STUDIES ON GENDER ASPECT IN THE FIELD OF UZBEK AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
By: Khursandova Madina
Uzbekistan State World Languages University
1st year Master’s student of the Department of Interpretation
E-mail madinaxursandova058@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Studies indicate that the use of powerful speech makes the speaker appear more authoritative and credible. The article discusses the problem of gender aspect, its emergence and formation, primarily in the Uzbek-language literature; its analysis and brief description; analyzes the specifics of gender noisy speech on the material of the Uzbek language; the subject of the study was the Uzbek speech of the husband and wife, mother and son, mother and daughter in the form of brief dialogues; the dominant specificity of female speech is determined by shyness, belief in husband, diminutive affection, respect, deference, etc.; male Uzbek speech is characterized by some categoricality, brevity, combined with respect and attention ability to talk to the interlocutor. The results of our investigation indicate that there are few significant differences between the language used by women and that used by men in this particular situation.
Keywords: gender, male, female, Uzbek, husband, wife, son, daughter, gender neutral.
Gender aspect is currently a relevant and interesting direction in the science of language. Research in Gender Aspect are carried out practically on the material of all modern written languages. From childhood males and females are different in many ways, both physiologically and psychologically. Although men and women, from a given social class, belong to the same speech community, they may use different linguistic forms. The linguistic forms used by women and men contrast to some extent in all speech communities. women, in comparison to men, have better memory. Men are quite accurate in maintaining a sense of direction but women are not. This is consistent with the claim that men tend to do better than women on visual-spatial tests and in mathematics .
Below we will briefly analyse the usage of gender aspect in Uzbek literature, how they have been translated into English and compare the differences between the speech of Uzbek man and woman; some challenges we can face while translating them.
I referred to Gafur Gulam`s story “ Shum bola” (A Naughty boy). It is clear that in his work Gafur Gulom paid more attention to our nationality and it made it a bit difficult to translate into English or to find appropriate equivalent of some gender based word used by uzbek peope which are not usually used by other nations. For example:
Asra!
Yoki:
Kal! – deyishi bilan:
Labbay, mulla aka, choymi chillimmi? – deyar edi.
In the example abow, the writer used the word “mulla aka” to addreess uzbek man instead of using his name or a pronoun “you”. In our country It is usual for males to call each other with such kind of words. However, translation of them can be a real gender-based problem for translaters. The following translation is from the book which was translated by I.M. Tukhtasinov in 2017.
Asra!
Or:
Hey Baldy!
And as soon as they would say it, he would reply:
Yes, Dear brother, would you like some tea or hookah?
In this example, “dear brother” was an appropriate way of translation for people who doesn`t use “mulla aka” to address males in their country.
For the next sake of argument, let’s talk about the translation of Oybek’s novel “Navoi”. In the novel, the writer painted a complex picture of the history of our people in the XV century through the interpretation of the image of the great poet. Oybek perfectly described the great qualities of Navoi. This artistic perfection in the novel is reflected in the scenes in which all the stages of Navoi’s life are depicted. Importantly, the differences between cultures require the translator to have a deep linguistic knowledge as well as an awareness of the cultures of the peoples. For example, Uzbek cultural norms are undoubtedly different from American culture. For example, the only word “Borakallo!”. As can be seen from our example, even if the creator does not give any information about who said the word, his gender, age, the reader will easily understand that the author of the sentence is an older man. It is the real art of the translator to convey the same situation to a foreign reader.
“Barakallo, bu yerdagi ishlardan aql hurkadi!”
“Well, well! Local affairs can come in horror”
- Kvirk in the university English grammar gives classification of correlation of pronouns of the third party of a singular with zoonims. R. Kvirk notices that names of the higher animals correspond with that or other pronoun (he or she), first of all, depending on a gender of an animal and its practical importance for the person as for many animals there are words, both for a designation of the individual of a male, and for a designation of the individual of a female (for example, bull – cow, stallion – mare, tiger – tigress, etc.); And the lowest animals, according to classification of Kvirka, correspond with a neutral gender pronoun (it).
In “Navoi” we find poems in the Persian-Tajik language;
Hech kasro nazdi dud naguzoshti,
In du shohi gov gar har doshti.
We can see that it is translated into Uzbek as follows:
Agar eshakni xo’kiz kabi shohlari bo’lsa,
Hech kim unga yaqinlashmasligi kerak edi.
In English:
If a donkey had ox’s horns,
It would not let anybody come close to it.
As mentioned above, “ it” is neutral gender pronoun that can be mostly used when we doesnot know the gender of the animal.
Conclusion
In short, the skill of the translator is the most important feature, which can also complement the level of the work.Translating a historical work like “Navoi” from Uzbek into English is not an easy task, it is very difficult and labor-intensive. So, this English translation of Oybek’s novel “Navoi” is a great event in today’s Uzbek translation. The topical issues of gender translation mentioned above have not always lost their value. The more translations are made from the original into the target language, the more criticism is made and the basis for the creation of new rules, guidelines, recommendations for the theory of translation. At present, the works “Last Days”, “Navoi”, “Shum Bola” are published in English. These works are a prelude to our future work, and it is not surprising that they contribute to such great goals as the delivery of classics of Uzbek literature to the world.
References:
A naughty boy. Gafur Gulam/Translators: I.M. Tukhtasinov. U.R. Yuldoshev. Toshkent. Yangi asr avlodi 2017. 128 pages.
https://repo.journalnx.com/index.php/nx/article/view/1448
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NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS JournalNX- A Multidisciplinary Peer Reviewed Journal ISSN No:2581 – 4230 VOLUME 6, ISSUE 5, May -2020
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