DO MANUALS DEVELOP “TRANSLATION COMPETENCE”? TRANSLATION COMPETENCE: PARADIGMS REDEFINED Mine YAZICI1

In the last twenty years, although the number of translation manuals declines in the West, it inclines in Turkey. Although the underlying reason for this may be the use of such manuals as tools of language learning for a long period of time, the main reason can be related to the conventional learning habits in Turkey. This paper deals with one of the the best selling translation manuals in Turkey as the representative of the whole corpus setting out from the hypothesis “whether manuals’ not developing translation competence ” is something peculiar to Turkey, or it is related with the features of manuals as a “text type”. For this purpose, first a comparative analysis is conducted in both Turkish and Western manuals to rationalize retrospectively to what extent they have met the expectations of the target language not only in Turkey, but also in the West; next, the paper will focus on the features of text types that serve best for translation didactics with prospective ends. Key Words: Performative skills, translation competence, translation manuals, mental procedures, text level. ÖZET Türkiye’de çeviri kılavuzlarının sayısının her geçen gün artmasına karşın Batıda bu kaynakların sayılarının azaldığı görülmektedir. Buna bir neden olarak çevirinin uzun yıllar dil öğrenim aracı olarak kullanılma geleneği gösterilebileceği gibi, bir başka neden olarak da Türkiye’de yerleşmiş öğrenme alışkanlıkları da gösterilebilir. Ancak, bu yazıda Türkiye’deki çeviri kılavuzlarını temsil etmek üzere en ço