idioms

ضرب المثل ها ،ارزنده ترین میراث فرهنگی هرملتی است که درآنها ادبیات ،زبان ،افکار،احساسات،عقاید ،ارزشهای اجتماعی واخلاقی آن ملت منعکس میشود .ضرب المثل ها علاوه برثبت وقایع تاریخی ،حکایات وافسانه ها،ضبط لغات واصطلاحات زبان وحفظ معانی اصلی آنها رابرعهده دارند.ازاین روپژوهشگران مسلمان در طول تاریخ سخت به تدوین مجموعه های امثال همت گماشتندوگنجینه ها وفرهنگهای بی مانندی از خود به یادگار نهادندکه متاسفانه برخی از آنها ازمیان رفته ویا درگذر زمان به بوته فراموشی سپرده شده است.نظربه این که تاکنون کسی فهرست جامعی از مثلنامه ها تدارک ندیده بود ،نگارنده به جستجوی این گنجینه های بی نظیر پرداخته و مجموعه ای بالغ بر200 اثرفراهم آورده است.به رغم آنکه تلاش فراوانی برای تکمیل آن صورت گرفته ،اما هنوز نمی توان ادعا کردکه به راستی به حد کمال رسیده است. زیرادستیابی به تمامی آثاری که تاکنون در زمینه ضرب المثل ها تدوین شده بسی مشکل است وچه بسا درآینده ازلابلای کتاب های منتشر شده ، مثلنامه هایی نا شناخته سربرکشند.درهرحال نگارنده امیدوار است آنچه دراین مقاله ارائه شده برای دانش پژوهان سودمند باشد.

The significance of idioms and idiomatic expressions in English can be understood from their appearance in all types of discourse ranging from every day conversations to scientific texts. So, the present study deals with the translation of idioms and idiomatic expressions from English into Persian focusing on the procedures involved. Baker's model (1992) which groups possible procedures into four strategies was chosen as the theoretical framework of this research. This study is an attempt to investigate strategies used in translating and also to find out which strategy is mostly used. To do so, a total number of 90 idioms and idiomatic expressions were extracted from three English novels. This study was carried out through a comparative study of idioms and idiomatic expressions from English into Persian. The findings of the research indicated that four strategies were used in translating idioms and idiomatic expressions and their frequency of being used is different and also it was revealed that most of the data were translated by paraphrase.

The present study aimed at investigating the translation strategies the Persian translator adopted for idioms from English into Persian. To do so, qualitative descriptive research, with special attention to idiom translation and to the way such problematic items were translated from English into Persian, was applied. Then, a comparison was made between idioms, which were extracted from Collins’s (2008) The Hunger Games, and their translation made by Akhtar (n.d.) according to Baker’s (1992) taxonomy of translation strategies, namely using an idiom of similar meaning and form, using an idiom of similar meaning but dissimilar form, translation by paraphrase, and translation by omission. Moreover, the chi-square test (X²) was used to see whether there is a significant relationship between the type of translation strategies and the number of them used by the Persian translator. The results revealed that Akhtar employed all four of Baker’s strategies to overcome idioms, of which the last two strategies were the most/least used strategies by him respectively. In addition, he preferred to apply the TT-oriented strategies rather than the ST-oriented ones. Misusing the TT-oriented strategies, in this case translation by paraphrase, did not allow him to create a good sense of some idioms in the TT and communicate effectively with the target audience. Thus, the translations he produced were not mainly acceptable and the target readers did not enjoy them to a great extent. The findings of the current study should be beneficial to translation students, newly researchers, and translation teachers. This study also suggested some pedagogical implications that could be helpful for those who benefit from the results of the study.