An Explicitation Syndromee: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Explicitating Shifts in the Translation of the Concessive Conjunction Although/Thoughh

Contrastive Analysis of Concessive Conjunctions in Translated and Non-translated Arabic Texts: An Exploratory Study

“…This is also confirmed by Table 6, which includes the other concessive conjunctive Adjuncts with a text reference item in the comparable corpus, which shows that those conjunctive groups are twice as frequent in both translated texts than their corresponding non-translations. In fact, this also seems to be consistent with a wider trend emerging from an analysis of the parallel corpus, where the text reference item ‫ذلك‬ (that) seems to be frequently deployed in upgrading and tactic explicitating shifts in the translated subcorpus (see Fattah, 2010Fattah, , 2016Fattah, and 2018. We will come back to this issue when we examine some features of relevance to upgrading and expansion.…”

“…The comparable analysis also revealed a reinforcement tendency, especially in Mahmoud's translation (TT2M), which could be regarded as a form of emphatic explicita- (Fattah, 2016). This involved the addition of a semantic component of emphasis, foregrounding or exclusiveness in the translated text.…”

“…Reinforcement features uncovered in the translated corpus included the more frequent use of double or triple concessive correlatives and 'explicitly objective' modal constructions, especially those denoting high probability. Such constructions, which were found to be nearly four times as common in the translations as they are in the non-translations, involve embedded expansion or rank-shifting through the use of the binder or complementiser ‫أن‬ (that), which is heavily involved in an overall tendency towards 'clausalization' (Fattah, 2016 and2018). Other manifestations of reinforcement emerging from the comparable analysis include the higher frequency of the foregrounding construction ‫أما‬ (as for)...‫فـ‬ (then) in the translations, especially Abu Hadid's, which can arguably be a possible form of textual explicitation manifesting itself as an exaggerated thematization tendency.…”