CENSORSHIP IN TRANSLATION IN IRAN (CASE STUDY: “VERONICA DECIDES TO DIE” BY PAULO COELHO)
Abstract
The examination tried to find the standards of translating taboo words and ideas in Iran using Toury's (1995) framework for classification of norms. The corpus of the investigation made out of Coelho's novel and its Persian translation which was arranged and analyzed manually to find the norms and coincidently a back translation was made by four Iranian translators to compare with main translation of the novel from Portuguese to English to see whether those censorship are observed or not . During both the determination of novel for translation and the way toward translating by translator standards were at work. It was likewise found that the translators of the novel consented to the target language norms, i.e. the translators had tried to deliver adequate translation. With respect to norms, the examination recommended that the translation strategy depended on fame of the creator that could ensure the marketability of translation. The frequency of the norms recommended that euphemism with 52.38% percent was the dominant norm in translating forbidden words and taboos. The frequency of norms in the novel, and in addition its frequency in the whole corpus was estimated and exhibited in tables and talked about. At last, it was discovered that the dominant ideology in Iran was a deciding factor during the time spending basic leadership by the translators.
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