this study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the english translations of persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) are the english versions of persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

The present study sought to investigate the extent to which Persian idiomatic expressions would influence the western translators' strategies in providing the ultimate product in English, and it also attempted to uncover the underlying assumptions in target text, then to suggest some weighty strategies to overcome difficulties with translation. For this purpose, the data was analyzed within the...

There are a lot of learners all around the world, who are studying in the field of English, but not all of them are proficient in any field of English such as (literature-teaching-translation), and especially in the field of translation which requires a considerable knowledge of two languages such as English and Persian. The present article intended to consider the contrastive of English and Pe...

The present study investigates the challenges translators may face when translating pun expressions in some selections found Arabic poetry into English. examines strategies employed to translate puns, choice of pun’s sense, and perseverance aesthetic function puns analyses translation a sample ten Arabic-English by twenty-five MA students grounded on Delabastita’s (1993) model, graded salience ...

This research aimed at evaluating the types and frequency of category shifts in the Persian translations of English poems based on Catford’s model of shifts. To this end, three English romantic poems of A Histo- ry of English Literature, namely, Blake’s ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’, and Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ along with their Persian t...

this paper aimed to investigate the differences between english and persian religious elements which may be problematic in translating from english into persian. the study aimed also to investigate the way cultural elements in general and religious ones in particular were dealt with in the selected corpora and to check whether the procedures proposed by newmark, were sufficient and adequate for...

Abstract The aim of this study was to find the appropriate type of translation of English brand names Iranian consumers prefer, i.e. phonetic, semantic and phonosemantic types of translation. Also, it was aimed at examining the type of font size Iranian consumers tends to see on packages of English products. To this end, the distinction between male and female participants as well as the partic...