Meaning and translation in linguistic fieldwork

Hellwig, Birgit

doi:10.1075/sl.34.4.02hel

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“…They are inadequate sources for the actual truth of world (see Mouristen, 2010). Hellwig (2010) proposes that discovering the construction where a word occurs is very paramount to get the denotative meaning of that word. Particularly speaking, in translation, the interpretation is always about the possible meanings not the precise and the exact ones.…”

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Analysis of the Quranic Text Using intertextuality: A Case Study of Two Lexemes

Khawaldeh

2017

ALLS

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The aim of the present study was to show how intertextuality could be a viable approach to determine the intended meaning of words in religious texts such as the Holy Quran. In order to do just this, the researcher selected two Quranic words to be the data of the study. These were "الخشية"(al- xshiah) and الخوف (al-xawf). The study argues that the former effected internally (i.e. stemming from the human being himself/herself), but "الخوف"(al-xawf) is created by either an internal or external force (i.e. stemming from the human being himself/herself or from external factors). Furthermore, "الخوف" (al-xawf) reflects a real feeling of panic, which causes the heart to pump quickly, butالخشية" "(al-xshiah) does not reflect such a feeling. Finally, we dare to make the claim that who does not fear يخاف""(yaxaf) Allah will be punished but who does not يخشى" "(yaxsha)Allah will not be punished.

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Analysis of the Quranic Text Using intertextuality: A Case Study of Two Lexemes

Khawaldeh

2017

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“…International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2013 that the meaning of a word is not just influenced by that which falls in its vicinity, but also by the truth-values of its competitors in the lexicon. Hellwig (2010) stresses that in order to discover the meaning of the property of denoting expressions; we have to discover the meaning of the constructions they occur in. He magnifies the importance of reaching an accurate meaning particularly in translation and the problems translators face when rendering a text into another language.…”

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Intertextuality as a Tool to Determine Syntax

Hammouri¹,

Jarrah²,

Khawaldeh³

2013

IJL

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The aim of the present study was to indicate that intertextuality could be a viable approach to determine certain syntactical aspects through laying down the intended meaning of words. In order to do just this, the researchers selected a syntactically ambiguous verse cited from the Glorious Quran; this verse is Al-Tahrim, (4). As for the machinery, a two-level analysis has been attempted. At the first level, the interpretations of some major Muslim expositors were provided, taking into consideration their understanding to the syntax of this verse. At the second, some attempts are made up to provide alternative explanations by bringing out the local and global intuitions that the key words of the verse invoke in the Qur'anic text as a coherent whole. Concerning the findings, the study indicated that the classic interpretations of this verse must be revisited as they are mostly inaccurate. These conclusions include the following. The word /ḑahiir/ is best rendered into English as a helper and is not a

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“…Problems of translation can occur in any multilingual situation, but they are especially pressing in linguistic field research, where at least some and at worst all of the stages of data collection, analysis, description and comparison happen in a language other than the one under investigation. Such problems include at least the following (Werner 1993;Dimmendaal 1995;Ameka 2008;Hellwig 2010): various processes of calquing and replacing of categories may occur; literal translations can be very different from culturally appropriate translations; semantic distinctions may be lost or obscured; and semantic categories may be reshaped when we work through the filter of another language. There will never be easy solutions to those problems, but being aware of them, we can design our methods of data collection and analysis accordingly.…”

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Folk definitions in linguistic fieldwork

Dingemanse

2015

Culture and Language Use

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Informal paraphrases by native speaker consultants are crucial tools in linguistic fieldwork. When recorded, archived, and analysed, they offer rich data that can be mined for many purposes, from lexicography to semantic typology and from ethnography to the investigation of gesture and speech. This paper describes a procedure for the collection and analysis of folk definitions that are native (in the language under study rather than the language of analysis), informal (spoken rather than written), and multi-modal (preserving the integrity of gesture-speech composite utterances). The value of folk definitions is demonstrated using the case of ideophones, words that are notoriously hard to study using traditional elicitation methods. Three explanatory strategies used in a set of folk definitions of ideophones are examined: the offering of everyday contexts of use, the use of depictive gestures, and the use of sense relations as semantic anchoring points. Folk definitions help elucidate word meanings that are hard to capture, bring to light cultural background knowledge that often remains implicit, and take seriously the crucial involvement of native speaker consultants in linguistic fieldwork. They provide useful data for language documentation and are an essential element of any toolkit for linguistic and ethnographic field research

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Meaning and translation in linguistic fieldwork

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Analysis of the Quranic Text Using intertextuality: A Case Study of Two Lexemes

Analysis of the Quranic Text Using intertextuality: A Case Study of Two Lexemes

Intertextuality as a Tool to Determine Syntax

Folk definitions in linguistic fieldwork

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