Sociolinguistics as a Crucial Factor in Translation and Analysis of Texts: A Systematic Review

Abstract

This systematic review discusses sociolinguistics as a crucial factor in the translation and analysis of texts. It mainly directs to synthesizing relevant studies and literature on Sociolinguistics as a crucial factor that affects the process of translation, translation studies, and analysis of texts. Sociolinguistics plays a vital role in the translation process. It defines what is adequate to be translated through selection, filtering, and even censorship. Problems in translation may occur when a text is translated without sufficient knowledge of the source language’s cultural and social identity. However, since the cultural approach in translation has received criticisms previously, there is a call for more information that can contribute to the existing knowledge on how it still could be improved. Hence, this systematic review gathered and scrutinized recent and relevant studies from various databases that present translation using cultural lenses and paradigms as well as translation inconsistencies. The collected studies consist of qualitative and quantitative studies. This review reiterates Sociolinguistics as a fresh perspective and crucial factor in translation, including analysis of texts. The study's subjects include a variety of pragmatic factors that influence the essence of translation as a communicative process: the translator's ideologies and bias toward the target audience: the pragmatics of source Text and Translated Text language units, including the role of gender in translation which all correlate with social and situation stratification.