Foreignization and Domestication in the Kurdish Translation of the English Short Stories for Children

Translation in the field of children’s literature includes various dimensions and constraints that requires linguistic, ideological, cultural and stylistic aptness on the part of the translator. This reflects the fact that apart from entertaining, this domain is utilized for the child’s educational, religious and moral development over the phases of childhood as well. Besides, economics and ideology have significant roles in the establishment and availability of the translation of this type of genre nationally and internationally. This study, therefore, focuses on preliminary ideas concerning patterns of behavior in the translation of English literature written for children into Sorani Kurdish. It explores several strategies Kurdish translators follow to address various challenging paused by paradigmatic modification, with the aim to introduce translators who wish to translate for children, to the linguistic, stylistic, ideological and cultural differences specific to writing for children in certain cultures. To attain that, the study contemplates translated short stories written for children rather than instructive or information books. It strives to answer what paradigmatic shifts in reference to foreignization and domestication occurred in the Kurdish translation of English short stories written for children, against the backdrops of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). The study assumes that Kurdish translated texts in the domain of children’s literature lean towards domestication. The outcomes disclose that Kurdish translated texts have tendency towards domesticating strategy, meanwhile they are interested in making Kurdish young readers familiar with other cultures by choosing to have a high degree of foreignness in the Kurdish translated texts.