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.
