the purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (gollan, forster, & frost, 1997). two groups of persian-speaking english language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in persian-english and english-persian directions ...

even though some scholars do not agree on the direct link between globalization and translation, most others believe that the process of globalization has influenced translation practices over time. the present research, thus, endeavors to probe into the nature of these impacts and shed some light on the manifestations of globalization trend in the translations of literary texts. to this aim, t...

Translation of humor and transferring its effect is one of the most challenging tasks of a translator due to the cultural clashes between the source language (SL) and the target language (TL). Accordingly, the pre- sent study aimed to specify the most frequently applied strategies in terms of Delabastita’s wordplay model used in SL and their translation strategy by Persian translators acc...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (Gollan, Forster, & Frost, 1997). Two groups of Persian-speaking English language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in Persian-English and English-Persian directions with...

This study investigated the translation strategies of culture-specific items in translation of 'Othello' by William Shakespeare into Persian by Abdolhossein Nooshin. First, the English culture-specific items and their corresponding translations were identified. Then, the frequency of the strategies used by the translator according to Newmark's translation model and Venuti's domestication and fo...

In this paper, an attempt to develop a phrase-based statistical machine translation between English and Persian languages (PersianSMT) is described. Creation of the largest English-Persian parallel corpus yet presented by the use of movie subtitles is a part of this work. Two major goals are followed here: the first one is to show the main problems observed in the output of the PersianSMT syste...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we reported the reliability and validity of Bedside version of Persian WAB (P-WAB-1) adapted from Western Aphasia Battery (WAB-R) (1,2). P-WAB-1 is a clinical linguistic measuring tool to determine severity and type of aphasia in brain damaged patients based on Aphasia Quotient (AQ) as a functional measure. For the purposes of a quick clinical screening of aphasia in...

this study focused on the role of appropriate equivalence selection of colors in the field of advanced pranic healing (aph), based on mona baker’s equivalence, both at word level and above word level. the partici- pants included 40 bachelor’s students studying in the field of english translation. participants received the colors’ translation test (ctt) included in the book “advanced pranic heal...

the present paper is the result of the surveys done on the translation of the robaiyyat-e hakim omar khayyam sera'iki language. these translations that are mostly done on the basis of valid and authentic texts both in the persian and english languages, can be divided into two categories: i. translation into prose of the robaiyyat ii. translation into verse of the robaiyyat together with ex...