The application of Garcés’s model in the analysis of Fouladvand’s translation of Surah An’am (case study: semantic-lexical level)

Garcés’s model in the analysis of interlingual translation includes four levels: semantic-lexical, morphological-syntactic, discourse-functional, and stylistic-practical. Each of the four mentioned levels includes subcategories that provide the possibility of extensive and comprehensive analysis in interlingual translation with a combined approach. In this research, the application of the semantic-lexical level of Garcés’s model is considered, and Fouladvand’s translation of Surah An’am is selected as a research case. The research method is descriptive-analytical. The findings of the research show that Fouladvand has used strategies such as definition or explanation, cultural or functional equivalence, syntactic expansion, syntactic reduction, and translation of a specific word into a general word and a general word into a specific word in the translation of Surah An’am. The semantic-lexical level of Garcés’s model has two other subcategories: ambiguity and adaptation; Fouladvand’s translation of Surah An’am, for example, faces the challenge of creating ambiguity due to the multiple meanings of the words of the Holy Quran in the context of the verses. Adaptation means removing the cultural reference of the source language in the target language and replacing it with an unrelated reference, adaptation is an irrational strategy in interlingual translation; This strategy does not exist in Foladvand’s translation of Surah An’am.