بررسی مقابله ای زبان شناختی متغیرهای جامعه شناختی—فاصله اجتماعی وقدرت—ادب: مطالعه مورد جین ایر و سه ترجمه فارسی آن

even though, to date, a lot of studies have been conducted on the subject of politeness theory, there are very few studies regarding the applicability of this theory to translation between english and persian which shows the reason behind conducting the present study. this study was carried out with the aim of highlighting whether there is any difference between english and persian methods of using the politeness strategies that may lead to a difficulty of translation in the context of novel translation. further, it attempted to assess the quality of three different translations of the same specified novel, i.e. jane eyre, from english into persian. in order to answer the first question, brown and levinson’s politeness theory was utilized along with farahzad’s principles of translation quality assessment as the frameworks of analysis. to increase the consistency of the ratings, besides the researcher, two more raters were asked to assess the quality of translations. the data gathered, then, were put to spss software to calculate the inter-rater reliability. as to the first question, the results showed that there was relatively no difficulty in translating politeness strategies from english into persian. as to the second question, the results showed that the three persian translations of the novel were of different levels of quality. the results of this study can be used for different purposes such as translator training, literary translation courses, discourse analysis courses, and second language learning and teaching. the pragmatic results will also broaden the information as to the politeness theory in pragmatics.