Food Name Translation Practice: A Case Study of Indonesian – English Menus

Setyaningsih, Retno Wulandari

doi:10.12928/notion.v2i2.2936

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“…They also found that neutralizing procedures were used more frequently than foreignizing or domesticating methods. This result was in line with other findings from earlier research (e.g., De Marco, 2015;Oster and Molés-Cases, 2016;Setyaningsih, 2020). Furthermore, the results conflicted with earlier research.…”

Section: Studies On Cultural Referencessupporting

confidence: 81%

Culturally based semantic losses in Lonely Planet’s travel guides translations for Beijing, Shanghai, and Sichuan

Chen,

Zhou

2024

Front. Commun.

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Translating cultural references in tourism materials is pivotal in bridging cultural gaps and facilitating cross-cultural communication. Despite the escalating demand for accurate translation, no research exists to address the losses in cultural connotations and their impact on semantic accuracy in Chinese-English cultural reference translation within Lonely Planet’s travel guides. This research seeks to fill this gap, specifically focusing on Beijing, Shanghai, and Sichuan destinations. The objectives are as follows: 1) to identify the types of cultural connotation losses in the English translation of Chinese cultural references; 2) to examine cultural-related semantic losses, considering instances where cultural connotation losses lead to partial or complete semantic losses; and 3) to elucidate the translation decisions (both macro and micro levels) implications on the culturally based semantic losses. A qualitative-descriptive approach forms the foundation of this research. The findings revealed seven types of cultural connotation losses, with partial semantic losses predominant. Applying Venuti’s domestication and foreignization, the results also uncovered a strong inclination toward foreignization, emphasizing the strangeness inherent in the source culture is intensified. These findings contribute to a nuanced understanding of the complexities of translating cultural connotations and maintaining semantic accuracy, offering a comprehensive typology that can guide future translation practices and serve as a springboard for further research in the field. Lastly, this study underscores the significance of maintaining cultural connotations in translation, thereby contributing to the ongoing development of cross-cultural communication.

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Section: Studies On Cultural Referencessupporting

confidence: 81%

Culturally based semantic losses in Lonely Planet’s travel guides translations for Beijing, Shanghai, and Sichuan

Chen,

Zhou

2024

Front. Commun.

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“…This result is consistent with the findings of most of the research discussed in Section 2.3. (e.g., De Marco, 2015; Oster & Molés, 2016; Setyaningsih, 2020), even if they did not all strive for quantification). These studies, in particular, focused on menus and food-related items, which allows for some comparison.…”

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“…Similarly, Stoyanova (2013) investigated how dish names are translated from English to Romanian and Russian and summarized the most frequently applied strategies: transliteration, loan translation (calque), and descriptive translation. Setyaningsih (2020) also evaluated the translation practice of 21 traditional cuisine names in Indonesian hotel restaurant menus at Surabaya and found that exoticizing strategies accounted for only 9.5% of all procedures, while explicatory procedures account for 61.9%. Thus, the most frequently used method of translating Indonesian traditional food names into English is more leaned toward domestication strategy where the appearance of the food is described to assist target readers in recognizing it.…”

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The Translation of Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) in Chinese-English Food Menu Corpus: A Study of Strategies and Factors

Amenador

Wang

2022

Sage Open

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This study investigated how culture-specific items (CSIs) are translated in the Chinese-English food menu corpus. This overarching aim was divided into two specific objectives: identifying which procedures prevail in translating cultural items and determining what factors impinge on the selection of specific procedures. The analysis of the corpus was done descriptively and by utilizing “Sketch Engine.” The theoretical issues addressed in the study included the scope and definition of CSI, the categorization of procedures presented in the data for CSI translation, and the place of food items within the category of CSI. Results of the study indicated that neutralizing strategy is employed more than foreignizing and domesticating strategies, with the latter being last in descending order. The major factors identified were metonymical/metaphorical use of the CSI, brand, polysemous nature of source CSI, degree of cultural markedness, and false relationship of the ST item with the TT item. Correlations between some factors and procedures were moderately strong as their values were above 50 out of the ideal value (100). However, other correlations were weak and therefore requires further investigation.

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“…The translation of food names in menu requires translators to consider both the cultural associations embedded in the names, their meaning and function in the source language (SL) as well as the translatability of the terms in the target language (TL) (Setyaningsih, 2020). In the practice of menu translation, the translator should first ensure that the information functions.…”

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Balinese Food Menu in Translation

Pratama

2023

JKB

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Translation plays an important role in transferring the data among languages. Thus, translation is not just about translating languages, but also exploring cultures. This can be seen from the translation of traditional Balinese food menus which used to present various names of special dishes as part of Balinese local wisdom. The translation of traditional Balinese food menus is interesting to study since there are no professional translators involved in making it and the emergence of various technical terms are not easy to translate. This research was conducted with a qualitative descriptive method to analyze data and determine the translation strategy by considering the aspects of ingredients, taste, size, process, and shape. The theoretical framework by Newmark (1988) was applied to examine the data. The results of the analysis show that the food menu translation strategy which includes expansion and descriptive equivalent are based on several aspects of food menu translation.

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Food Name Translation Practice: A Case Study of Indonesian – English Menus

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Culturally based semantic losses in Lonely Planet’s travel guides translations for Beijing, Shanghai, and Sichuan

Culturally based semantic losses in Lonely Planet’s travel guides translations for Beijing, Shanghai, and Sichuan

The Translation of Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) in Chinese-English Food Menu Corpus: A Study of Strategies and Factors

Balinese Food Menu in Translation

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