Translation in Arabic language and literature
Fatemeh Dini; Javad Asghari
Abstract
Each profession has its own rules, limits, and restrictions, and for each profession, its boundaries and rules must be defined. Adherence to the standards, values, and limitations of each discipline can be defined as the professional ethics of that discipline. Due to the special position of the translator ...
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Each profession has its own rules, limits, and restrictions, and for each profession, its boundaries and rules must be defined. Adherence to the standards, values, and limitations of each discipline can be defined as the professional ethics of that discipline. Due to the special position of the translator in the translation process, the present article has tried to express the ethics of the translator's profession and the prerequisites of the translation profession while using the descriptive-analytical method. Understanding the prerequisites and challenges and slips of the translation profession, as well as work experience in specific fields, makes the translator specialize in a field of translation techniques, and the process of finding expertise provides an important part of professional ethics in the field. Hussam al-Din Mustafa in his book "Basics and rules of the translation industry" has referred to the subject of professional ethics of translation and to various issues in this field, which is the basis of this article. The authors have come to the conclusion that: Familiarity with the culture of the source language, specialization in translation, familiarity with the technique of translation, context in translation, and translation process, are the most important prerequisites that a translator should consider, to be able to provide a more acceptable translation.
Ali Hajikhaani; Norooz Amini
Abstract
One of the crucial issues to help translators understand the Quran is to take the context into consideration in the process of translation. And there is no doubt that, context is of great importance in understanding the speaker's meaning. Accordingly, paying attention to the context in translating the ...
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One of the crucial issues to help translators understand the Quran is to take the context into consideration in the process of translation. And there is no doubt that, context is of great importance in understanding the speaker's meaning. Accordingly, paying attention to the context in translating the Holy Quran is also necessary since any translation requires the true understanding of the holy verses. Meanwhile, it is very important to specify that which types of translations take the context into consideration. This study reviewed the main types of existing translations of the Quran including literal, faithful, semantic and explanatory translations and reached to this conclusion that among the translations mentioned, explanatory translation is more consistent with the context.
Hossein Shamsabadi Shamsabadi; Fereshteh Afzali
Volume 3, Issue 6 , March 2013, , Pages 29-48
Abstract
Different languages have different systems and any language has its own specific lexical elements, grammatical structures, expressions, and idioms. This implies that not all elements can be literally reproduced in another language. Therefore, for our translation to be natural and understandable in the ...
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Different languages have different systems and any language has its own specific lexical elements, grammatical structures, expressions, and idioms. This implies that not all elements can be literally reproduced in another language. Therefore, for our translation to be natural and understandable in the target language, we should make changes and transformations to the source text. One of the most important principles to be observed in such translations is finding exact and proper lexical, structural, and contextual equivalents in the process of transferring message from the source to the target language. To understand shifts present in the process of finding equivalents in the target language, the concept of equivalence is studied in the translation of a story on the three levels of similarity, shift, and transfer. Inspired by these shifts and techniques, the study aims to explore the methods of finding equivalents in the translation of Arabic stories into Persian on three levels, including: lexicon (colloquial, slang, loan, and communicative words), structure (literary writings, rhyming, and communicative and expressive translation), and context (paralinguistic elements, presuppositions, and semantic elements). A number of the stories by Naguib Mahfouz, including The Honeymoon, Midaq Alley, Under the Umbrella, The Thief and the Dogs, and The Beggar, are analyzed as the sample translations of the study.
