Anis Kalantari & Dr. Nahid Mohammadi
Alzahra University, Iran
Literary translations undertake structural limitations in Target Language (TL). Literary texts are value-laden and heavily loaded with devices. This may lead to untranslatability of some devices due to the structure of Source Language (SL). The present study is going to touch upon the degree of translatability of the two major tropes (metaphor and Irony) in two Persian translations of the Renaissance tragedy, King Lear. The corpus of this study will shed light on the translatability of these major tropes alongside with the question how the translators have treated the literary devices in this play. It is an attempt to discuss the reflection of ideas by two well-known translators; first, Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (also known as Behazin); second, Alaeddin Pazargadi. Tropes, the figures of thought, function semantically and create changes in the meaning of the text. In this respect, the present paper will technically examine the translatability or untranslatability of tropes in TL. Then, we will manage to give the definition of the categorization of the tropes that have been already underscored by the authors. Therefore, we come to analyze the translatability of literary construction in TL. It will be determined that the translators have utilized a particular strategy (as expansion, omission, or paraphrase). Finally, it can be concluded that which translator has transferred the whole message while resorting the literary devices in TL.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
