This thesis is a case study of domestication and foreignization in two Dutch literary works: De avond is ongemak by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated into English as The Discomfort of Evening by...Show moreThis thesis is a case study of domestication and foreignization in two Dutch literary works: De avond is ongemak by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated into English as The Discomfort of Evening by Michele Hutchison, and Boven is het stil by Gerbrand Bakker, translated into English as The Twin by David Colmer. Drawing on the work of Venuti, Van Poucke, and Molina and Hurtado Albir, an attempt is made in this thesis to operationalize the concepts of domestication and foreignization to estimate the degree to which the translations of these two novels may be considered domesticised and/or foreignized. Fifty sentences –randomly selected from each translation– were analysed for signs of domestication and foreignization and scored accordingly. This qualitative research was followed up with limited quantitative corpus research looking for further support of the tentative conclusion that The Discomfort of Evening might be domesticated to a higher degree than The Twin.Show less
