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Taherpoor S, Samimi F. Translation Quality Assessment of Literary Text from English into Persian based on Nord Textual Analysis Model (1918). kurmanj 2025; 7 (1) :1-12
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Translation Quality Assessment of Literary Text from English into Persian based on Nord Textual Analysis Model (1918)
Shiva Taherpoor , Fazlolah Samimi *
Department of English Language Translation, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
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In Translation Quality Assessment the type of text is an important factor that should be considered. Many researchers, investigated literary texts, such as poetry, drama, and novel as their object of study because literary texts are worthy of more study compared with non-literary texts from the perspectives of linguistics, aesthetics, culture, and philosophy.  The main purpose of the present study was the assessment of the Persian translation of "Pride and Prejudice" book which was translated by Reza Rezaei based on Kleinberg's model. To this aim, a corpus-based comparative analysis approach was used in which the researcher analyzed the source and target texts for the recurring patterns and themes. The findings indicated the most frequent translation strategy were Explanatory translation (paraphrase), Substitution (Substitution of an equivalent, Substitution of a rough equivalent), Specification (Addition), Direct Translation (Calque, Shifted Translation), Generalization, and Deletion respectively. This means that the translators seem to try to preserve the cultural ‘tone’ of the source in such texts. However, the translations differ from one another in terms of the second most common strategy. The most important implication of the present study is how to analyze source text and target text of a translated context to investigate the quality of the translation from English into Persian.  Knowing the different kinds of theories is as essential as practice in Translation Studies.

Keywords: Translation, Translation Quality Assessment, Literary Translation
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Received: 2024/12/5 | Revised: 2025/03/7 | Accepted: 2025/03/18 | Published: 2025/03/25
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