Translating the <i>invisible</i> in the Qur'an

Al-Kharabsheh, Aladdin; Al-Azzam, Bakri

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“…study the linguistic material in 355 shop signs in Irbid (a city in north Jordan) to see the use of foreign elements in these signs. Al-Kharabsheh et al (2008) investigate orthographic translation errors and problems in shop signs in the Jordanian public commercial environment. Trumper-Hecht (2009) investigates the linguistic landscape of Upper Nazareth, Israel, to show how the LL can be a site where identity is constructed by the two groups in the city and the "language battle" between Arabic and Hebrew which reflects the overall tension in Jewish-Arab relations.…”

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Linguistics landscape: A cross culture perspective

Duizenberg

2020

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This paper was to aim in discussing the linguistic landscape. It was the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis 1997). The linguistic landscape has been described as being somewhere at the junction of sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology, geography, and media studies. It is a concept used in sociolinguistics as scholars study how languages are visually used in multilingual societies, from large metropolitan centers to Amazonia. For example, some public signs in Jerusalem are in Hebrew, English, and Arabic (Spolsky and Cooper 1991, Ben-Rafael et al., 2006). Studies of the linguistic landscape have been published from research done around the world. The field of study is relatively recent; the linguistic landscape paradigm has evolved rapidly and while it has some key names associated with it, it currently has no clear orthodoxy or theoretical core.

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Linguistics landscape: A cross culture perspective

Duizenberg

2020

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“…In light of the relativist view adopted on the Islamic soil, it is quite noticeable that most of the existing English translations of the Qur'an seem to have focused on rendering the basic message to the TL, but without capturing the peculiarities and prototypical features and nuances of the Qur'anic discourse (Ali, Alsaleh, Munif and Sharifah 2012;Aldahesh 2014;Zubair and Mudassar 2015;Al-Kharabsheh 2008). To this effect, Abdelwali (2007, 157) contends that "the versatility of the Qur'anic lexemes and styles were not captured in most of the English versions of the Qur'an."…”

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Translating Mental Tropes Related to Active andPassive Participles: Syntactic Twisting andSemantic Exclusivity

2020

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This paper endeavors to promote research intothe under-explored field of mental tropes byinvestigating the translatability of twointriguing types: the active participle and thepassive participle. These two types have beenexamined with special reference to the Qur’an. Aclose-reading-of-parallel-texts method has beenused. The method involves the selection ofQur’anic texts and their correspondingtranslations in conjunction with a host ofQur’an-related authentic exegeses as to providea point of departure for the ensuing discussion.Analysis mainly reveals two distinct cases of syntactic twisting and semantic exclusivity: thefirst is where the active participle is found toserve the function and give the meaning of thepassive participle, and the second is where thepassive participle is found to serve thefunction and give the meaning of the activeparticiple. The study also shows thattranslation incommensurabilities (Kuhn, 1962) atthe syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, rhetorical,and exegetical levels are very much in evidencein the selected translations, which may precludea translation from assuming a trusted authority.Finally, the study proposes a tenabletranslation procedure to deal with Qur’anicmental tropes, viz. the communicative-exegetictranslation. Keywords: translatability, mental tropes, active andpassive participles, syntactic twisting,semantic exclusivity, communicative-exegetictranslation.

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“…Another problem of translation, which is related to the connotative meaning, results from the semantically invisible meanings. Al-Kharabsheh and Al-Azzam (2008) postulate that Quranic lexemes have visible meanings, which are mistakenly deemed to be the intended ones; and invisible meanings, which are the really intended ones. Semantically invisible elements, according to Al-Kharabsheh and Al-Azzam (2008) have two meanings; surface (i.e.…”

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Translating Connotative Meaning in the Translation of the Holy Quran: Problems and Solutions

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Abdelaal²

2018

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Connotative meaning is one of the most challenging aspects in translation, especially between two different cultures such as English and Arabic. The problem is more aggravated when the translation occurs from a sacred and sophisticated text such as the Holy Quran. As a result, losses in translation occur. This study, therefore, is an attempt to identify the losses in the translation of connotative meaning in the Holy Quran, propose strategies to reduce such losses, and identify the causes of such losses. For this purpose, seven examples were extracted from the Holy Quran and were qualitatively analysed. The analysis of the extracted data revealed that connotative meaning was quite challenging in translation and losses occurred. These problems in preserving the connotative meaning of the source text (ST) word or playing it down are due to two main causes: the first cause is the lack of equivalence, while the second one is the translator's failure to pick the most appropriate equivalent. Non-equivalence problems were mainly represented in lack of lexicalization, semantic complexity, culturally-bound terms, difference in expressive meaning, and difference in distinction of meaning between the source language (SL) and the target language (TL). Some strategies were suggested to reduce such loss in the translation of connotative meaning. These strategies include footnoting, transliteration, periphrastic translation, and accuracy of selecting the proper equivalent that can be achieved by triangulation procedures such as peerchecking and expert-checking.

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Translating the invisible in the Qur'an

Cited by 11 publications

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Linguistics landscape: A cross culture perspective

Linguistics landscape: A cross culture perspective

Translating Mental Tropes Related to Active andPassive Participles: Syntactic Twisting andSemantic Exclusivity

Translating Connotative Meaning in the Translation of the Holy Quran: Problems and Solutions

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