Strategies and Procedures Used in Translating Ideological Islamic-Related Texts from English into Arabic

Dweik, Bader S.; Khaleel, Hiyam M.

doi:10.5539/ijel.v7n3p161

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“…In addition to the knowledge of both languages and their culture, translating idioms requires knowledge of strategies that are appropriate for rendering and conveying the intended meaning (Dweik & Thalji, 2016, Howwar, 2013. The translator, according to Nida (1964, p. 167), has to make a natural rendering of the message and meaning and facilitate the transfer of cultural elements from one language into another.…”

Section: Translating Idiomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translation Evaluation of Three Machine Translation Systems, with Special References to Idiomatic Expressions

Musaad¹,

Towity²

2023

hesj

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One of the major challenges posed by machine translation (MT) when translating between English and Arabic is idiomatic expressions since their meanings are not taken literally but have a cultural meaning behind them, and they are “all in all metaphorical and cannot be understood directly” (Ghazala, 2003). Therefore, the main aim of the present study is to evaluate and compare the performance of three online MT systems namely, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Systran in translating English idiomatic expressions into Arabic in online newspapers. To achieve the goals of the present study, twenty idiomatic expressions which are the most frequently used in six British and American online newspapers have been identified, fed, discussed, compared and analyzed qualitatively by the researchers. Findings of the present study show that although the three online MT systems were not able to provide accurate translations of the English idiomatic expressions into Arabic in six online newspapers, Microsoft Bing machine is rated the best and has a better performance. Whereas Googles’s translation is found the least accurate as some words were not translated at all, and others were mistranslated. The study concludes that MT systems can be improved to get a better quality and provide an accurate translation if they deal with the idiomatic expressions as a unit and not individually. Since these are fixed idiomatic expressions, they are usually resolved using a simple memory translation, which sets side-by-side the English and the Arabic expressions without much cognitive effort.

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Section: Translating Idiomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translation Evaluation of Three Machine Translation Systems, with Special References to Idiomatic Expressions

Musaad¹,

Towity²

2023

hesj

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“…On the other hand, many studies were concerned with the use of omission as a translation strategy including translation theorists such as (Baker 2000(Baker , 2006Chesterman, 1997;Delisle et al, 1999;Laver & Mason, 2018;Leppihalme, 1997) and translation scholars (such as Alajlan, 2016;Buitkuvienė, 2012;Davies, 2007;Dimitriu, 2004;Dweik, & Khaleel, 2017;Elewa, 2015;Hashemian & Arezi, 2015;Tso, 2010). The use of omission in translation can be studied from different perspectives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Omission as a translation strategy is used for different purposes: observing editorial norms or avoiding cultural taboos [standardization]; supporting specific ideology [institutional or self-censorship] (Baker, 2006;Dweik, & Khaleel, 2017;Tso, 2010); the translator's desire to eliminate redundant and irrelevant elements to make the text more fluent [functional equivalence] (Alajlan, 2016;Leppihalme, 1997) and to avoid confusion that may happen when using lengthy explanations that may distract the reader, especially if the omitted particular item or expression is not vital enough to the development of the text (Davies, 2003(Davies, , 2007Hashemian & Arezi, 2015); presenting only essential information in contrast to secondary information well-known to the TT readers (Elewa, 2015); observing text-type and genre-related norms; keeping the aesthetics of the literary text (Buitkuvienė, 2012); or a particular translation skopos (Laver & Mason, 2018).…”

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Omission as a Problem and a Solution in Literary Translation: A Study of Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants and Joyce’s The Sisters and Their Arabic Translations

Abdullatief

2020

Journal of Languages and Translation

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Omission has a multifaceted nature with regards to literary translation. It functions as a cohesive device represented in ellipsis, as a literary device, and as a translation strategy. Ellipsis, as both a cohesive device and a literary device in a text, poses a challenge for the literary translator who is to render faithfully the author's style and the identity of the text. On the other hand, literary translators may resort to omission as a translation strategy to overcome specific translation problems. This paper aims at investigating this multifaceted nature of omission and foregrounding its role as both a problem and a solution in literary translation. The corpus of the study is taken from Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Joyce's The Sisters which are known with their frequent use of ellipsis. Categorization of ellipsis in this study is based on Halliday and Hasan (1976), Quirk et al. (1985), and Biber et al. (1999). The paper also studies the translation strategies used to overcome omission as a problem, and at the same time, analyzes the use of omission to overcome other translation problems. The results show that literary translators mostly resort to four translation strategies when translating omission. Such strategies should be cautiously used; otherwise they may have adverse effects. The same rule applies to the use of omission as a translation strategy. Omission has a multifaceted nature with regards to literary translation. It functions as a cohesive device represented in ellipsis, as a literary device, and as a

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“…However, translation is not always simple, especially when it comes to translating idioms and culturally specific expressions. In order to render and convey the intended meaning, translation requires an understanding of both languages, both cultures, and the right strategies (Dweik & Thalji, 2016). Understanding one culture can open doors to understanding another, as language and culture are inseparable twins.…”

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confidence: 99%

Contemporary Arabic and English Idioms: Translating Difficulties and Strategies

Zannrni

Hamza

shareef

2023

3rd International Conference on Language and Education

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Translation is prospering in Iraq in general and people have become more interested in translation due to the fact that Translation is a primary way of communication. Also, Translation has been a good business recently. Idioms are culturally specific and contain several cultural characteristics, translating idioms is difficult. The goal of this study is to have better understand the challenges faced by Translation Iraqi undergraduates while translating idioms. The researchers conducted a test to determine the problems and difficulties. 60 senior students from University of Mosul and Cihan University-Erbil in Iraq participated in the test most of them were females. The study concludes that incorrect translation resulted from lack of understanding the culture, the misuse of idioms dictionaries, and the lack of equivalence.

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Strategies and Procedures Used in Translating Ideological Islamic-Related Texts from English into Arabic

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Translation Evaluation of Three Machine Translation Systems, with Special References to Idiomatic Expressions

Translation Evaluation of Three Machine Translation Systems, with Special References to Idiomatic Expressions

Omission as a Problem and a Solution in Literary Translation: A Study of Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants and Joyce’s The Sisters and Their Arabic Translations

Contemporary Arabic and English Idioms: Translating Difficulties and Strategies

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