An analysis of literary translation Arabic/English
This study is concerned with an analysis of the process of literary translation from Arabic into English, using as basic source material a number of short stories by Yahya Haqqi and Nagib Mahfuz and their English translations by M. Badawi, Denys Johnson Davies and Akef Abadir and Roger Allen, respectively. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first is a review of the relevant literature, and involves the introduction and discussion of a set of concepts fundamental to the field of (literary) translation, most notably the notion of equivalence and formal correspondence vs. translation equivalence. Also approached in this first chapter is the problem of equivalence in translation and its relation to contrastive analysis. We conclude this chapter with a discussion of the adopted approach, the significance of the present study and the formulation of a number of working hypotheses. Chapters two to four examine Badawi's translation of The Three Orphans and A Game of Cards. Davies's The Ditch and Zaabalawi, and Abadir and Allen's God's World , on the one hand, and students' translations of the same works , on the other. These chapters highlight the syntactic , semantic and cultural problems identified in the
Lataiwish, Muftah S.
Linguistics
An analysis of literary translation Arabic/English. This study is concerned with an analysis of the process of literary translation from Arabic into English, using as basic source material a number of short stories by Yahya Haqqi and Nagib Mahfuz and their English translations by M. Badawi, Denys Johnson Davies and Akef Abadir and Roger Allen, respectively. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first is a review of the relevant literature, and involves the introduction and discussion of a set of concepts fundamental to the field of (literary) translation, most notably the notion of equivalence and formal correspondence vs. translation equivalence. Also approached in this first chapter is the problem of equivalence in translation and its relation to contrastive analysis. We conclude this chapter with a discussion of the adopted approach, the significance of the present study and the formulation of a number of working hypotheses. Chapters two to four examine Badawi's translation of The Three Orphans and A Game of Cards. Davies's The Ditch and Zaabalawi, and Abadir and Allen's God's World , on the one hand, and students' translations of the same works , on the other. These chapters highlight the syntactic , semantic and cultural problems identified in the
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