27Feb 2017

THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSLATORS’ STYLES IN TRANSLATION OF THE SALINGER’S “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” IN IRAN.

  • Assistant Professor of Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch.
  • Master of Arts student, English Translation Studies Department Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch.
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The aim of the present article is indicating to what extent the Iranian translators of J. D. Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ could preserve the style of the author and also to find out whether the style of the translators of Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ literary work had any effect in their translation. Since the researchers could not find any established model in translation or translator style, they went through a fundamental research and designed a first-hand framework to practice. The stylistic features of the source book were explored from the most famous and reliable critics in the authentic English sources and formed the corpus of this study along with their corresponding translations by Ahmad Karimi and Mohammad Najafi. The researchers conducted a careful comparative content analysis of both the source text and target texts exploiting Leech and Short's checklist of style markers and then through careful analysis of the findings, they found that Najafi has preserved 75.61% of the stylistic features of the ST while Karimi has preserved 43.09% of the stylistic features of the ST. the researchers applying binominal tests and chi square measurements, could not find any significant difference between the style of the translators when translating the context and cohesion features of the source text, but a significant difference in translating the lexical categories, grammatical categories and figures of speech. Considering the style in general, they applied type/token ratio. The result indicated a significant difference in preserving the author's style and Najafi could do a better job in this regard.

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[Forouzan Dehbashi Sharif and Azam Zahedi-Anbardan. (2017); THE EFFECT OF THE TRANSLATORS’ STYLES IN TRANSLATION OF THE SALINGER’S “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” IN IRAN. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 1683-1699] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

AZAM ZAHEDI-ANBARDAN
ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CENTRAL TEHRAN BRANCH

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3332      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3332

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