Foreign Languages
Somayeh Zokhtareh
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The close relationship between spelling and writing has led us to study Mahvash Ghavimi’s works as a part of studies done at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, and we review and criticize two educational and academic works entitled "The French Spelling Guide" and "The French Writing ...
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The close relationship between spelling and writing has led us to study Mahvash Ghavimi’s works as a part of studies done at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, and we review and criticize two educational and academic works entitled "The French Spelling Guide" and "The French Writing Guidelines", published by the University Publication Center. The present article has tried to take a brief look at the emergence and evolution of spelling before paying attention to the role of dictation in learning French language spelling and its connection with writing skill.The study of the content and especially the exercises that the authors have included in these two books has allowed this research to reveal the approach of the authors of the books in language teaching by determining the type of exercises, and also there are some strategies suggested in order to correct, improve and update them. The main goal of the authors in these two books is to teach the basics of French spelling in a very prescriptive way in the first book, and in the second one, it refers to sentence construction and its constituent elements to be learned by bachelor students of French language and literature and French language translation.
Foreign Languages
Hassan Zokhtareh
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Studying some of Mahvash Ghavimi’s works in the academic and general area shows that she attaches significant importance to textual approaches. Contrary to many books that only explain the theories, Ghavimi in her three books, Sher No Dar Bouteh Naghd (Modern Poetry Criticism), Ava and Elgha (Sound ...
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Studying some of Mahvash Ghavimi’s works in the academic and general area shows that she attaches significant importance to textual approaches. Contrary to many books that only explain the theories, Ghavimi in her three books, Sher No Dar Bouteh Naghd (Modern Poetry Criticism), Ava and Elgha (Sound and Suggestion), and Gozari Bar Dastan Nevisi (A study on Writing a story), after introducing Russian Formalism and French Structuralism to readers, in order to prove their effectiveness in literary research, uses them in examining and analyzing different types of Persian literature texts. This study tries to explore the origins and consequences of this approach in addition to Ghavimi’s method of using a textual approaches in the analysis of Persian texts. Although Ghavimi acts correctly in her analysis of Persian poems and novels with the help of textual approaches, she sometimes ignores its fundamentals, such as avoid judging and evaluating, as well as avoiding nationalism in the study of literature. Her emotional bond to the contextual approach, both in theory and in practice, is so profound that she cannot measure it accurately.
Foreign Languages
Masoumeh Zavarian; Mahdi Mohammad Beighy
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Mahvash Ghavimi, a researcher, university professor, and one of the famous experts in French language and literature, whose main fame in translation is related to the works of Christian Bobin, has translated Le Malentendu and Les Justes by Albert Camus. Ashian Publishing published both of them ...
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Mahvash Ghavimi, a researcher, university professor, and one of the famous experts in French language and literature, whose main fame in translation is related to the works of Christian Bobin, has translated Le Malentendu and Les Justes by Albert Camus. Ashian Publishing published both of them in 2010 in a volume, then republished them in 2018. In the present article, we have a brief look at the paratextuality, approaches to translating the play and its problems, the background of the translation of these two works in Iran and reason for retranslation. We also examined these two plays from a textual perspective and tried to take an overview to a translation approach in these two works. The discussion of the performance, which is the fundamental element of any play, is detailed and does not fit into this paper and is left to the experts in this field. In the translation of these two works, the content of the original text has been translated and conveyed as far as it is intended, but regardless of its performance in terms of text, sometimes the haste and the translation of the word to the word are obvious.
Foreign Languages
Rohollah Ghasemi
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Christophe Balaÿ is one of the iranologists who has sacrificed their whole life to study Persian literature and the outcome is a book, entitled Genèse du roman persan modern, which has been translated to Persian by two Iranian university professors Mahvash Ghavimi and Nasrine-Dokht Khatat. ...
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Christophe Balaÿ is one of the iranologists who has sacrificed their whole life to study Persian literature and the outcome is a book, entitled Genèse du roman persan modern, which has been translated to Persian by two Iranian university professors Mahvash Ghavimi and Nasrine-Dokht Khatat. The analysis of this translation and the comparison with the original text written in French can depict us the translators’ positioning facing with different challenges in text. And such a study could be interesting and helpful not only for professional translators but for students who aim to have a take a more profound look on this translation. We used Vinaya and Darbelent’s method because it is one of the most used and useful methods in this domain. In this article, we try to demonstrate which strategies the translators use in order to convey the meanings and to respect the structures of the text. In fact, the principal question we tried to answer to is: why translator chooses some structures and refuses the others? Finally, it is concluded that the product-based translation of this book seeks to attract Persian speakers and make them comprehend the materials as efficiently as possible.
