Assessing the Quality of Persian Translation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Based on House’s Model: Overt-Covert Translation Distinction

Authors

  • Amir Hossein Taherioun Department of Foreign Languages, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
  • Azizeh Chalak Department of Foreign Languages, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
  • Hossein Heidari Tabrizi Department of Foreign Languages, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract:

This study aimed to assess the quality of Persian translation of Orwell's (1949) Nineteen Eighty-Four by Balooch (2004) based on House's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. To do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. The profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. The source text profile was compared to the translation text profile. The result of this comparison was dimensional mismatches and overt errors. The dimensional mismatches were categorized based on different dimensions of register including field, tenor, and mode. The overt errors which were based on denotative mismatches and target system errors were categorized into omissions, additions, substitutions, and breaches of the target language system. Then, the frequencies of occurrences of subcategories of overt errors along with their percentages were calculated. The overt errors and dimensional errors were analyzed carefully. The dimensional mismatches as well as a large number of major overt errors such as omissions and substitutions indicated that the translation was not in accordance with the House's view stating that literary works needed to be translated overtly. In other words, mismatches on different levels of register showed that the cultural filter was applied in translation and the second-level functional equivalence required for overt translation was not reached. As a result, the Persian translation of Nineteen Eighty-Four did not fulfill the criteria to be an overt translation. Instead, this translation tended to be a covert one.

Upgrade to premium to download articles

Sign up to access the full text

Already have an account?login

similar resources

assessing the quality of persian translation of orwell’s nineteen eighty-four based on house’s model: overt-covert translation distinction

this study aimed to assess the quality of persian translation of orwell's (1949) nineteen eighty-four by balooch (2004) based on house's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. to do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. the profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. the source text profile was compared to the transl...

full text

The Quality Assessment of the Persian Translation of “The Graveyard” Based on House's Translation Quality Assessment Model

The notion of Translation Quality Assessment has been the object of many studies. TQA as the compre- hensive treatment of translation evaluation, focuses on the relationship between the source text and target text and also emphasizes that translation is a linguistic operation. To accomplish this research, House‟s model of TQA was chosen as the framework for the investigation ...

full text

translation of collocations from english into persian, based on ghazalas theory

غزالا همایندها را به صورت ترکیبی از دو یا چند واژه که همواره در متون مختلف زبان ها همراه با هم می آیند تعریف می نماید. از دیدگاه او روند رو به رشد میل به ترجمه ی همایندها در مطالعات ترجمه، به دلیل اهمیت آنها در انسجام ساختار زبان است. این پایان نامه اساسا به ترجمه ی همایندها منحصر شده است. هدف آن بررسی کاربرد راهکارهای غزالا در مورد ترجمه ی همایندها از انگلیسی به فارسی است. هدف دیگر آن یافتن پر...

15 صفحه اول

Assessing the Quality of Persian Translation of the Book “Principles of Marketing” Based on the House’s (TQA) Model

Translation is evaluated in terms of its forms and functions inside the historically developed systems of the receiving culture and literature. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Persian translation of the14th edition of the original English book “Principles of Marketing” written by Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong based on House (TQA) model: overt and covert translation distinction. T...

full text

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

My Resources

Save resource for easier access later

Save to my library Already added to my library

{@ msg_add @}


Journal title

volume 1  issue 2

pages  11- 21

publication date 2013-09-01

By following a journal you will be notified via email when a new issue of this journal is published.

Hosted on Doprax cloud platform doprax.com

copyright © 2015-2023