Translation Studies
Somaye Delzendehrooy
Abstract
The initiation of translation from European languages in Iran during the Qajar era was driven by the need to acquire new sciences. This motive remains as one of the primary drivers for translation, particularly from European languages, to this day. Therefore, examining the agency of translation in introducing ...
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The initiation of translation from European languages in Iran during the Qajar era was driven by the need to acquire new sciences. This motive remains as one of the primary drivers for translation, particularly from European languages, to this day. Therefore, examining the agency of translation in introducing various sciences to Iran seems essential. This study investigates the agency of translation in facilitating the academic introduction of psychology to Iran during the 1960s. It focuses on the institutions, such as the Safialishah Publication and the Kaviyan journal, and individuals, including the Moshfegh Hamedani brothers and Ali-Akbar Kasmaei, who had agency in this process from 1920-1960. A detailed examination of the translated works along with the activities of these key figures, as well as a study of their introductions, reveals the significant role that translation and translators played in laying the groundwork for the academic establishment of psychology in Iran.
Somaye Delzendehrooy; Helen Ouliaeinia
Abstract
In discussing the notion of style, whether in literary or linguistic studies, we are in fact referring to the author's language habits. That is why we can assign each writer a particular style and call that style in the name of its author, for example, Shakespearian, Joycean, or Woolfian style. Given ...
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In discussing the notion of style, whether in literary or linguistic studies, we are in fact referring to the author's language habits. That is why we can assign each writer a particular style and call that style in the name of its author, for example, Shakespearian, Joycean, or Woolfian style. Given that modality and the repetitive use of modal verbs and adverbs is a determinant factor for the fictional universe represented by Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, this study aims to examine what the Persian translators do with these terms and whether their choices contribute to a change in the fictional universe represented in the texts and change the ‘feel’ of the text. To this end Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and its two Persian translations, one by Daryoush (1977) خیزابها and the other by Najafipour (1990) امواج, are selected and Bosseaux’s model (2004), based on Simpson’s model of a grammar of modality (1997) is chosen to see how the translators handle certain modals. The results showed that modality, i.e. the personal obligations, negative shading, possibilities, capacities and abilities of the focalizing characters are less emphasized in the translations than in the original but Daryoush translates them more systematically than Najafipour.
