Tracing the Reflection of Differences in Belief in Translation

This paper is to identify translators’ feeding-in of their own worldviews which can be also indicative of the cultural diversities between the source text producer and the translator. Likewise, it can reveal the dissimilarities in terms of the cultural views between the various translators of the same text. The framework introduced by Norman Fariclough which furnishes an accommodating set of analytical questions for the analogy is benefited in this study. Data was collected by sending a request for translating an English passage on the subject of feminism to almost twenty-five adult Iranian men almost half of whom have been living in the West for over two years. The participants are all Persian native speakers who are proficient in English as a foreign language. The results demonstrate that TS included discourse structures that revealed contrasting cultural views of men residents in Iran versus those Iranian having been living in the West.  

Keywords:

English-Persian Translation , Ideology , culture , Critical Discourse Study