The present study aimed at investigating the impact of a genre-specific strategy-based instructional inter- vention on translation quality, dominant translation and writing activities in the persuasive essays of a group of EFL learners within the perspective of activity theory. The main purpose of the study was to see, taking translation as a sort of writing in its own right, whether the ...

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 t...

this study aims at investigating voices in the persian translation of katherine mansfield's the garden party. in so doing, after a stylistic analysis of the voices in the original is done, it is argued by the authors that the polyphonous nature of the story is to a great extent due to the deployment of various sociolects in the story as well as the choice of free indirect discourse (fid) as the...

The increasing impact of audiovisual media and film industry in particular has led researchers to think of audiovisual translation strategies. Huge investments in film industry need global markets. Hence, there is a need for qualified translations and systematic studies dedicated to this area are in great demand. This study aims to investigate translation strategies adopted in the translation o...

the seventh art has stabilized its proper place in the social and cultural level in different societies of the world. although, in this art, the picture, sound, music and movement are very important but the role of speech in the transmission of sense is undeniable. development and presentation of this art to the audience depends greatly on translation of the speech from the original language to...

this study is a discussion on translation of f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby from english into persian by karim emami based on newmarks’ (1988) classification of cultural elements. the discussion revolves around the problems of translation focusing on some of the cultural and linguistic issues encountered in the original and how they are resolved in the strategies used in the transl...

The first gas phase structure of a silanetriol, tert-butylsilane-triol [(t)BuSi(OH)(3)], determined by gas electron diffraction (GED), is reported. Quantum chemical calculations have been performed to elucidate potential intermolecular interactions between silanetriol molecules in the gas phase. The results are set into contrast to solid state structures of (t)BuSi(OH)(3) and related compounds.