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.
Hossein Mohseni; Amin Sheikh Bagheri
Abstract
Translation, as one of the leading means of transmitting cultures among nations, is a challenging field in the field of comparative literature. The existence of multiple layers of meaning between the main and virtual meanings of poetic words and the unfamiliarity of translators with the semantic rotation ...
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Translation, as one of the leading means of transmitting cultures among nations, is a challenging field in the field of comparative literature. The existence of multiple layers of meaning between the main and virtual meanings of poetic words and the unfamiliarity of translators with the semantic rotation between words and meanings in verses prevent the correct transmission of poets’ thoughts to the audience in literary texts. Among the famous Iranian poets, the translation of Hafez's poems, due to the interpretability of existing concepts and lexical localization, requires the translator to be more careful in his intellectual layers, cultural requirements, and religious beliefs. This research is based on the descriptive-analytical method and investigates the pathology of translating multi-layered concepts of words and poetic idioms of Hafez in the Arabic translations of "Ibrahim Amin Al-Shawarbi" and "Ali Abbas Zuleikha" according to Catford's theory of formal changes in the lexical, grammatical, omission, and addition sections. The results of this research show the complete failure of the above-mentioned translators in translating the multi-layered meanings of Hafez's poetic terms, and the neglect of paying attention to the semantic rotations of the terms has been identified as the main cause of this issue.
