An Investigation on Sayyed Hasan Khadiv Jam’s Translation of the “With Abu Al-A’la in Prison” Based on the Sufficiency and Acceptability of the Translation of Literary Texts

Abstract

Investigation of the translator’s inclination towards the norms of the source text or the norms of the target text is one of the most important issues in translation studies. The translation in the first state is called sufficient translation and, in another case, is called accepted translation. Literary text translator sometimes acts upon sufficiency and sometimes acts upon acceptability. In this study, we intend to discuss the sufficiency and acceptability in the translation of the late Dr. Hasan Khadiv Jam in the chapters "Don’t Cudgel the Dead” and "Caught in Three Prisons” from Taha Hussein's book” With Abu Al-A’la in Prison." This study is descriptive-analytical, and it concludes that Khadiv Jam’s translation is based on the sum of sufficiency and acceptability and is largely influenced by the principle of acceptability in translation.

Keywords

• sufficiency
• acceptability
• linguistic balance
• semantic and communicative translation