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 different writing systems of English and Persian makes translation of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations challenging. This study aimed at finding which strategies were applied most frequently in translating acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations from English to Persian especially in journalistic texts. The study was done based n Descriptive Translation Study of Toury and strategies pr...

The present study aimed to examine the translatorchr('39')s solutions to the translation of conversational implicatures from English into Persian. To do so, 120 conversational implicatures were extracted from the novel the Lord of the Rings (Tolkien, 1954) and classified based on Gricechr('39')s (1975) categorization of Maxims, including quality, quantity, relevance, and manner. Mur Duenaschr('...

The present study sought to investigate the translation strategies in an American sitcom in Iranian EFLclasses with emphasis on politeness. The participants were 50 male and female Iranian undergraduateB.A. and M.A. students majoring in English Translation, and English language teaching at the IslamicAzad University, North Tehran. The participants were administered three tests. A multiple choic...

This research sought to identify the translation strategies adopted by the translator in Persian translation of 'whatever after, Fairest of all' written by 'Sarah Mlynowski' based on Klingberg's model (1986). To achieve the objectives of the study, a qualitative content analysis design was selected for it. The corpus of the study consisted of 60 pages of the novel 'whatever after, Fairest of al...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

1-introduction languages employ different strategies to represent motion as one of the basic human cognitive abilities. in talmy's typological dichotomy (1991; 2000b) languages are of two types according to the way they represent path either in verb roots or in satellites, accordingly languages are either verb framed or satellite framed. slobin (1991;1996 a,b.1997;2000) performed corpus based a...

The existence of cultural gaps causes problems in translation process and harms the aesthetic aspects of texts. In this paper, it was tried to recognize the factors which cause inconsistency between the style of original lyrics and its translations and also find out which translation strategies increase the rate of this distortion. The framework of the study was translation quality assessment b...

  Culture is an extremely complex concept. Translating cultural elements is a demanding task due to the fact that these elements comprise specific meanings and implications belonging exclusively to the lan-guage and culture from which they have emerged. Regarding this point, the present article investigated the strategies employed for translating culture-specific items (CSIs) in an English nov...