Abstract
The present study addresses the phenomenon of online non-professional translation of manga in the context of Iran from the perspective of agency. It focuses on the people involved in decision-making in non-professional translation production, the non-professional translators’ motivations for their free immaterial labor as well as the factors that can constrain or increase their willingness or ability to translate manga into Persian. These questions were answered based on the activities of AnimWorld, the largest Iranian community of non-professional translators. The results suggest that non-professional translations differ from professional translations in terms of decision-making processes, motivations of the individuals involved as well as the contexts where they practice.
Highlights
Unlike professional translation, which has traditionally been the focus of translation researchers working on the English-Persian language pair, nonprofessional translation has not yet been recognized as a distinctive phenomenon in the context of Iran
A review of the way Haddadian-Moghaddam (2014) investigates agency in professional translation in Iran can help to further clarify the concept. He proposes a three-tier model in which agency is broken down into the three components of decision, motivation and context
Decision, motivation and context were described as the three components of agency in professional translation in Iran and nonprofessional translation in some other countries under the broader concept of agency
Summary
Unlike professional translation, which has traditionally been the focus of translation researchers working on the English-Persian language pair, nonprofessional translation has not yet been recognized as a distinctive phenomenon in the context of Iran. These are dealt with in turn in an attempt to discover the people who decide what gets translated and the factors that motivate the translators to translate as well as the factors which constrain or increase their agency In his diachronic analysis of professional literary translation in Iran during a period starting from the late nineteenth century to modern-day Iran, he investigates decision-making at two levels: decisions made regarding what books/authors get translated as well as those concerned with stylistic preferences and translation strategies. As for context, or the contextual factors that are believed to limit or boost the agency of translators and publishers, Haddadian-Moghadam (2014) identifies two sublevels: textual and extratextual. In line with Haddadian-Moghadam (2014), the above issues are discussed under the three categories of ‘decision’, ‘motivation’ and ‘context’
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