The Effect of Ideology on Translation: English Translation into Persian in Death of a Salesman Play by Arthur Miller

Abstract

The main aims of the study are to work out the framework of consciousness and unconsciousness aspects of ideology and their effects on translation. For applying the aforementioned items, the researchers put Death of a Salesman (1949) play by Arthur Miller and its translation by Ali Asqar Bahram Beygi (1984) under scrutiny. Furthermore, the present paper makes an effort to analyze sensory experience, practical, reflective and reflexive aspects at the consciousness level of ideology. This study is a corpus-based, comparative, descriptive and non-judgmental analysis of the English-Persian parallel corpus. The obtained result proved the fact that awareness rising in these two major aspects of ideology for the analysis of the source text (ST) and the target text (TT) help translators to choose the closest equivalence in the social and situational context of the ST and the TT. Moreover, statistical results indicate that the most frequent aspect of ideology is at the consciousness level with 81%.