Translation in Arabic language and literature
Oveis Mohammadi; Lachan Allaghi; Mohammad Mahdi Taheri
Abstract
The language of Hafez's poetry is very delicate and mysterious. In his sonnets (Qazals), the words have been accurately selected with great aesthetic taste. In such a way, all the words are somehow connected and intertwined with each other. One of the linguistic features of Hafez is the collocation of ...
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The language of Hafez's poetry is very delicate and mysterious. In his sonnets (Qazals), the words have been accurately selected with great aesthetic taste. In such a way, all the words are somehow connected and intertwined with each other. One of the linguistic features of Hafez is the collocation of oppositions together. Oppositions used in Hafez's poems not only have explicit and implicit semantic connections but also are related to other words. Therefore, understanding the conceptual relationship of words, and in particular, oppositions, plays a great role in discovering the meaning and the elegance of Hafez's poetry. Hence, in this study, an attempt has been made to select examples of "gradable, complementary, symmetrical, directional, lexical, and implicit” oppositions in Hafez's sonnets. Also, the conceptual relationship with other words of the verse will be analyzed and its semantic and aesthetic function will be explained. Subsequently, Ali Abbas Zoleikhe's translation of semantic oppositions and their functions will be discussed and criticized. The results of the research indicate that the oppositions in question, especially implicit oppositions, have created many clear and hidden rhetorical meanings in poetry and the slightest change in the oppositions and balance of words leads to the reduction of coherence and meaning of the verse.
Ahmad Heidari; Aliasghar Ghahramani Moghbel; Nasser Zare; Moslem Zamani
Abstract
Theoreticians have regarded poem translation as the most challenging types of translation. The term ‘untranslatable’ is the title, which implies a challenge in this literary work. The challenge is due to the occurrence of major changes in the form and structure of poetry translation, which ...
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Theoreticians have regarded poem translation as the most challenging types of translation. The term ‘untranslatable’ is the title, which implies a challenge in this literary work. The challenge is due to the occurrence of major changes in the form and structure of poetry translation, which departs it from the original text. The literary elegance and intricacy of the poem have encouraged the translation theorists to evaluate the translation from the equality and balance gate regarding the form and structure and pay special attention to the different linguistic forms of two languages (source and target) in the translation process. In this article, using a descriptive-analytical method and comparing the source and target texts, we aim to examine the principle of quantity as one of the important principles in creating equilibrium and equality between source and target texts. At that point, the concept ‘quantity’ in Abu al-Fath al-Busti (4th century) Nuniyyah’s translation from Arabic to Persian is evaluated. This elegy has been translated to Persian by Badredin Jajarmi - semi-free translation - in the 7th century. The results indicate that; although the translator has attempted to keep quantity, the linguistic system features of target language have led him to quantitative increasing. The quantitative increase is evident in two levels of lexicon and semantics in the translation.
