Translation Studies
Mahbube Noura; Seyyed Mohammadreza Hashemi
Abstract
This research aims to investigate the extent to which word choice in translation is influenced by intra-textual or extra-textual factors, or whether the use of bilingual dictionary equivalents is adequate for the translator. To this end, the translation of two common adjectives, “Good” and ...
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This research aims to investigate the extent to which word choice in translation is influenced by intra-textual or extra-textual factors, or whether the use of bilingual dictionary equivalents is adequate for the translator. To this end, the translation of two common adjectives, “Good” and “Bad”, in the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was analyzed. The findings revealed that word choice in translation is predominantly intra-textual, and that extra-textual word choice, i.e., word choice based on bilingual dictionaries, is not effective in translation - especially in literary translation. The translator mainly relies on the text and the relations in it to select the appropriate words, and this is more evident in the case of some linguistic features of the text. One of these linguistic features is the collocational relation between words, which plays a crucial role in determining the meaning and affecting its textuality.
Maryam Ghodrati; Mohamamd Reza Hashemi; Omid Azadibougar
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In the Iranian Constitutional Revolution period, intellectuals played an important role in the creation of changes in the society, and to some degree translation and writing accomplished this mission. There has been much research concerning the role of translation in transferring the contemporary modernity ...
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In the Iranian Constitutional Revolution period, intellectuals played an important role in the creation of changes in the society, and to some degree translation and writing accomplished this mission. There has been much research concerning the role of translation in transferring the contemporary modernity in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Yet, the research has failed to offer a translational account of this issue. To fill this gap, it is advisable to examine the issue of modernity from a translation perspective, hence a cross-comparison of translations with original texts can yield new insights. Drawing on Skopos theory and the discourse of modernity, the present investigation attempts to examine modernity in Gil Blas, the novel by Alain-René Lesage along with its translation by Habib Esfahani. The results of the study suggest that despite the important role of translation in igniting some changes, the translation failed to have a successful performance in complete and accurate transfer of modernity ideas.
Nadia Ghazanfari Moghaddam; Mohammad Reza Hashemi
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 ...
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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.
