Linguistic Comparative Approach in Translation Studies of Second Half of Twentieth Century

Subject Areas : شعر

Anahita Amir Shojaei ¹ , Marziyeh Khalili Zadeh Ganjalikhani ²

1 - Instructor, Faculty Member, Higher Educational Complex, Bam
2 - Instructor, Faculty Member, Higher Educational Complex, Bam

Received: 2018-12-31 Accepted : 2018-12-31 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: Balance, معنی, ترجمه, تعادل, Meaning, translation, زبان‌شناسی ساختاری, Structure linguistics,

Abstract :

Comparative linguistics is one of the main branches in historical linguistics which studies languages' comparison to explore and discover similarities and relations during the history. In twentieth century, translation theories were not disadvantaged of modern culture as well as linguistics. Thus this article studies translation theories and the effect of linguistics on translation especially in late nineteenth century and early twentieth systematically; because in the mentioned duration, translation theories were much affected by linguistics and linguists. Key concepts of this article are meaning, balance and transfer in translation and the preference of structured and creative linguistic. The article also shows that how the translation approach moves toward being scientific by some linguists' afford such as Nida – who derived his theory from Chomsky. Finally the paper remarks the merging of linguistics with translation theories and translation studies in the modern world.

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