The Analysis of Applying Roman Jakobson Theory to Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid English Translation of Sepehri’s Eight Books
Subject Areas : All areas of language and translationJafar Firouzi 1 * , Seyyed Masoud Eshaghzade 2
1 - Department of English, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran
2 - Department of English, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran
Keywords: Translation strategies, Intersemiotic translation, Interlingual translation, Intralingual translation, Jakobson’s model,
Abstract :
This study aimed to analyze the English translation of Sepehri’s Eight Books by Bahiyeh AfnanShahid (2013) based on Jakobson’s (2013) model. To achieve the stated objectives of the presentstudy, a corpus-based and comparative design was utilized. The corpus of this study consisted of atotal of 100 hemistiches which were randomly selected from the following poems: The Passenger,The Death of Color, The Life of Dreams, Downpour of Sunshine, East of Sorrow, The Wayfarer, andThe Green Space. To collect the data, first, the researchers found the available version of Sepehri’sEight Books along with its English translation by Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid (2013). Then, they read themthoroughly to get familiar with their content, sense, themes and structures. Next, the translation strategies used in translating the poems were identified based on Jakobson’s (2013) model. To analyze thecollected data qualitatively, the content of the corpus was qualitatively analyzed by the raters to identifythe translation strategies used to translate the hemistiches into English. The quantitative data analysisincluded calculating the frequencies and percentages of the identified translation types and translationstrategies to recognize the most and the least frequent translation types and strategies used in translations;it was finally shown that literal translation, form transposition, content transposition, paraphrase,omission, addition, and idiomatic translation strategies were used in the Persian to English translationof Eight Books of Sepehri. Besides, the most frequent translation type used in the Persian to Englishtranslation of Eight Books of Sepehri was interlingual translation. And the least translation types usedin the Persian to English translation of Eight Books of Sepehri were intralingual translation andinter-semiotic translation.
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