Problematizing Lexico-Grammatical Equivalence in Arabic-English Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23038486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tawffeek A S Mohammed (0000-0002-7314-9688, corresponding author), Tawffeek Abdou Saeed Mohammed Al-Kenani |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | VNU Journal of Foreign Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2525-2445 • E-ISSN: 2525-2445 |
| Publisher | Vietnam National University of Languages and International Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4374 |
| OpenAlex | W2957732604 |
| Language | CA |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This study deals with the concept of grammatical equivalence in Arabic-English translation. It investigates the problems that encounter student translators (STs) while translating grammatical constructions from Arabic into English. It is based on a parallel corpus of the translations of five groups of STs at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Taiz University, Yemen. The STs are doing their final year and by the time of the administration of the tasks, they had already studied 4 translation courses. The study concluded that the structural and morphological differences between Arabic and English have created various problems for the STs. Following Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), the grammatical problems at the ideational, interpersonal, textual and logico-semantic metafunctions were identified. The study concluded that the STs encountered various problems in terms of transitivity, modality, thematic structures, logical dependency and logico-semantic relations between the clauses. Those problems have not only affected the stylistic and grammatical aspects of the target texts, but they have sometimes yielded a meaning different from the one intended by the author(s).
Arabic · Equivalence (formal languages) · Grammar · Grammatical category · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Systemic functional grammar · Thematic structure · Transitive relation · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Translation Studies and Practices
The Theory and Practice of Translation
Introducing Functional Grammar
The Significance of Learner's Errors
Discourse and social change
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
A Communicative Grammar of English
Discourse and the Translator
Arabic Imperfect Verbs in Translation
Working with discourse
An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics
Grammar-Related Semantic Losses in the Translation of the Holy Quran, with Special Reference to Surah Al A'araf (The Heights)
Toward a Science of Translating
The Theory and Practice of Translation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |