Collocations and Lexical Ambiguities and Their Related Problems (Failures) in Farsi Equivalent Selection of Banking Texts by Application of Structural Semantics View

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1 English Language Department, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 English Language Department, Islamic Azad University, Damavand Branch, Damavand, Iran

3 English Language Department, Teaching and Translation, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran.

Abstract

This study with a descriptive-analytical method and based on library resources and also by drawing on structural semantics view, conducted to investigate the particular collocations and lexical ambiguities (polysemies) existing in documentary credit section of international banking (customs and practices) and their related problems in equivalent selection in Persian language through comprehensive study of five translated books. The results of the study indicate that the collocations in specific section of the selected banking texts have the peculiarities of being contextual (lexical and structural), simple, usual, nearby, highly frequent, pivot word, situational, semantic and syntagmatic and the translators had two approaches of selecting different or fix equivalent (s) while rendering them in to Persian language. It is also worthy to note that selection of fix equivalent could lead to the development of specific type of language dealing with documentary credit in Persian language. Another finding of investigation reveals the pivotal peculiarity of polysemies in the specific section of selected banking texts by indicating that the vast majority of them are as the result of proficient and novel use of a word (by allocation of new meaning and multi-signification) in banking industry. But these multi-significations do not result in lexical ambiguities as their implementations in special co-texts and collocations make them a unit with a clear, distinct and proficient meaning in selected banking texts.

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Journal of Foreign Language Research
Volume 13, Issue 2
July 2023
Pages 177-192

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