Loss of Meaning in Translation: A case of Seto Bagh

Abstract

This thesis entitled‘Loss of Meaning in Translation: A Case of Seto Bagh’ is an attempt to find out the causes of meaning loss in translation. Furthermore, it aimed to analyze the ways that is used to compensate the meaning gap in translation.Only the secondary sources of data were used in the study. Descriptive and analytical study design along with qualitative data were used. To carryout this research, one hundred social and cultural words and phrases were selected from the novel ‘Seto Bagh’.Out of them,forty six different cases of meaning loss were found in their translation along with causes.Some of the major causes of meaninglosswere pointed out as-cultural gap, deletion, negligence of the translator, lack of functional equivalence,lack of socio-cultural knowledge (of the SL) of the translator, overgeneralization, carelessness of the translator, incomplete linguistic knowledge of the translator. The whole thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter one deals with the background of the study,statement of the problem rationale of the study,objectives of the study, significance, delimitations and operational definition of key terms. Second chapter deals with the review of the related literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three includes the vital elements of the research study e.g., methodology which was adopted to conduct the whole study.It contains the design of the study, sources of data, sample size, tool for the data collection, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation of the data. The results have been discussed in chapter four and in the last chapter the whole study has been summarized and concluded along with the implications.