http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/107 2026-04-08T20:04:00Z 2026-04-08T20:04:00Z Gayathree, S. http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/11460 2025-08-14T04:07:23Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Music as a Textual Enhancer: A Study of Utirippūkkaḷ Authors: Gayathree, S. Abstract: Screen Adaptation is cited as an example of intersemiotic adaptational ultrasemiotic category of translation. Within this dynamic landscape, the shift in sign systems unfolds certain textual enhancers with significant contributions. The resultant target text is embedded with layers of text. Music as a textual enhancer is one of the contemporary challenges in creative arts especially within the context of audio-visual narratives. This study intends to focus on the role of music as a textual enhancer in screen adaptation where the process is across different sets of semiotic signs and with embedded texts. Among various translations from a written text into an audiovisual text in Tamil milieu the translation from Ciṟṟaṉṉai into Utirippūkkaḷ is selected and this study embarks with the novella Ciṟṟaṉṉai and its translation Utirippūkkaḷ as a case study. The study endeavours to unravel the multifaceted role of music as a textual enhancer in the screen adaptation, a category of intersemiotic translation. This study aims to shed light on Music, the underlying text to understand how textual enhancers contribute in the process of intersemiotic translation. The source text and the translation are studied and descriptive method is employed to identify and discuss music as a textual enhancer.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Gayathree, S. http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/11459 2025-08-14T04:00:25Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Cultural Aspects and Literary Value of a Text: A Study on Enthaiyum Thaayum Authors: Gayathree, S. Abstract: Translation is the replacement of a piece from one language to another with the emphasis on the linguistic and the semantic aspects of translation. The notion meaning has been argued whether it is semantic or pragmatic or social and all these are combined under ‘cultural aspects’ of translation. Culture plays an extensive role in the process as well as the product of translation. The success of a translation depends upon making the readers to read the original by giving a complete picture of the original with the preservation of the style and manner and all the ease of the original. Literary translation which deals with the sense, feelings and aspiration of people could be possible only by an efficient literary personality. Translation is one of the factors defining cultural sustainability and reshaping the translators especially the literary translators, as human capitals may lead to a better future. This study focuses on ‘The Land of Our Parents’, the translation of ‘ve;ijAk; jhAk;’(EntaiyumTayum) which portrays the fragmentation of the nuclear family in Jaffna due to the Eezham war. The original play ‘ve;ijAk; jhAk;’ (EntaiyumTayum) and the translation ‘The Land of Our Parents’ are the primary sources for this study.The cultural aspects and literary value of the translation is viewed through the parameters of systemic functional approach. Six parameters of systemic functional approach are taken into consideration to see the strategies utilized by the translator with regard to the cultural aspects and literary values of the piece. Through descriptive methodology every parameter is exemplified and elucidated.This may be helpful to reshape the budding translators as human capitals to have a better future.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Gayathree, S. http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/11458 2025-08-14T03:55:47Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Proverbs in Translation: A Study Based on Some Identified Proverbs Authors: Gayathree, S. Abstract: Translation is indispensable towards the march of globalization. It is an art of reproducing the substance of the original in target language(s); first in terms of meaning then in terms of style. In a way translation is the replacement of textual material in one language by equivalent textual material in other language(s). Many aspects ought to be taken into consideration with keen attention in the process of translation. The original should be viewed from word-level to pragmatic-level. Finding an appropriate equivalent or substituting with an apt parallel is the first and foremost process. Translation involves the studying of the Lexicon, grammatical structure and cultural context of the source language text, analyzing it in order to determine its meaning and then reconstructing the very substance to suit the structure and cultural context of the target language without any shortcomings. Finding the apt equivalence is the most important procedure in translation. In order to do a translation a translator should be familiar with the cultural aspects of the source language as well as the target language. A language has strong influence on the traditions, norms and culture of the people who speak the language. As far as proverbs, idiomatic phrases and such cultural aspects are concerned they ought to be substituted with parallels.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Gayathree, S. http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/11457 2025-08-14T03:52:15Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The competency of the dictionaries compiled in jaffna: the 19th century efforts Authors: Gayathree, S. Abstract: Sustainable regional development requires emerging knowledge in Science, Technology, Arts and other fields. Translation plays a vital role with the march of time in order to be familiar with the latest developments and to cope with the dissemination of knowledge. Among all types of translation tools, dictionary is the most essential, prominent and very much supportive tool for translators. Valuable information and vital facts in dictionaries serve as a treasure trove for translators. The 19th century had been a period of vigorous translation activities in the Tamil world. With the advent of Westerners the present form of dictionaries was introduced in the Tamil milieu. Western scholars with the assistance of the native scholars involved themselves in the noble task of compiling authoritative dictionaries as the potential tool for translation. Translation may be enriched and embellished by employing the proper tool from the same milieu. This research aims at analysing the competency of the dictionaries, compiled in Jaffna in the 19th century, for Translation and this is based on descriptive and comparative methodologies. Especially the dictionaries compiled in Jaffna are taken into consideration in this study. The period of this research is limited to the 19th century. This research may facilitate translators by introducing the dictionaries, compiled in Jaffna

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