the main concern of the present study was to compare the frequency of the use of semantic adjustment strategies in versed and free-verse styles in the english translations of hafez poetry. the focus of the comparison was the number of expansion and reduction strategies employed in these translations. the corpus of the study comprised two translations of hafez poetry; one was a versed translatio...

this paper examines th e styl e of sale h hosseini a s a literary translator in his p ersian translation of f aulkner 's the sound and the fury in the light of baker 's universals of translation . first , the paper discusses why in the field of translation the translator 's style seems to be less important than that of the original writer . the paradoxical issue is that if the wr...

it is evident for everyone that translation is of importance in communication. the reason is due to the fact that translation is considered both as a building bridge and a common bond among various cultures and people around the world. many researchers and theorists in the translation field consider style in the literary translation as a significant subject. the present study tries to evaluate ...

an important part of iranian literary and historical background is remained in works had been translated or adopted from other texts written in other languages. they were done by translators, called “mirzas”, who were masters in persian literature. their writing style was completely matched with the style of their period. qajar’s era is considered as a prominent period in both french and englis...

extended abstract 1. introduction according to toury (1995), translation is a norm-based behavior. in the course of their direct and indirect trainings, translators familiarize themselves with the linguistic, cultural and social norms which are used by the contemporary translators and later, as professional translators, use them consciously or unconsciously in their translations. in other words...

This study investigated learning style preferences among professional translators. The purposes of the study were to (a) find the prevailing learning style among the Iranian professional translators; (b) reveal any significant difference in the translators’ learning style preferences in terms of gender; and (c) find any significant difference between individual learning style and translation co...