Applying Newmark's Five Cultural Categories on Persian Cultural Terms

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Nadia Ghazanfari Moghaddam
• Mohammad Reza Hashemi

Department of English, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v47i2.21062

Abstract

Language is a system by which all sorts of thoughts and concepts are transmitted and exchanged. On the other hand, translation performs like a tool which eases this exchange of information and makes it interculturally possible. Yet, the translation of cultural terms and concepts has always been a tricky area of translation practice, and for which numerous translation strategies have been proposed. Newmark has also contributed to this area of translation and suggested many strategies and even classifications. Newmark divides cultural terms and concepts into five categories which assumingly should apply for almost all cultural terms. Through a quantitative and qualitative study we attempted to investigate the application of Newmark's Cultural Categories on Persian cultural terms and concepts. To fulfill this aim, three short stories by Jalal- Ale- Ahmad ( which were enriched with cultural terms and concepts) were selected as the corpus of the present study. At the end, based on the extracted and later analyzed data, the five categories although quite handy, did not apply on all Persian cultural terms and concepts. Eventually, three categories were suggested to compensate the Newmark's model.

Keywords

• Cultural Caregories
• Newmark
• Jalal Al-Ahmad
• Translation
• Persian

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