Mir Saeed Mousavi Razavi
Department of English Translation Studies, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
[ 1 ] - Cultural Elements in the English Translations of the Iranian ‘Resistance’ Literature: A Textual, Paratextual, and Semiotic Analysis
The present corpus-based study addressed the strategies applied in translating the cultural elements (CEs) of the Iranian ‘resistance’ literature into English. The corpus comprised Chess with the Doomsday Machine, Eternal Fragrance, and Fortune Told in Blood translated by Sprachman, Omidvar, and Ghanoonparvar, re- spectively. The Persian books and their English translations were analyzed on thr...
[ 2 ] - شرح چیستی ساختارگرایی با اتکا به آرای سوسور، لوی استروس و پراپ، و واکاوی ردپای تفکر ساختارگرا در نظریه‌های معاصرترجمه
نوشتار پیش رو جستاری است نظری در باب پارادایم فکری «ساختارگرایی» به مثابه‌ی یکی از مهم‌ترین و تأثیرگذارترین جنبش-های فکری قرن بیستم میلادی که حتی امروز نیز بسیاری از پژوهش‌ها در حوزه‌های مختلف علم متأثر از بنیان‌های فکری آن صورت می‌گیرد. این نوشتار به دو بخش اصلی تقسیم می شود؛ در بخش اول پس از بیان زمینه‌ی تاریخی شکل‌گیری ساختارگرایی، برخی از اساسی‌ترین ریشه‌های نظری و بنیان‌های فکری آن را با ا...
[ 3 ] - A Micro- and Macro-Level Descriptive-Analytical Study of Translation Criticism in Iran: Are We Moving within a Framework?
The present corpus-driven study addresses the current situation of translation criticisms published in print or online in the Iranian media. A sample of 17 criticisms (roughly 68,000 words altogether) from a variety of valid media outlets was compiled. Having been categorized into those with, and those without an ex- plicit theoretical framework, the criticisms were examined on two levels...
[ 4 ] - Quality Assessment of English-into-Persian Translations of Tourism Management Academic Textbooks
This paper addresses the quality of the Persian translations of 32 English tourism textbooks. The qual- ity was assessed at sentence-level and page-level by the researchers and from the viewpoint of a tour- ism management student. In Phase 1, the quality of one randomly selected sentence from each text- book was assessed applying Hurtado Albir‘s analytical model; two were acc...
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