Analysis of the Translation of Marked and Unmarked Syntactic Structures in Mousavi Garmaroodi's Translation of Jihad's Sermon based on Lambrekt's Theory

Abstract

The marked information structure is one of the topics addressed by functional linguists which has also attracted the attention of translation theorists. Among the marked syntactic structures are topicalization and focalization, in which the topic and focus are removed from their original position in the sentence and placed in another position, for example, at the beginning of the sentence. Considering that in terms of information structure, shifting in sentence elements and marking creates more semantic load; understanding this issue is especially important in translating religious texts and requires more accuracy of the translator and knowledge and observance of the structure of the two languages of destination and origin. Because two propositions may have the same meaning in appearance but have different meanings in terms of communication and verbal. The present study, based on the method of content analysis and with a comparative approach, and relying on Lambreckt's theory, has examined and analyzed Garmaroodi's translation of Jihad's sermon in terms of translation of marked structures. The results show that the translator has not been very successful in translating these structures in general and has translated most of these structures into Persian as unmarkers. Of course, this has not harmed the fluency of his translation, but undoubtedly, has damaged the precise transmission of some of the communicative meanings of the text, from the point of view of information structure due to the change of structures from marking to unmarking.

Keywords

• nahj al-balaghah
• mousavi garmaroodi`s translation
• information structure
• topicalization
• focalization