Abstract

This dissertation tried to investigate the process of literary translation, specifically literary tropes. How culture is controlling this process and how the equivalents are chosen were the main problems to be focused on. The translation of Molavi’s Mathnawi by Reynolds, A. Nicholson was the corpus of study. Metaphor as it is defined by modern linguistics was the main concern of the research.

Through a thorough review of literature several frameworks were chosen. Newmark’s model (1988b) and Harvey’s framework (2000) were the ones to be considered for the study of translation of Metaphor and Culture-based Concepts respectively.   


Metaphors found in Book 1 of Molavi’s work were classified according to the framework and the findings were shown by the bar-graphs. Then Nicholson’s translation techniques were observed with care.  

A Metaphorical Signification and a Metaphor-nature-based model were then introduced by the study. The model is applicable not only to the corpus under study, but to almost every literal and cultural interlanguage translation. Harvey’s framework was applied to the Culture-based Concepts and once more the translator’s techniques were investigated. 


 The ultimate outcome was a framework proposed by the research, suggesting techniques for translation of different Metaphorical expressions according to the nature of metaphors, the concept which was aroused by the research earlier.