A Corpus-Based Study of Units of Translation in English-Persian Literary Translations

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4Considering this notion from a product-oriented point of view as "the TT unitthat can be mapped onto a ST unit" (Baker, 200! 2#$, the researcher%s main

concern is to investigate a hierarch& of units of trans'ation (Ts$ proposed b&

)ewmark (**! ##-#$ inc'uding word, phrase, c'ause, sentence, and paragraph in

the 'iterar& trans'ations+ t the pre'iminar& stage, two uestions were raised to

detect the most freuent T adopted b& the professiona' 'iterar& trans'ators, and to

e.p'ore the re'ationship between the Ts and the free-'itera' dichotom& in terms of

the occurrence of unit/rank shifts+ To this end, a corpus of three famous ng'ish

nove's (origina''& written in ng'ish b& the renowned authors$ and two best-se''ing

trans'ations of each (done b& professiona' trans'ators$ were chosen to be ana'&1ed+

Through a contrastive ana'&sis, two hundred and ten coup'ed pairs of ST-TT

segments were e.tracted from the first ten pages of each nove' and its two

trans'ations based on estab'ishing re'ations of euiva'ence between the ST-TT

segments and adopting sentence as the maor unit of ana'&sis+ The Ts adopted in

the ST-TT segments were then identified+ The obtained resu'ts of the T categories

demonstrated that the most freuent T adopted b& the professiona' 'iterar&

trans'ators was sentence+ The unit-shifts app'ied in the Ts were a'so signified+ The

statistica' ca'cu'ation of freuenc& of unit-shifts in each trans'ator%s Ts proved that

the more freuent is the occurrence of unit-shifts in the Ts of the trans'ator, the

more deviated is his trans'ation from the forma' correspondence, the more different

the si1e of his Ts is, and fina''& the freer his trans'ation wi'' be5

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A Corpus-Based Study of Units of Translation in English-Persian Literary Translations