translation assessment of legal discursive structures in jcpoa

This study intended to study the translation of legal discursive structures in the joint comprehensive plan of action (jcpoa) and their significance in the production, maintenance and change of particular relations of power. to do so, the researcher benefited from fairclough’s model. the results revealed that the persian translated text (sl) consisted of some not translated texts that is omission strategy. accordingly, this omission caused error in the translation. the error analysis results in discourse practice level revealed that the error rate was totally 11 percent in persian translation that is significant (p>0.05) for persian translation. on the other hand, the social practice level showed that the english terms and words were used in persian translation with no explanation. however, based on fairclough’s model of cda, there was significant difference between discourse knowledge produced by the persian versus english legal discursive structures of jcpoa. this variation was (6.00%) for english verbs (30.8% english versus 24.8% persian) and (1.6%) for english adjectives/ adverbs/ nouns (13.8% english versus 12.2% persian). in response to the questions of this study, it was revealed that: (1) there is significant difference between knowledge produced by english and persian legal discourse provided in original and official persian translation of jcpoa, based on fairclough cda model (including genre, discourse and style). (2) on the basis of the participants in published articles of new york times, tehran times and hamshahri online between 2015 and 2018, the persian translation of original jcpoa underestimated this agreement role in production, maintenance and change in relations of power in iran.