the translations as the main domains of analysis, and that intends to investigate their effects on the meaning of the translation. The word choices for translation in the three different translated versions of the same original work and their etymological origins are taken as the main fields of analysis in question, and their effects are examined and compared. Though lingual analysis is concerned with various subjects such as style variation, sound and meaning; in this study, particularly word usages and word choices are taken as the essential examining domains of the three Turkish translations of the 66th sonnet. In addition, some further analysis is made respecting the origins of specific words by taking their etymological characteristics into consideration. In this way, this study expects to contribute to translation studies in terms of poetry translation by putting forth the lingual and etymological examination of the same sonnet in three different translated versions.