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Dr. Omar Osman Jabak

Lecturer

عضو هيئة تدريس

كلية المجتمع بالرياض
ojabak@KSU.EDU.SA
publication
Journal Article
2016

SYNTACTIC TRANSLATION STRATEGIES FOR RETAINING PARALLELISM IN THE ARABIC TRANSLATION OF MOBY DICK

: parallelism syntactic strategies translation strategy Moby Dick English-Arabic translation

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.

Publication Work Type
Research Article
Volume Number
5
Issue Number
2
Magazine \ Newspaper
Issues in Language Studies
Pages
44-57
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