Paper Title :Translator as a Socio-Cultural Mediator: Semotic Approach

Author :Hamid Reza Shairi, Moluk Daneshmand

Article Citation :Hamid Reza Shairi ,Moluk Daneshmand , (2017 ) " Translator as a Socio-Cultural Mediator: Semotic Approach " , International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , pp. 53-58, Volume-3,Issue-11

Abstract : We can expect a broad definition of discourse. The last decades have seen a great increase in focusing on literary discourse and consequently its socio-cultural dimensions. Meanwhile, in translation studies field, very few studies (Troque, 2015) considered the translator as a socio-cultural mediator involved in translation procedure and the way he/she is affecting the aesthetic-affective charge of the literary discourse. So, this paper discussed the socio-cultural features as factors underlying almost all literary texts and explored their translation; both limitations and potentials and how these elements influence the reception of the readers, aesthetically and emotionally. To this end, some parts of a poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), cotemporary Iranian poet, along with its English and French translations were comparatively verified. The results were presented through tensive model (Fontanille & Zilberberg, 1998) a device used in post-Greimasian semiotics. The semiotic approach to socio-cultural features of literary discourse and translation delivers valuable results in terms of assessment of translation and translator training. Index Terms- Literary translation; socio-cultural features, affective load, aesthetics, translation assessment, Sohrab Sepehri.

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-3,Issue-11

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