Application of cultural filter in translation of curse: Case study of English translation (the Children's waving carpet by Hoshang. Moradi Kermani)

Moeindarbari, Maryam; Kamyabi Gol, Atiyeh; Seifi, Sefullah

doi:10.30465/ls.2021.6693

Application of cultural filter in translation of curse: Case study of English translation (the Children's waving carpet by Hoshang. Moradi Kermani)

Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article

Authors

Maryam Moeindarbari ¹

Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol ²

Sefullah Seifi ³

¹ English Department, Farhangyan university of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

² Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³ English Department of Razavi University of Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/ls.2021.6693

Abstract

The present study aims at making a critical assessment of Chris Lear’s and Soheila Sahabi’s English translation (2000) of Houshang Moradi Kermani’s Carpet Weaving Factory Children (1980/2000). This article will specifically consider the translation of the terms "curse" as one of the examples of cultural-linguistic forms. To the task, Khanjan’s Critical Translation Analysis (CTA) Model (2012, 2013), which is primarily based on Halliday’s Systemic-Functional linguistics (1994, 2004) has been selected as the research analytical framework. This study aims to show how the use of cultural filtering by translators has been commensurate with the contextual characteristics of the destination system. After identifying these phrases and sentences, we examined the function of translators in translating this speech action. The calculation of the frequency and the percentage of the use of these quadruple strategies suggests that translators of the story have the most use of “Equivalent Finding", "transference," and elimination, respectively, in the conversion of curse. Moreover, the "Equivalence Making" strategy has not been implemented.

Keywords

Critical analysis of translation

cultural filter

translation of curse

children of waving carpet factory

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