Abstract
Translation studies, which was studied under the roof of linguistics until the middle of the twentieth century, has been treated as a separate branch of science over time. Linguistic-oriented approaches have great importance in the process of theorization of translational science. Anton Popovič’s “shift of expressions”, which are evaluated among linguistic translation approaches, focuses on translator preferences in translation review and considers translation as a process. In addition, they classified “shift of expressions” into five groups: constitutive, generic, individual, negative and topical shift. In this study, the translation of the story al-Adâ by Zakaria Tamer, one of the authors of Arabic literature, by Halim Öznurhan was evaluated within the framework of Popovič’s concept of “shift of expression”. In the research, it is aimed to determine the types of “shift of expression” in the translation work. Qualitative research method was used in the study based on interpretive paradigm. In obtaining the data on the theoretical framework of the study, various sources were used by applying to the literature review. In this direction, information was investigated within the framework of the concept of “shift of expression”, which constitutes the focus of the study. The data obtained from the sources with document analysis were examined by descriptive analysis method. As a result of the evaluation of the findings reached within the scope of the research, it was determined that the translator had individual and constitutive shift preferences in the translation. In this context, it has been observed that the target audience and target culture stand out and that some additions, subtractions and changes to the sentence type are included in the translation. As a result of the study, it is recommended to examine all types of shift of expression through other translations between the Arabic-Turkish language pair, to examine different strategies in the translation of other works of the author, and to reveal the similarities and differences in translations of languages belonging to the same language family in the context of the concept of “shift of expression”.