Translation Shifts in Regard to Translation from English into Arabic and Vice Versa

Jabak, Omar; Abdullah, Syed Nuruakla Syed; Talif, Rosli

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“…In light of the distinct incongruity between English, which belongs to the Indo-European family and Arabic, which belongs to the Semitic family, their linguistic systems are significantly different. This great discrepancy paves the way for Catford's notion of translation shifts (Jabak et al, 2016). From their point of view, Translation Shifts noticeably rationalize translators' preference for free translation over literal translation when the source language and the target language belong to two completely different families.…”

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Changes in the Syntactic Structure in English-Arabic Simultaneous Interpreting

Altalqani

2024

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Simultaneous interpreting represents a challenge for interpreters working between typologically distinct languages, like the English-Arabic language pair. The present study is conducted to explore transfers in passive voice verbs between English as the source language and Arabic as the target language in a corpus of an interpreted English speech and its corresponding Arabic counterpart. A mixed qualitative and quantitative approach is adopted in the present study to identify recurrences of passive voice verbs and to explore the ways of rendering them into Arabic. Translation shifts are identified according to Catford’s (1965) approach. The findings of the present study reveal that nearly half of the passive voice verbs found in the source text are rendered using active voice verbs in the target text. The findings also reveal that there are four other ways of rendering passive voice verbs, including using a noun phrase, omitting a part of a sentence or a sentence as a whole, using a noun, or maintaining the passive voice form of the source verb in the target sentence. The present study contributes to promoting practices that enrich the field of English-Arabic simultaneous interpreting. It also contributes to enriching the research domain with its findings that hold special significance as the passive voice verbs constitute a divergence point between the two languages.

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Changes in the Syntactic Structure in English-Arabic Simultaneous Interpreting

Altalqani

2024

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“…A possible explanation for these results is the absence of linguistic constraints that might force the subtitlers to opt for class shift. Some researchers like Aoudi (2001), Becher (2011), Farrokh (2011), Jabak et al (2016 stressed that shifts are unavoidable in any translation and they normally occur at category type due to the linguistic differences between the SL and TL. As result of this huge linguistic gap between languages, translators tend to preserve the naturalness of the TT through the utilization of some interventional strategies as long as the main purpose of translation is to preserve the intended message (Kadhim & Khader, 2011).…”

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“…A review of the literature of on transposition/class shift reveals that most previous studies (e.g., Sudana & Yadnya 2021, Widyadari et al 2021, Jabak et al 2016, Kadhim & Hijjo, 2017 have addressed category shifts and its different kinds, i.e. structural shifts, class shifts, unit/rank shifts and intra-system shifts.…”

Section: Literature Review Transpositionmentioning

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Issues in the Utilization of Transposition: A Case Study of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

Alharthi

2022

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The Translation Obstacles of Passive Voice in Obama’s Presidential Speeches

Dawood,

Mohammed

2023

Integr. J. Res. Arts Humanities

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This paper aimed at finding weather if the English passive voice construction used in Obama’s political speeches, will be preserved or not when translated into Arabic. This paper hypothesize that the passive voice construction is not preserved during the process of translation from English to Arabic. In conclusion according to the analysis of the samples most of the translators use active voice instead of the passive voice in translating the statements that is due to the fact that the complexity of Arabic language differs from that of the English language, both languages differ in culture and norms and follows different grammar. This study provides an overview on translating passive voice forms from English to Arabic using Obama's presidential speeches. This paper serves as a valuable resource for analyzing passive voice constructions, developing translation strategies, and evaluating translation outcomes. It is expected to contribute to the field of translation studies and enhance understanding of the complexities involved in translating between these two languages. It attempts to present a valuable addition to a topic in need of more relevant information.

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Translation Shifts in Regard to Translation from English into Arabic and Vice Versa

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Changes in the Syntactic Structure in English-Arabic Simultaneous Interpreting

Changes in the Syntactic Structure in English-Arabic Simultaneous Interpreting

Issues in the Utilization of Transposition: A Case Study of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

The Translation Obstacles of Passive Voice in Obama’s Presidential Speeches

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