A case study on the translation of grammatical shift involving possessive adjectives from English into Persian

Abstract EN

The present study sets out to investigate the frequency of different kinds of linguistic translation shifts (i.e.

structural shifts, class shifts, unit shifts, and intra-system shifts) based on the work by Catford (1974) that occur in the process of translating different kinds of short stories from English into Farsi.

To achieve the purpose of this study, an English book with Persian translation is selected.

In this research the frequency of the English possessive adjectives shift into Persian is explored to find the similarities and differences between two languages in this regard.

It can be conclude that in translation of short stories concerning to the popularity of the translation of the book Animal Farm, it is recommended that in translation of short stories the Structural Shift (Reordering shift) is more used to reach the attractiveness of the target language and observing the accuracy and naturalness of the transmitting of the meaning.

Although other factors as writer’s ideology, writer’s attitude, the purpose of the original text and sociocultural factors are more effective in determining the style and the model of translation.