Translation in Arabic language and literature
Narges Khosravi Savadjani; Roghayeh Rostampour Maleki
Abstract
The stanza form of the contemporary poem doesn't have any predetermined format and it is the poet who designs its written structure based on his intended meanings. In Umberto Eco's cultural semiotics, images and forms can be studied in the form of "stylization" and "invention". The present article having ...
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The stanza form of the contemporary poem doesn't have any predetermined format and it is the poet who designs its written structure based on his intended meanings. In Umberto Eco's cultural semiotics, images and forms can be studied in the form of "stylization" and "invention". The present article having a descriptive-analytical approach and relying on the semiotic opinions of Umberto Eco, has examined the reflection of contemporary Arabic poetry in Persian translation. The research data were chosen from the collection of Al-Ketab: Past Place Now (2018), which is translated by Amir Hossein Allahyari from Al-Ketab: Ams Al-Makan Alaan Adonis. The writing form and format chosen by Adonis to write the poems in the Al-ketab contains many meanings and has served the meanings of the poetic text. The results of the study indicate that Adonis started innovating and styling by writing Al-ketab in manuscript format and using norm deviation in the written form. In many cases, Allahyari has not succeeded in conveying these two ways of sign production to the target text. Sometimes, he has produced innovations and stylistics in the target text that were not used in the original poem in order to better convey the content of the poem.
Abdulali Aleboyeh Langrudi; Sarieh Sheikhi Ghalat
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Language is a symbolic system for communication. In order for the messages to be conveyed successfully between the interlocutors, it is sometimes necessary to be accompanied by certain signs so that the recipient of the message receives what was exactly meant by the addresser. This process in Arabic ...
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Language is a symbolic system for communication. In order for the messages to be conveyed successfully between the interlocutors, it is sometimes necessary to be accompanied by certain signs so that the recipient of the message receives what was exactly meant by the addresser. This process in Arabic and Persian is known as “Emphasizing or the Emphasis” which based on the six functions proposed by Jakobson for verbal communication are mainly manifested in conative and referential functions. This study, using an inductive-inferential research design within a linguistic approach, tried to investigate the functions of the emphatic devices as tools, function words and style in the contemporary Arabic language while finding their Persian equivalents. To this end, it focused on two books of “The Days” by Taha Husain and “An Introduction to Arab Poetics” by Adonis. These two are prominent contemporary writers and their prose is considered as standard prose by most literary critics. The findings revealed that the emphatic tools have lost their emphatic role in modern Arabic and are solely used for the sake of textual coherence; therefore, there is no equivalent for them in Persian. The emphatic role of some of these words such as “Ghad” have been fainted and just play a role in determining the type of the verb. Another group of them like “Emphatic N” is rarely used in modern texts. However, emphatic styles have still kept their emphatic role and their equivalents can be easily found in Persian.
