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On Translating Arabic Verbal Emphasis into English

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Author	Alyousef, Haitham (Mohd Khair) Ahmad Mahadi, Tengku Sepora Tengku
Copyright Year	2019
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal The translators constitute facing a challenge in the translation of Arabic verbal emphasis structure. Therefore, this study investigates the translation of Arabic verbal emphasis category and its subcategories into English from semantic and pragmatic perspectives. It draws upon an examination of several translations of these emphatic devices and structures into English. Specifically, it draws upon the translations of Naguib Mahfouz’s novels The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Children of Gebalawi (1988) and the Harafish (2013) and Ghassan Kanafani’s short stories Palestine’s Children (2000). The study highlights the erroneous strategies adopted by the translators of these literary works and suggests more suitable alternative translations. As a result of several mismatches between Arabic and English leads to such errors. This study attempts to handle a gape in literature and help translators to overcome the obstacles they may face in rendering such Arabic structures in English. The article concludes that translating Arabic verbal emphatic structure into English would be affected by the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic symmetries and asymmetries between the two languages.
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ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3447642
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2019-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Language Studies Arabic Verbal Emphasis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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