Translating Proper Nouns from Arabic into English: Barriers and Procedures

Dweik, Bader S.; Al-Sayyed, Sa'ida Walid

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2795878

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“…This could be attributed to the fact that the setting takes place in the real world, and as such, many of the places are not constructed, unlike the works of high fantasy under investigation here. Dweik and Al-Sayyed (2016) investigated translating proper nouns in a training situation. The data corpus consists of student translations of 29 proper nouns divided into personal names, geographical places and institutions.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

From the Red Keep to Winterfell: Translating Toponyms in High Fantasy Literature from English into Arabic

Mizher¹,

Mahadin²

2023

IJAES

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The recent popularity of the fantasy genre in the Arabic world has seen increased translation activity into Arabic (De Blasio 2019). Despite this interest, scholars have focused their attention on low fantasy, with little attention to high fantasy. This study investigates book five of George R.R Martin’s novel series “A Dance with Dragons (2011), and its Arabic translation رقصة مع التنانين raqsa mc ?ltanani:n (2020) with a specific focus on Toponyms. The study uses textual analysis of the translation of book five of the novel series to determine the translation procedures used, and interviews with the official translator to understand the factors behind the translation choices in the series. The study adopts Aixelá’s 1996 model of culture-specific items (CSI) for the classification of the translation procedures. The results indicate the prevalence of two main translation procedures; conservation and substitution. The two procedures are used to strike a balance between the readability of the text, readers’ expectations, and maintaining the fantasy of the secondary world in which the narrative takes place.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

From the Red Keep to Winterfell: Translating Toponyms in High Fantasy Literature from English into Arabic

Mizher¹,

Mahadin²

2023

IJAES

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“…For example, e.g., cellule d'écoute> helpline > ‫‬ ‫خليةانصات‬ (Zakhir, 2008); k) recognized translation that is defined by (Newmark P. , A Textbook of Translation, 1988) as a procedure used to translate institutional terms using the commonly used, official or generally accepted TL corresponding terms. An example is ‫‬ ‫البنكالدول‬ which has two recognized translations International Bank and World Bank (Dweik & Al-Sayyed, 2016); l) translation label which considered as a procedure that is usually done provisionally in the case of translating a new institutional term; m) compensation of lost through rest of the text; n) Componential analysis. It is a procedure that occurs only when a lexical unit cannot be translated without splitting its semantic components; o) Reduction and expansion that occur particularly in poorly written texts; p) paraphrase.…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating Procedures for Translating Arabic Emblematic Gestures Into English in Novels

SOBHI

2022

IJEL Journal

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This study is part of a collection of case studies. The study aims to investigate the translation procedures followed by translators to translate Arabic Emblematic Gestures (AEGs) in novels into English. These gestures which are commonly used in the Arab world, are problematic as they do not have equivalent in English culture. To achieve the main goal of this study, data was collected by conducting an interview with five teaching staff members at Tripoli University to explore the translation procedures translators use to translate unparalleled written AEGs in novels and recognize the most appropriate translation procedure for translating this unparalleled written emblematic gesture. Raising this question would help translators in translating unparalleled written AEGs that occurred in novels. The researcher analysed the data using within-case analysis (separately) approaches of analysis. The results of this study show that translators use functional equivalence, metaphor, shift, adaptation, modulation, compensation, couplet of literal translation and functional equivalence, omission, footnote, explanation, cultural substitution, and sometimes borrowing and imitation to translate AEGs in novels.

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“…Even though the author claims that there is no clear best technique to choose, he provides series of recommendations that help to select a name matching technique. However, matching Arabic names written in Latin script is even more complicated, since "there are no rules for the translation of proper names" from Arabic script to Latin one (Halimah, 2016;Dweik and Al-Sayyed, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Arabic Personal Name Matching: Names Written using Latin Alphabet

Nehar¹,

Bellaouar²,

Ziadi³

et al. 2021

Journal of Computer Science

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In many Arab countries' public administrations, Arabic personal names are written with Latin alphabet, generally, in various ways by different writers. This has led to many problems when it comes to connecting these administrations. The aim of this study was to propose two new approaches for the pairwise matching of Arabic personal names. The first approach is based on string alignment and phonetic transcription. Appropriate scoring functions were defined to catch similarity between Arabic personal names. In the second approach, we use machine learning techniques to derive a suitable model for this problem. Precisely, we suggest using a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) architecture and experiment with different configurations. Performances of the new models compare well with the best-performing similarity measures (Jaro, Jaro-Winkler, Double Metaphone and Edit Distance) in terms of precision, recall and F1. Even though the work was carried out for the (Algeria/French Alphabet) case, it can be adapted to any other (country/script) case, like (Egypt/English).

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Translating Proper Nouns from Arabic into English: Barriers and Procedures

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

From the Red Keep to Winterfell: Translating Toponyms in High Fantasy Literature from English into Arabic

From the Red Keep to Winterfell: Translating Toponyms in High Fantasy Literature from English into Arabic

Investigating Procedures for Translating Arabic Emblematic Gestures Into English in Novels

Arabic Personal Name Matching: Names Written using Latin Alphabet

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