over the past one hundred and fifty years, due to a huge number of translations from different languages into persian, certain norms of language use have changed and certain others are in the process of changing. as one of the most frequent syntactic properties of most languages, especially english, the nominal style is a most likely candidate for transfer through translation into persian, a la...

The present study sets out to investigate whether the position of literary works in the English literary polysystem influences the Iranian translators’ translational behavior at the textual level. Given the prominent position of canon and bestseller novels in English literary polysystem, the study intends to find out whether the translators of canon and bestseller novels are faithful to theirso...

The theories and application of translation have been investigated primarily from the perspective researchers, accredited translators, teachers, trainers. This study examines lenses through which students are motivated to embark on journey translation. Whereas has long considered be an art in translators principally rely their talent passion, or a profession practitioners expected acquired nece...

Translation of legal texts requires special attention and great accuracy. In words have connotations consequences, which enable either to protect the interests entities individuals, or, on contrary, violate their rights. Inappropriate translations cause misunderstanding vagueness, is unacceptable in this type texts. The compendium Iran based general law jurisprudential principles. lack bilingua...

Translators face a number of difficulties while translating. Not only translation of cultural elements is of utmost importance in translation studies, but also it is an arduous task for translators, especially in the case of interlingual translation. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is culture-specific items amongst which taboo expressions are included. This study aimed at...

This research study aimed to show what strategies the translators used in their translations ofDivorce Surah of the Holy Quran. The model adopted by the researcher is based on Vinay andDarbelnet’s (1958) and Munday’s (2008) concept of cohesion. To this end, two Persian translationsby Elahi Ghomshei (2015) and Foladvand (2014) and two English translations by A. J. Arberry(2007) and Yusuf Ali (19...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

The main purpose of this paper is to throw some light on applied strategies at an idiomatic expressional level in a contrastive analysis framework by investigating the cultural-bound Brida novel Paulo Coelho from English translation into Persian. It worthy point out that theoretical present based Baker’s (2011) model rendering expressions. Further, within text, there are certain comparisons whi...