Translating Arabic Love Paronomasial Terms into English: A Pragmatic Analysis
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Translation, Paronomasia, Pragmatic AnalysisAbstract
The current study is concerned with the problems translators face when they want to translate Arabic love paronomasial terms into English in the light of their pragmatic implicational discourse. Arabic has a significant feature of paronomasia, especially lip service expressions, which enrich emotional depth, cultural context, and nuanced meaning adds. The study examines how these complex devices of meaning are translated into English, taking into account the loss of aspects of meaning, cultural significance, and pragmatic effect. The study examines chosen Arabic source text along with its two translated versions into English by two Assistant Professors at the Department of Translation/College of Arts/University of Tikreet to determine the common strategies used in translating the emotional and rhetorical elements in the source text, namely literal translation, paraphrasing, and creation. The results point toward the challenges inherent in paronomasial translation, and the need to achieve equivalences in pragmatic functions, along with balancing fidelity to the source language with adequate treatment in the target language.
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