Linguistic Analysis of the Main Traits of Stream of Consciousness in the Persian Translations of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Journal of Language and Translation

مقاله 9، دوره 9، شماره 2، تیر 2019، صفحه 125-140   

نوع مقاله: Research Articles

نویسندگان

Sadaf Salehi¹؛ Sholeh Kolahi^{* 2}

¹MA in Translation Studies, Department of English Language, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

²Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

This study investigated how the main linguistic traits of stream of consciousness novels are realized in Persian translations and also the frequency of translation strategies used by translators. Accordingly, a restricted set of linguistic parameters which Totò (2014) asserts can show the stream of thought of character(s), is chosen including punctuation, exclamatory utterances, interjections, and lexical repetitions. The corpus of the study is composed of 288 pages drawn from two famous stream of consciousness novels and their corresponding Persian translations: Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and its translations by Darioush (1993),Keyhan (2008) and Taheri (2009) and Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and its translations by Darioush (1991 ), Badiee (2001), and Alijanpour (2015). Also, to classify the translational choices regarding each linguistic element, Delabastita (1993)’s classification of translational strategies was used. The final results indicated that despite certain losses of linguistic features caused by omissions or other linguistic choices (such as using non-identical translations in the case of lexical-repetition translation), all five translators have successfully conveyed at least more than half of the mentioned features in their translations.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Linguistic analysis؛ Modernist literature؛ Stream of consciousness؛ style

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