A Pragmatic Analysis of the Construction of Discourse Based on the Implicit Translation of the Quranic Discourse Marker Wa in English and Persian Parallel Corpora
Abstract
The implicit rendering of the most frequent and complex Quranic discourse marker “Wa” is a critical and complicated approach deserving analysis from different perspectives. Applying two theoretical perspectives and Klaudi’s model in the analysis of implicitation, the present exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative study analyzed different manifestations of applying implicitation strategies in the rendering of the Quranic discourse marker Wa (‘and’) in English and Persian parallel corpora. The corpus consisted of 20% of the Quran and its English and Persian translations. The results revealed that the Persian translator appealed to the implicit rendering of this discourse marker in more than 1/3 of the cases (39%) and it was less than 1/3 in the English translation (19%). And the application of this discourse creation, enrichment, and monitoring procedure resulted in the exploration of a seven plane framework consisting of cultural, pragmatic, lexical, and syntactic strategies. These findings facilitate the researchers’ perception and recognition of translation universals.
Keywords:
Implicit translation, Parallel corpora, Quranic discourse marker waReferences
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