The Transformations of domain of discourse in conceptual translation of Rubāiyāt of Khayyām Nīshāpūrī by Mohammad Abdullah Nur-al-din

Abstract

Domain of discourse refers to a set of norms, knowledge, customs, concepts, and ideologies accepted by the poet or writer that appear in his works. In translating the literary work, the study of the quality of representation domain of discourse in target language, in addition to crossing the linguistic and literary boundaries, emphasizes the importance of how it is represented, as the translator's approach to the discourse elements of the source text and how it is translated into the target language requires careful attention. Khayyam Nīshāpūrī 's quatrains (526-439 AH), an Iranian well-known Persian poet, has long been the focus of translators' attention as one of the most valuable literary works. Poet and contemporary critic of the Emirate (1976), Mohammed Abdullah Nur-al-din is also a translator who has translated these quatrain into Arabic by converting format of quatrain into new poetry and incorporating new ideologies and evolving some of the poetic elements of poetry to incorporate the essence of own thoughts according to the needs and desires of the age. The present investigation seeks to study the apparent changes in the Arabic translation of Nur al-Din by studying the elements of discourse in Khayyam's quatrains using a descriptive-analytical method and from the perspective of discourse analysis, and has described and explains the method of translating these elements into the poetic elements of these quatrains. Studying the analysis of Nur al-Din's translation of Khayyam's quatrains shows that this translation as any other translation.

Keywords

• khayyām
• mohammad abdullah nur-al-din
• translation of poetry
• domain of discourse