A Comparative Study of Persian Translations of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Cultural Gain and Loss in Focus

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research

دوره 12، شماره 44، تیر 2023، صفحه 11-26   

نوع مقاله: Research Papers

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/jfl.2023.699896

نویسندگان

Bahareh Khazaeenezhad^* ؛ Sara Taheri

Sheikhbahaee University

چکیده

Discrepant cultural systems of languages are more likely to reflect challenges for translators maintaining the cultural dynamics of translation. Such perspective is mostly highlighted in the translation of literary texts where the main parts of the equation are language and culture. The present study aims to investigate cultural, historical and religious loss or gain in the translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) along with the rendering procedures used by the translators. To this end, through a comparative analytical and descriptive method based on (Vinay & Darbelent Model, 1995), culture-specific items of three Persian translations of the Huckleberry Finn story were extracted and divided into three subcategories of cultural, historical, and religious; consequently, the procedures applied by the translators which led to the cultural loss or gain were analyzed. The findings demonstrated that the first translation by Mohebbi had the highest degree of loss (17.16%), and the third translation by Daryabandari had the highest degree of gain (41.58%). Also, the highest frequency of lost items belonged to the cultural type with %6/31 in the first translation by Mohebbi and %2/52 in the second translation by Pirnazar. The findings indicated that the policies and normative differences of societies in different periods had an undeniable impact on the transmission of concepts which reflects the degree of loss and gain in translation. The result of the present study could be thought-provoking for psychoanalytical studies on the translator’s decision-making.
    
    

کلیدواژه‌ها

Culture-specific items؛ Gain؛ Loss؛ Translation Procedures

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