Translation Quality Assessment of Literary Text from Englishinto Persian based on Nord Textual Analysis Model (1918)

In Translation Quality Assessment the type of text is an important factor that should be considered. Manyresearchers, investigated literary texts, such as poetry, drama, and novel as their object of study becauseliterary texts are worthy of more study compared with non-literary texts from the perspectives of linguistics,aesthetics, culture, and philosophy. The main purpose of the present study was the assessment of the Persiantranslation of "Pride and Prejudice" book which was translated by Reza Rezaei based on Kleinberg's model.To this aim, a corpus-based comparative analysis approach was used in which the researcher analyzed thesource and target texts for the recurring patterns and themes. The findings indicated the most frequenttranslation strategy were Explanatory translation (paraphrase), Substitution (Substitution of an equivalent,Substitution of a rough equivalent), Specification (Addition), Direct Translation (Calque, ShiftedTranslation), Generalization, and Deletion respectively. This means that the translators seem to try topreserve the cultural ‘tone’ of the source in such texts. However, the translations differ from one another interms of the second most common strategy. The most important implication of the present study is how toanalyze source text and target text of a translated context to investigate the quality of the translation fromEnglish into Persian. Knowing the different kinds of theories is as essential as practice in TranslationStudies.

Translation Quality Assessment of Literary Text from Englishinto Persian based on Nord Textual Analysis Model (1918) Keywords:

Translation , Translation Quality Assessment , Literary Translation