Reza Nazemian; Zohreh Ghorbani
Volume 3, Issue 9 , December 2014, , Pages 85-102
Abstract
Looking for a lexical or grammatical equivalence is a mental process which occurs in different layers of the mind. For the novice translator, who has not gained much experience, looking for equivalences and translation occurs in the first mental layer. Influenced by the translation of old texts, the ...
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Looking for a lexical or grammatical equivalence is a mental process which occurs in different layers of the mind. For the novice translator, who has not gained much experience, looking for equivalences and translation occurs in the first mental layer. Influenced by the translation of old texts, the novice translator learns to write down the meaning of every word under it. He is afraid of carefully delving into the meaning of the words, and writing down the different equivalences that come into his mind.This article seeks to find some methods and approaches to translate a text fluently while maintaining accuracy. The goal of this paper is to wipe out the complexities and uncertainties that formerly overrode the translated texts so that the readers of the translation experience the same joy and entertainment that the readers of the original text experience. The overall objective of the suggested methods for finding equivalents is to decrease the dominance of the original text over the reader to the least possible degree.
Reza Nazemiyan; Hesam Hajmomen; Mohammad Jamshid
Volume 3, Issue 6 , March 2013, , Pages 49-68
Abstract
Relevance Theory is one of the most efficient approaches in examining the relationship between texts and the way they are perceived by the audience. Considering the fact that religious texts address a general audience, the present paper aims to study the factors which increase or decrease the relevance ...
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Relevance Theory is one of the most efficient approaches in examining the relationship between texts and the way they are perceived by the audience. Considering the fact that religious texts address a general audience, the present paper aims to study the factors which increase or decrease the relevance level of the religious texts translated to Persian as well as the procedures of enhancing the relevance level for Persian-speaking audiences. To this end, 5 context-based Quranic verses as well as their corresponding translations were analyzed. This qualitative study was conducted in the framework of discourse analysis and contextual analysis. The analysis included seven questions which revealed key concepts in each verse. All translations were analyzed based on those key concepts and, therefore, the factors influencing the extent of processing efforts were identified. Thus, through a pathology of the necessity of high processing efforts by the audience in perceiving religious texts, the study analyzed the performance of translators in providing necessary assumptions to the audience in order to decrease the processing efforts and increase the relevance of the text.
