Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick
The present study examines strategies for translating parallelism and factors in retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of the novel of “Moby Dick”. Analysis is conducted on two sets of data taken from the English novel “Moby Dick” written by Melville in 1851 and its Arabic translation ‘Mūb...
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| description | The present study examines strategies for translating parallelism and factors in retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of the novel of “Moby Dick”. Analysis is conducted on two sets of data taken from the English novel “Moby Dick” written by Melville in 1851 and its Arabic translation ‘Mūbī Dīk’ by ʻAbbās (1980). This qualitative research is guided by Chesterman’s (1997) syntactic strategy model, and contrastive analysis (CA) is also performed. The contrastive analysis is carried out using a coding procedure based on themes and taxonomies in the acquired data constructed by the researchers. The result shows that, based on Chesterman’s (1997) model, the translator of the above-mentioned novel employed three strategies, namely, literal translation, clause structure change and transposition to maintain parallelism in the Arabic translation of the English novel. |
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| spelling | upm-539552018-02-22T06:44:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53955/ Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick Syed Abdullah, Syed Nurulakla Jabak, Omar Osman The present study examines strategies for translating parallelism and factors in retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of the novel of “Moby Dick”. Analysis is conducted on two sets of data taken from the English novel “Moby Dick” written by Melville in 1851 and its Arabic translation ‘Mūbī Dīk’ by ʻAbbās (1980). This qualitative research is guided by Chesterman’s (1997) syntactic strategy model, and contrastive analysis (CA) is also performed. The contrastive analysis is carried out using a coding procedure based on themes and taxonomies in the acquired data constructed by the researchers. The result shows that, based on Chesterman’s (1997) model, the translator of the above-mentioned novel employed three strategies, namely, literal translation, clause structure change and transposition to maintain parallelism in the Arabic translation of the English novel. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2016 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53955/1/Syntactic%20translation%20strategies%20for%20retaining%20parallelism%20in%20the%20Arabic%20translation%20.pdf Syed Abdullah, Syed Nurulakla and Jabak, Omar Osman (2016) Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick. Issues in Language Studies, 5 (2). pp. 44-57. ISSN 2180-2726 http://www.ils.unimas.my/vol5-no2 Parallelism; Syntactic strategies; Translation strategy; Moby Dick; English-Arabic translation |
| spellingShingle | Parallelism; Syntactic strategies; Translation strategy; Moby Dick; English-Arabic translation Syed Abdullah, Syed Nurulakla Jabak, Omar Osman Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick |
| title | Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick |
| title_full | Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick |
| title_fullStr | Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick |
| title_full_unstemmed | Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick |
| title_short | Syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of Moby Dick |
| title_sort | syntactic translation strategies for retaining parallelism in the arabic translation of moby dick |
| topic | Parallelism; Syntactic strategies; Translation strategy; Moby Dick; English-Arabic translation |
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