Nahjolbalagheh Research

Nahjolbalagheh Research

Comparative Study of Lexical Gaps in Persian and English Translations of Malik Ashtar's treaty based on Newmark's model; Safarzadeh's Translation

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohamad Hassan Taqiyeh 1
Elham khojaste 2
faranak naji 3
1 The Arabic department "Payam noor" University of Iran
2 Master of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran
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Abstract
One of the most critical challenges in translating religious and literary texts is filling the lexical gaps in the target language. The Nahj al-Balaghah of Hazrat Ali (AS) is a clear example of this type of text. Undoubtedly, the issue of lexical gaps arose after cultural elements, and they are necessary for each other. As a bilingual scientific study, this research deals with the weaknesses and strengths of Safarzadeh, the Persian and English translator of Malik Ashtar's treaty based on Newmark's theoretical model. Also, it seeks to reduce the weaknesses of translation and strengthen the translators of religious and literary texts to fill vocabulary gaps. Although the translation of the Nahj al-Balaghah into Persian has a long history, it seems that the simultaneous multilingual criticism of the translations of this valuable work has received less attention from translation critics. Therefore, this research with a descriptive-analytical method tries to show the difference in the translator's approach while translating two languages with different cultures. The results show that the most frequent technique of Persian translation is rewriting, with a frequency of 15%, and the least frequent is explanation (0.35%). Also, the most frequent technique of translation into English is rewriting (32.44%), and the least frequent is explanation (0.38%).
Keywords
Nahj al-Balaghah
Persian translation
English translation
Malik Ashtar's treaty
lexical gap
Newmark's translation strategies
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