BACKGROUND According to general ethical and legal principles, valid consent must be obtained before starting any procedure. OBJECTIVES Due to the lack of a standard tool for assessing patients' capacity to consent to medical treatment in Iran, the present study was carried out aiming to devise a Persian version of a cross-cultural adaptation of the MacArthur competence assessment tool. PATI...

Translation is evaluated in terms of its forms and functions inside the historically developed systems of the receiving culture and literature. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Persian translation of the14th edition of the original English book “Principles of Marketing” written by Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong based on House (TQA) model: overt and covert translation distinction. T...

The article deals with the first translations of Grazia Deledda’s novel Canne al vento (1913) into French and Polish (Des roseaux sous le vent, 1919; Trzcina na wietrze, 1934). They are compared original in order to examine procedures by which image Sardinia inscribed work was rendered or distorted. culture-specific items taken consideration represent several cultural fields (religion beliefs, ...

Language and culture are closely related to each other. Language is part of the culture of people and the chief way by which the members of a society communicate. This paper will focus on the influence of culture on translation and provide us the semantic and pragmatic equivalence approaches in translation with large amounts of representative examples. Thus we can know the relation between cult...

Cultural confidence is a popular topic, which reflected in all aspects of social life, especially the field translation. In recent years, overall trend translation China has shifted from foreign famous works to domestic into languages, making Chinese culture go global. Among types translation, literary always difficult. Under guidance functional equivalence theory, application appropriate metho...