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Mehrpooya A. Signs and the Flaw of Signlessness: Inequivalence and Bewilderness of Names and Signs in Two Persian Translations of Oscar Wilde’s Play “Salomé”. LRR 2025; 16 (2) :6-0
URL: http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-61783-en.html
URL: http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-61783-en.html
Assistant Professor at Department of Foreign Languages, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran , abbas.mehrpooya@gmail.com
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This essay is a critical study to explore the what- and how-patterns of semiotic manipulations in the two Persian translations of Oscar Wilde’s playscript “Salomé”, made by Abdollah Kowsari (2006) and Abolhassan Tahami (2019). In this pursuit, the main question addressed in this research has been to study the what and how of semiotic manipulations in the two Persian translations mentioned with a special view to the identification of certain special names and key words. As such, the methodology employed in this research is based on a critical reading of the two translations, itself on the basis of and in comparison with the English-version text of “Salomé” playscript. On this basis, the first and most overt research outcome of the present research had highlighted, on the evidence of the examples drawn from the two translations under study, both translators’ approach to domesticizing and ostracizing the special names and key symbols and lexical signs and consequently de-foreignization of the original text in translation. Another significant research finding of the study underlines the point that the manipulations done in the structure of the semiology of words and lexicology of special names in this dramatico-literary work, besides transforming the key dramatico-textual themes, have ended in the breakage among the text of the Persian translation and the work’s culturallingual context.
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