The Routledge Course in Arabic Business Translation

Altarabin, Mahmoud

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“…The research done in this area is not adequate and has its limitations and gaps. Altarabin [18] argues that the idea of getting equivalence in translation is a kind of illusion that contradicts the core issue of legal translation. "There has been no consensus on translation equivalence, which has encouraged a continuous debate among translation theorists for decades" (p. 3).…”

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On Translating and Drafting Sharia Legal Terms and Expressions in Saudi Contracts

Alhomoud

2022

Education Research International

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The difficulty in translating legal sharia expressions and terminologies used in contracts arises from semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, contextual, and cultural features of the Islamic sharia expressions. The present study aims to address the problems arising when translating these contracts from Arabic into English and vice versa. It also aims to reassess the translations of several international business contracts translated from Arabic into English and vice versa to verify whether the legal Islamic terms and expressions have been accurately rendered or not. The Saudi legal system is based completely on sharia law. The Saudi contracts abound with religious expressions and terms, which sometimes have no equivalence in the English language. There is a crystal-clear cultural–religious gap between Arabic and English. The language of contracts must be accurate, precise, meaningful, and comprehensible. Any slight difference in translating these contracts might result in the loss of individual rights, which affects the foreign investments and the social life of residents and citizens. The present study is a qualitative study that adopts a critical hermeneutic method to address the highly controversial issues relating to the translation of Islamic legal terms and expressions. The study has found that the Islamic legal terms and expressions are translatable providing that the translator could use a hermeneutical translational approach. The study is original in the sense that it deals with the problems of translating the religious expressions embedded and constituted in the Saudi contracts.

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On Translating and Drafting Sharia Legal Terms and Expressions in Saudi Contracts

Alhomoud

2022

Education Research International

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“…For example, Chidlow et al (2014), advocate taking into account a process of intercultural interaction in business translation. Altarabin (2021) underlines the function that a translated business text performs. Such a function, Chiper (2002) argues, is essential given that business appears to privilege time and costs.…”

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Business Translation Ethics from the Angle of Skopos Theory

Prommak

2022

THTS

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Translation is known to significantly contribute to business success, particularly in today's international business context. Many business translation works are produced to achieve target-side purposes, as opposed to the equivalence between a source text (ST) and a target text (TT). Translation guided by the TT's intended functions is claimed to fall under Vermeer's (1978) skopos theory that has been attracting active interest from scholars in translation studies. However, with great priority being assigned to the TT's determined purposes, many questions whether a TT that is not faithful to the ST should be deemed ethical. In the literature, business translation ethics under the skopos theory does not seem to abound. This paper therefore discusses this topic, commencing with examining business translation prior to associating it with the skopos theory. Then it explores translation ethics and proposes three ethical concerns to be pondered for business translation from the angle of skopos theory. These are functionality, loyalty and accountability.

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A Critical Analysis of Saudi Legal Terms and their English Translations

Flaij Alharbi,

BinMasad

2023

SSRN Journal

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The Routledge Course in Arabic Business Translation

Cited by 3 publications

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On Translating and Drafting Sharia Legal Terms and Expressions in Saudi Contracts

On Translating and Drafting Sharia Legal Terms and Expressions in Saudi Contracts

Business Translation Ethics from the Angle of Skopos Theory

A Critical Analysis of Saudi Legal Terms and their English Translations

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