PRAGMATIC ADAPTATION IN TRANSLATION: AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND URDU VERSIONS OFMANTO’S قالةًا طزخ THE RED REVOLUTION

This article examines the comparison between source and target text of Manto’s Manto’s قالةًا سزخ The Red

Revolution. This work presents a study of Urdu to English translation of “The Red Revolution”. The research aims

to find out the instances in target text where translation differences occur. For the analysis of the data Vehmas

Lehtos Model of pragmatic adaptation was used. Four major kinds of pragmatic adaptation that were addition,

omission, substitution and change of order used to study the changes in the target text. The focus of the study was to

check the meaning of source text weather meaning was exactly conveyed in target text or not. This analysis shows

that among the four types of adaptation, addition is most frequent type used in the target text. Translator made these

changes to keep the sense of original text maintained. After the addition, substitution is mostly used in the target

text. Omission on the other hand was less observed in the target text. Fourth kind that changed the order was used

but in a very small amount. The analysis showed that translator although make changes in target text, but he was

successfully able to convey the sense of source text in the target text to a great extant.