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Difficulties In Translating Conor McGregor's Ironic speeches with Reference to Gricean Maxims: A Pragmatic Perspective | ||
| Journal of Language Studies | ||
| Volume 9, Issue 4, Part 2, December 2025, Pages 276-298 PDF (601.86 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.25130/Lang.9.4.P2.14 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Baraa Faeq Mohan1; Omar Ahmed Shihab2 | ||
| 1College of Arts, Tikrit University | ||
| 2College of Education for Humanities, Tikrit University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study examines the challenges of translating ironic expressions in Conor McGregor’s speeches, focusing on how his flouting of Grice’s maxims—especially Relevance—impacts the translation from English into Arabic. Adopting Newmark’s semantic and communicative approaches, the study analyzes four pre-fight press conference clips translated independently by five MA students. It evaluates the type of irony, flouted maxims, translation strategy, and rendering quality. Results show verbal irony and communicative translation are most effective in preserving rhetorical impact. The study highlights the role of cultural competence and context awareness in achieving accurate translation, recommending pragmatic strategies and communicative methods in translator training for irony-rich discourse. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Concept of Irony; Irony and Context; Irony and Culture; Types of Irony | ||
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