Translating proverbs is sometimes a challenging task. The present paper aims at investigating the most productive strategies of rendering Persian proverbs into English. Therefore, as the first step, a compilation of classical Persian proverbs were selected from Anvari’s (2004) Sokhan Dictionary of Proverbs and their literal-semantic translations were provided. The proverbs’ counterparts in English were also extracted from monolingual dictionaries including The concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs and A dictionary of American proverbs. A mixed procedure was recognized to be more fruitful than the isolated use of each procedure proposed by Beekman and Callow (1974). Replacing the source-text proverb with its equivalent target-language proverb and referring to its literal translation and meaning in a footnote can be a highly productive procedure. This procedure would provide the target-language readership with enough information and never hinders the fluency of reading the source-text. The results also confirmed the undeniable importance of context while rendering proverbs and, finally, the new procedure called “substitution” was proposed by the researcher.
Afrouz, M. (2022). Translation of Proverbs in Classical-Persian Literature: Enhancing Beekman and Callow’s Model via Sokhan Dictionary of Proverbs. Classical Persian Literature, 13(1), -. doi: 10.30465/cpl.2022.6920
MLA
Mahmoud Afrouz. "Translation of Proverbs in Classical-Persian Literature: Enhancing Beekman and Callow’s Model via Sokhan Dictionary of Proverbs", Classical Persian Literature, 13, 1, 2022, -. doi: 10.30465/cpl.2022.6920
HARVARD
Afrouz, M. (2022). 'Translation of Proverbs in Classical-Persian Literature: Enhancing Beekman and Callow’s Model via Sokhan Dictionary of Proverbs', Classical Persian Literature, 13(1), pp. -. doi: 10.30465/cpl.2022.6920
VANCOUVER
Afrouz, M. Translation of Proverbs in Classical-Persian Literature: Enhancing Beekman and Callow’s Model via Sokhan Dictionary of Proverbs. Classical Persian Literature, 2022; 13(1): -. doi: 10.30465/cpl.2022.6920
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