کوثر یوسفی تلوکلائی

While literature has explored the impact of multimodality, especially intermodality in translation practices, the intermodal translational aspect of audiobooks and their connection to audionarratology remain relatively unexplored. This paper adopts a comparative audionarratological perspective to analyze the intermodal translation of six literary books. In the first phase, the study seeks to identify the variations between the Persian translated and authored print versions of the books as the source text, and their corresponding audiobooks as the target text, elucidating the reasons for these variations. For doing so, Chesterman's (۲۰۱۶) classification of translation strategies and Porto Requejo's (۲۰۱۶) model of music and sound effects in multimodal narratives were employed. In the second phase, the purpose of the study was to determine a potential consistent relation between the found variations and the involved agents in producing audiobooks. To do so, ten audiobook publishers were interviewed about the process and procedures of audiobook production. The interview transcripts were thematically analyzed based on Braun and Clarke’s (۲۰۲۲) way of thematic analysis. In the first phase, the findings revealed that there was not a perfect correspondence between the source books and the target audiobooks. There was a predominant deployment of pragmatic strategies with the frequency of ۹۳% for linguistic variatio   however, a comprehensive perspective suggests that this did not disrupt the source text’s narrative coherence. Mode-dependent variations have resulted in the emergence of audio-specific features with the dominance of structural function accounting for a significant ۶۷% of the occurrences. The results of the second phase showed that pre-production, production, and post-production are the three main steps of producing audiobooks and it was in the second and the third step that decisions on linguistic and mode-dependent variations were made signifying the important role of the agents in choosing the translation strategies for both the linguistic and mode-dependent levels. The study highlights the point that any form of variation should be employed in a manner that preserves the fundamental coherence of the ST narrative.