An Investigation into Norm Extraction with Regard to Domestication and Foreignization of Culture-Specific Items: A Case of Children’s Literature in the Past Four Years

The aim of this research was an investigation into norm extraction regarding the domestication and foreignization of culture specific items (CSIs) in the children’s literature in the last four years (from 1393 to 1396). The corpus of this study was 8 English children’s books with their Persian translated versions. The theoretical framework of the research was associated with the Venuti translation strategies which are called domestication and foreignization. In order to identify the CSIs in the SL, the researcher used the taxonomies of culture-specific items of Espindola and Vasconcellos and Newmark and in order to associate each strategy with domestication or foreignization, the researcher has collected some procedures proposed by Aixelá, Vinay and Darbelnet and Newmark. The collected data from these books and their translations were inserted in tables and their strategies were identified by the use of the mentioned models. The findings of this research evinced that the strategies of domestication with 84.9% dominated the strategies of foreignization with 15%. As a conclusion the strategies which were regarded as the extracted norms were specified.