A Study of Translation of Fillers and Catch Phrases in Two Persian Translations of The Catcher in the Rye

Subject Areas : Journal of Language, Culture, and Translation

مرضیه  صفاری ¹ (کارشناس ارشد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان ( اصفهان))
محمود  هاشمیان ² (استادیار، دانشگاه شهرکرد)

Received: 2014-06-08 Accepted : 2014-06-08 Published : 2012-10-01

Keywords: Colloquial Language, translation, the Catcher in the Rye, Catch Phrases, Fillers, Repeated Expressions,

Abstract :

Considering the formality of language, colloquial language is one of the language levels that might be used by the author for an effective characterization and making the atmosphere of the story. This language has different features such as the use of short, ungrammatical sentences, repetition, hesitation, catch phrases, and fillers. These features should be reflected in translation thoroughly. In this study, we focused on the fillers and catch phrases as a subpart of colloquial expressions in particular. Fillers are the sounds, words, and phrases used to fill pauses in speaking. Catch phrases, on the other hand, are the expressions used repeatedly to represent a person’s ideas or points of view. These two subparts of colloquial language have the feature of “repetition” in common and this feature should be maintained in the process of translation. In this study, the frequency of the strategies used in the translation of the fillers and catch phrases,applied by the Persian translators of the Catcher in the Rye,(i.e., Karimi, 2002, and Najafi, 1998) were computed to see how the translators dealt with repeated expressions and how the style and content of TTwere affected. The analysis of the data indicated that repetition, as one of colloquial stylistic aspects of the text, is lost when the translator uses the strategies of “repetition” “cancelling” and “omission.”

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