Translations of overtones in classical Arabic poetry

Optimality theory as a quality assessment framework

Bibliographic Data

ID21236136
AuthorsRaja Lahiani (0000-0003-3774-8568, corresponding author), Thanya Alfalasi, Asma Alzaabi, Noura Alhassani
Year2023
Volume11
Pages100143
Publication date2023-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmpersand (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2215-0390 • E-ISSN: 2215-0390
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.amper.2023.100143
OpenAlexW4385973624
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

Languages possess different tools to intensify speech overtones. While the resulting effect is semantic, grammatical, phonological, or lexical devices may be used. Words can be motivated in three ways: phonetically, morphologically, and semantically. Phonological motivation is part of the fabric of classical poetry. This study is concerned with the language used in Arabic poetry, which is made sufficiently sonorant to reflect the psyche and emotional status of the poet through the intensification of speech overtones. When translated into Western languages, the speech overtones of this poetry are not always evident. This study adopts the mechanisms of optimality theory, a cognitive linguistic approach. The mechanisms of this theory are adapted into assessment tools that can be used to evaluate the acoustic overtones of translations from classical Arabic poetry into English and French. The study uses a comparative strategy to assess a corpus of 13 French and English translations of a sample verse from classical Arabic poetry

Arabic · Art · Classical Arabic · Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Phonology · Poetry · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access