The Grammar of Turkish in Translation Training: Functional Approach

The article deals with the problems in the translation process caused by the structural approach to Turkish adopted by the students of translation, with Turkish being their native language, and highlights the necessity to develop a functional approach to Turkish in translation teaching alongside the traditional grammar books with a structural paradigm. The structural approach to Turkish adopted by the students since elementary school is seen to be a triggering factor behind the words, phrases, sentences and texts derived according to the “linguistic worldview” of Turkish language during the translation into the target language. Thus, the problem of university coursebooks on Turkish as well as other sources on the subject used by the students of translation is introduced. The article reveals the problems encountered during the translation training/foreign language learning by the native Turkish students who try to apply the traditional Turkish grammar focusing on structural level of the language, with examples given for the Turkish-Russian language pair. The main focus of the article is the -d？k structures known as “s？fat-fiil” in Turkish grammar that can cause problems in Turkish-Russian translation process. The necessity of applying functional analysis to the -d？k structures, being an inseperable element of the socio-political texts, in the translation process is underlined. The importance of functional approach perspective for the native language to be developed by the student studying translation is emphasized