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Translating English proverbs into Persian : A case of comparative linguistics

Translation of English proverbs into Persian language makes Iranian translators encounter at the Source Language (SL) comparing Target Language (TL) levels such as lexical, stylistic, cultural and rhetorical parameters. In this respect, the main concerns would be on the three corresponding SL/TL bases: form, content and context. This goes back to similar and different parameters of English and Persian languages regarding Contrastive Analysis studies in the 1940s. At the content and context levels, there may be several shared properties between SL and TL equivalents which are connotatively motivated while at the formal level the lexical differences can be problematic. This survey provides a model which facilitates the translation of English proverbs into Persian with the minimum loss in the connotative meaning of the SL proverbs. It also proposes a theoretical model concerned with weak, moderate and strong versions of conceptual translation equivalents. This model is applicable in the other domains of translation practices at linguistic and metalinguistic levels.