A Study of Translation of Cultural Elements in Nader Ebrahimi’s Book With Panegyrist of War in the Territory of Name and Disgrace Based on the Quality Translation Theory of Juliane House

One of the most important challenges to the translation process is implementing the criteria for evaluating its quality to narrative scripts, especially in transferring cultural elements from one language to another. The translation quality assessment of Juliane House is a linguistic process consisting of three basic steps, implemented within the context of the text type, the quality of interpretations used and based on functional equivalence between the source text and the translated text. This research is an attempt to compare the above criteria by translating selected excerpts from book With Panegyrist of War in the Territory of Name and Disgraceby Nader Ebrahimi that includes his narrative from the Iraq-Iran war. The descriptive-analytical research seeks to achieve a proper equivalence between the source and the translated text in three steps: a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the text, its interpretation and translation. Finally, in the theory of Juliane House, the quality of translation is not merely a matter of linguistics, but of cultural practice, since the author expresses his literary experience in a particular cultural field and the text demands a particular audience who is familiar with the culture of the front line. As such, the translation of the elements of this narrative is based on overt translation in House theory. The translation method of many of the terms and expressions in this narrative is based on Housechr('39')s theory of descriptive method, while the translation method of most narratives is literal.