ICLSL 2016
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Item Problems in Translating Sinhala ‘weniya’ into English(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rajapakshe, R.M.W.One language may differ from another phonologically, morphologically, syntactically and semantically. There are, however, differences as well as similarities between two languages. The degree of those differences and similarities between two languages depends on target languages. A number of differences and similarities can be seen between Sinhala and English. The purpose of this study is to analyse the difficulties of translating the Sinhala word “weniya” into English. When it refers to a position of a student in a class the word palaweniya, dewaniya, thuweniya are used to mean first, second, and third respectively. There are no problems in translating such words. The adjective forms of those words, namely palaweni, dewani and thunweni can be translated into English without any difficulty. However, a problem arises when translating a Sinhala sentence like “J.R. Jayawardena mahattaya lankawe kii weni janadhipathiwaraya da?” Ten scholars including university lecturers, professors and highly qualified professional translators gave different answers to this question. The problem here is that there is no parallel grammatical structure for this sentence in the English language. This study attempts to find the most suitable solution to the above problem. Data was gathered from six university professors, two university lecturers and two professional translators.Item The Problems Encountered in Religious Translation and How to Overcome Them(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jayasinghe, D.G.T.A.The present study deals with the problems encountered in religious translation, which is one of the most complex areas of translation studies. In this area the translator faces some serious difficulties such as understanding the meanings of the religion related terms, gathering sufficient information to describe them, translating them in a way that the reader could grasp what is conveyed, translating ga:tha and shlo:ka (religious stanzas), adopting the exact language writing style according to the religion and grasping the essence of the particular religion before translating the text. In finding solutions to the above problems, qualitative analysis is done using comparative methodology. Accordingly, the solutions such as consulting a reliable source/person to gather information about the terms appear in the religious text, referring books on the particular religion and getting a good understanding, studying the writing style of the other books that present the essence or preaching of the relevant religion before starting the translation. Thus the translator could use the above given solutions for an effective religious translation without causing mistranslations.