Aspects of mistranslation from English into Ibibio: the case of Aids and the Ibibio Language Equivalent

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Aspects of mistranslation from English into Ibibio: the case of Aids and the Ibibio Language Equivalent

This paper examines the semantics of AIDS in Ibibio, one of Africa’s languages spoken in the Southern part of Nigeria. It asserts that “Udoño itiaita”, literally “Eight diseases”, which the Ibibio-speaking people adopted as AIDS equivalent in the language, is a mistranslation and semantically inacc...

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Main Author:	Effiong Ekpenyong
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2008
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1077/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1077/1/4-Effiong_Ekpenyong_bab4.pdf

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