Arabic Language and Literature
Zahra Hadavi Khalil-Abad; Hosein Imanian; Ali Bashiri
Abstract
More than being a “tool” for translating knowledge and awareness from one language to another, translation is a “process” for reflecting cultural and social concepts. To improve the quality of such reflection, new perspectives on translation, linguistics, and discourse can be ...
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More than being a “tool” for translating knowledge and awareness from one language to another, translation is a “process” for reflecting cultural and social concepts. To improve the quality of such reflection, new perspectives on translation, linguistics, and discourse can be used. One of the new perspectives on translation is the proposal of the Spanish Carmen Garcés (1994), which has four levels: “semantic-lexical”, “syntactic-word-constructive”, “discourse-functional” and “stylistic-practical”. With the help of these four levels, it is possible to investigate the increase, maintenance, and decrease the original text information in the translated text. By counting the positive and negative features of translation, the adequacy and acceptability of translation are also evaluated in this theory. In the following article, based on this theory, we critique the translation of Habibullah Abbasi from the book Sufism and Surrealism written by Adonis. Although the translator has increased the volume of the translated text by adopting the method of “synonymy” and bringing more or fewer captions, according to the criteria set by Garcés, his translation has the feature of preserving the information of the source text. In spite of the criticisms that can be leveled at the translator's method of translating terms and the type of word-for-word translation, in general, his translation has a degree of adequacy and acceptability as stated in Garcés’ theory.
Arabic Language and Literature
Sayyed Esmaeil Ghasemi Musavi
Abstract
There is a lack of books in Arabic language translation studies in the field of translation theories; therefore, there is an absolute need to write new books and critics available books. “Derasat fi Nazariyat Al-Tarjomah Fi Daow Al-Khobrat BE Aal-Loqhat Al-Arabiat” written by Mehmed Kico ...
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There is a lack of books in Arabic language translation studies in the field of translation theories; therefore, there is an absolute need to write new books and critics available books. “Derasat fi Nazariyat Al-Tarjomah Fi Daow Al-Khobrat BE Aal-Loqhat Al-Arabiat” written by Mehmed Kico and translated into Arabic by Jamal Al-Din Syed Mohammad is one of that sources. This book is important not only because of its subject. The author is an Arabic-Bosnian translator, and it has been written without focusing on Western European languages, including English, and French in translation theories. The present article analyzes this book in an analytical method and attempts to examine its form, content, and its abality to be teached in Arabic traanslation studies principle. The most important results of this paper are the importance of the subject and the viewpoint of the writer, expressesing issues in translation theories, a notation to issues of translation from/into Arabic, diminish of Eurocentric perspective in concepts, use of numerous and various sources. The weaknesses also include overlapping of some content, lack of education and learning outcomes, not referring to some of the important topics in translation studies such as evaluating translation quality, and discourse analysis.
