مقایسه متون ترجمه شده و متو ن اصلی: آزمون فرضیه ساده سازی در ترجمه متون فنی همسان
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simplification universal as a universal feature of translation means translated texts tend to use simpler language than original texts in the same language and it can be critically investigated through common concepts: type/token ratio, lexical density, and mean sentence length. although steps have been taken to test this hypothesis in various text types in different linguistic communities, in iran few investigations have been conducted with this aim. therefore, the present study was after testing simplification hypothesis in persian technical texts applying a contrastive approach. to this end, a comparable corpus of persian translated and non-translated technical texts of almost equal size - 13529 words of non-translated texts and 13236 words of the translated ones- was compiled; wordsmith tools as a concordance program was used to count types, tokens, lexical words, and sentences of the corpus. the persian technical translated texts had lower mean sentence length, lower type/token ratio, and lower lexical density than the non-translated texts. although the results of the study were not statistically significant applying t-test, it seemed that simplification as a translation universal was true in persian technical translated texts; they seemingly were simpler than their non-translated counterparts. the findings of the study may be applied in teaching translation of technical texts to the students of translation field in order to make more natural translations.