The critical analysis of linguistic and non-linguistic challenges in news text translation: a linguistic approach from Sinhala to Tamil

Abstract

This research paper is entitled "The critical analysis of Linguistic and Non-linguistic challenges of news text translation: A linguistic approach from Sinhala to Tamil”. This research aims to find out the challenges faced when translating the Sinhala newspaper into the Tamil language. The researcher applied the descriptive qualitative method to conduct this study. A translation test was used as an instrument to collect data for the research. The sample of 20 translated texts of the first-year undergraduates was the primary data of this research. Resource materials and books are considered secondary data. The results of this study demonstrate that the most common challenges encountered by undergraduate students in terminology are due to the fewer experiences and subject knowledge in the Sinhala language, which was the source language in the study. In analyzing the data, the researcher identified and classified the challenges based on their types. The analysis of the data portrayed the challenges faced by undergraduate students in translating news articles from Sinhala to Tamil. Based on the data analysis, the researcher found that the students encountered challenges in 38.34% of terminology, 34.34% of language structure, 15.65% of compound words, and 11.30% of idioms and expressions in linguistic problems. Accuracy 35.26%, Clarity 34.37%, and Style 30.35% were found out as non-linguistic problems.