2025/05/10 by Alinouri, Leila, Badpa, Hamed
Arts and Humanities · #Translation Studies and Practices #Comparative and World Literature #Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
paper · doi:10.57647/jals.2025.0501.07
So far, only a few studies have examined the relationship between globalization and translation practice. This study examines how globalization influences translation practices, focusing on the degree of foreignization and domestication. Robertson (2003) enumerates three waves of globalization and elaborates on them separately. The focus of the study was on the third and second waves of globalization based on Robertson (2003), starting from the late of the 19th century to the early 1980s, and from the late 1980s onwards respectively (between 1333 and 1382 S.H.). The corpora of the study consisted of ten English novels and their Persian translations by two Persian translators, Ibrahim Younesi and Najaf Daryabandari. The theoretical framework of the study was according to the approach of domestication and foreignization by Venuti (1995). It was assumed that the translations practiced during the third wave of globalization are more foreignized compared to those of the second wave. The data in the study consisted of foreignized and domesticated items in the corpora. The results indicated that foreignization has been introduced as the most pervasive translation strategy applied all over the corpora implying that globalization has much to do with foreignization strategy in translation.