Idioms in “The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi” Through the Prism of Translators and Their Translation Strategies in Macedonian
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the translation strategies and translation equivalents of the idioms in the novel "The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi" by Elif Shafak, initially written in English and then translated into many languages, including Macedonian.Descriptive and qualitative research was conducted on the excerpted corpus of examples containing idioms and their equivalent translations.According to Baker's classification (2018), the paper discusses four translation strategies.Based on the analysis, we can conclude that the majority of the idioms have been translated with idioms with similar meaning and form, followed by translation of idioms with similar meaning but dissimilar form, then translation by paraphrase, and translation by omission.Additionally, we conclude that the translator's task, besides being a linguistic one, requires being a cultural mediator, building a bridge between two different languages and two dissimilar cultures.
Authors: Katerina Vidova, Svetlana Trajkovska
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7128782897