Assertiveness and Prediction of Marked Structures in the Translations of Undergraduate English Students مقاله

نویسنده: Mashhady، Habibollah ؛ Fatollahi، Moslem ؛

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies Autumn 2015, Volume 2 - Number 4 ISC (‎10 صفحه - از 1 تا 10 )

کلیدواژه ها: Lexical Translation assertiveness marked structures grammatical Marked Markedness

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Markedness in linguistics is the state of being distinct, peculiar or complicated in comparison to a more usual or common form. Markedness has been widely studied in the literature. However, almost no study has ever explored the relationship between translators’ assertiveness and their preference of marked structures in translation. This article aims to investigate the relationship between the assertiveness level of Iranian undergraduate English students and their preference for using lexical and grammatical marked structures in their Persian translations. To this end, 60 undergraduate English students completed the Assertiveness Scale developed by Alberti & Emmons (1995), and rendered ten short statements taken from the story “Child by Tiger” into Persian. The translation test was scored by two raters, based on the use of marked lexical (e.g. wrong collocations, plurals) and grammatical (e.g. reduced clauses( structures in the students’ translation, and a high inter-rater reliability was achieved. Results revealed a significant positive relationship between the test-takers’ assertiveness and their preference to render English marked structures into Persian marked structures. The findings have implications for translation instructors.

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"This article aims to investigate the relationship between the assertiveness level of Iranian undergraduate English students and their preference for using lexical and grammatical marked structures in their Persian translations. To this end, 60 undergraduate English students completed the Assertiveness Scale developed by Alberti & Emmons (1995), and rendered ten short statements taken from the story "Child by Tiger" into Persian. The correlation results revealed a statistically significant relationship between assertiveness and writing ability of the test-takers (see also Fahim & Kharrazi, 2012; Ketabdar, Yazdani, & Yarahmadi, 2014; Mamat & Yusof, 2013). To this end, 60 undergraduate translation students at the University of Zabol (30 males and 30 females) completed the Assertiveness Scale developed by Alberti and Emmons (1995) and rendered ten short statements of the English story "Child by Tiger" into Persian. To investigate the first research hypothesis regarding the relationship between assertiveness and performance on markedness recreation in translation, a Pearson Correlation Coefficient was run. 01 level (2-tailed) As shown in Table 4, a significant positive relationship exists between the Self-perceived Assertiveness of the test-takers and their performance on recreating the markedness of speech in their translations (0. 5. Conclusion and Implications This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the undergraduate translation students’ self-perceived assertiveness and their performance on recreating the marked structures used in the speech of Dick, the main character of the story "Child by Tiger". Our findings revealed a significant positive relationship between the participants’ assertiveness and their success in recreating markedness of speech in translation."

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