Abstract Culture and the dominant social power has always been important in translation studies and had a great impact on the translators as well. The writers of this article have chosen a novel in English and its three Persian translations to look for a remarkable relationship between lexical choices of the translators in the different social periods in Iran. The theoretical framework of this study is Toury’s Descriptive Translation Theory and Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis. To do the study, the researchers have chosen three translations of the above mentioned English novel from the three different phases of Iranian society, to see if there is a significant difference between the lexical choices of these translations in these different periods or no? The results of the study show that, there is a significant relationship between the social forces of the time and the lexical choices of the translators in these three different translations.

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