Translation in Arabic language and literature
Hamed Sedghi; Seyed Adnan Eshkevari; Saadollah Homayooni; Zahra Mahdavimehr
Abstract
The marked information structure is one of the topics addressed by functional linguists which has also attracted the attention of translation theorists. Among the marked syntactic structures are topicalization and focalization, in which the topic and focus are removed from their original position in ...
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The marked information structure is one of the topics addressed by functional linguists which has also attracted the attention of translation theorists. Among the marked syntactic structures are topicalization and focalization, in which the topic and focus are removed from their original position in the sentence and placed in another position, for example, at the beginning of the sentence. Considering that in terms of information structure, shifting in sentence elements and marking creates more semantic load; understanding this issue is especially important in translating religious texts and requires more accuracy of the translator and knowledge and observance of the structure of the two languages of destination and origin. Because two propositions may have the same meaning in appearance but have different meanings in terms of communication and verbal. The present study, based on the method of content analysis and with a comparative approach, and relying on Lambreckt's theory, has examined and analyzed Garmaroodi's translation of Jihad's sermon in terms of translation of marked structures. The results show that the translator has not been very successful in translating these structures in general and has translated most of these structures into Persian as unmarkers. Of course, this has not harmed the fluency of his translation, but undoubtedly, has damaged the precise transmission of some of the communicative meanings of the text, from the point of view of information structure due to the change of structures from marking to unmarking.
Fatemeh Akbarizadeh; Farideh Haghbin; Fatemeh Rezaei
Abstract
With regads to the achievements of role-oriented linguistics science, understsnding message and information as the speaker communicate with his/her audience is impossible only to have linguistic knowledge and acquaintance with the meaning of the vocabulary and phrases as well as acquaintance with the ...
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With regads to the achievements of role-oriented linguistics science, understsnding message and information as the speaker communicate with his/her audience is impossible only to have linguistic knowledge and acquaintance with the meaning of the vocabulary and phrases as well as acquaintance with the apparent statement of sentence, but various linguistic forms according to their communicative role in different situation form different structures which is known as information structure. Among these information structures are focalization. Shahrdzad and Tofigholhakim's play is considered in Arabic literature as a literary work includes marked information structure that its exact translation is so important to translate the meaning desired by the author, so the research needs to find out whether the marked information structures from target language marked in the same way and based on situational texture has been translated into persian language or not. For this purpose marked information structures for Shahzad's play in Arabic language are against the Persian translation of two translators Ayati and Shariat. With regards to purposeful translation in order to transfer meaning desired by the author to a reader in target language; descriptive - analytic method was used. The results indicate that the tanslators of play through translation have used unmarked sentences. Few sentences have been translated into marked form. Though despite the differences in marked structures in both languages a translator by recognizing linguistic forms in focalized information structure and left dislocation can find relatively strong equation for the structures.
