A Pragmatic Analysis of the Quranic Discourse Marker Fa in Parallel Corpora:
A Study of Two Persian Translations
Abstract
The current study researched two translations of the second most recurrent, creative, multifaceted, and ambiguous Qur’anic discourse marker fa into the Persian language based on pragmatic analysis and translation spotting. The corpus was made up of 6 randomly selected sections of the Quran. This parallel data analysis indicated that the rendering of this Quranic discourse marker was done dynamically and communicatively by resorting to different types of DMs in the process of the construction of discourse. This pragmatic and figurative discourse creation is substantiated by the invocation of various theoretical outlooks in discourse and pragmatics. Given that these dynamic and figurative perspectives utilized by translators are not applied by the authorities in areas such as translation education, curriculum development, quality assessment, and lexicography, the investigators, authorities, professors, and material developers are recommended to reconsider their approaches in these areas.
Keywords: Discourse markers, fa, The Quran, Translation
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