https://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl///handle/item/4167 2026-04-13T15:48:45Z https://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl///handle/item/4216 The influence of the translator’s linguistic/cultural background on cultural equivalence Al-Masri, Hanada Cultural equivalence in translation is influenced by a variety of linguistic and cultural factors. One factor to be discussed in this paper is the translator’s linguistic and cultural background and its influence on translation product. Translation theorists have conventionally claimed that translators best translate into their language of habitual use. This claim has been examined. To this effect, the translation product of translators who share the same linguistic/cultural background (Arabic) is investigated and compared: once when translators translate into their language of habitual use, and once when translating outside of their language of habitual use to see if this has any effect on cultural equivalence. In a previous publication, the author investigated two types of translators translating Arabic short stories into English: native speakers of Arabic and native speakers of English. The findings supported the claim above and showed that English translators (native speakers of English) translated into English more idiomatically than their Arab counterparts. With literary translation as a focal point, this paper takes the previous research one step further and compares translators who share the same linguistic/cultural background. The comparison is hoped to give insights into the issue of cultural equivalence. Finally, we adopt Pike’s emic-etic approach to cultural translation- the Insider and the Outsider. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl///handle/item/4215 Culture-bound terms in Arabic-English translation: difficulties and implications Bahumaid, Showqi Translation has been essentially viewed as a cross-cultural encounter in which the translator acts as an intercultural mediator. In performing this enormous task, the translator should possess, among other things, adequate skills for handling culture-bound terms. This study investigates the difficulties faced by graduate translator trainees in the American University of Sharjah and the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates in rendering Arabic culture-bound terms into English. It further examines the extent of the translator trainees' awareness of the translation strategies they employ in their renditions of those terms. A test involving a carefully selected sample of fifteen Arabic culture bound terms used in contextualized sentences was designed as a research instrument. The terms were drawn from several cultural categories and presented varying levels of difficulty of rendition. The informants were allowed to use dictionaries and search the Internet while taking the test. No time limit was set for the test. The results have revealed the informants’ rather low performance in translating Arabic culture-bound terms into English. Four major types of errors were made by the informants: incorrect meaning, under-translation, omission and transliteration errors. The errors have been mainly attributed to the informants’ lack of awareness of the significance of the translation brief while translating, inadequate proficiency in handling idiomatic culture-bound terms, insufficient training in transliteration and improper use of dictionaries. Implications of the study for translator trainers and lexicographers have been explained by the researcher. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl///handle/item/4214 Towards a standardized technical Arabic: can arabterm rise to the challenges? Zarzar, Nicole The current situation of technical terminology in the Arab world leaves much to be desired. Miscommunication is common and the lack of adequate terminology creates problems of all sorts. What is available does not correspond to the needs of the region. This paper aims to shed some light on the problems of today and of the past as well as show how the ARABTERM technical dictionary project can contribute to solving these problems simply by setting and publishing Arabic terminology for technical fields. ARABTERM is considered to be a serious effort to reanimate the language of science in Arabic and close the growing gap in standard terminology for technical fields left by dependence on foreign languages and other factors. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl///handle/item/4213 Proper names in the Arabic translation of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire" Al-Hadithy, Tara Muayad This paper examines how a set of the most common translation procedures used in transferring proper names in children’s fantasy literature is being applied in the Arabic translation of J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. The study adopts Fernandes’s classification of ten procedures to discuss the ways of rendering proper names from English to Arabic. The focus of the study is three - fold: (1) To shed light on the shortcomings of the Arabic translation when applying a translation procedure to transfer proper names. (2) To describethe effects of the adopted procedures on the textual and stylistic features of the target text as when compared to the English original. (3) To carry outanin-depth linguistic and contextual analysis to suggest solutions towards a more effective child-friendly transfer that takes into consideration the readability factor. The paper argues that the foreignization strategy adopted in this translation is so extreme and makes the translator too visible for the translation’ sown sake. Although a translator’s role is essential to the writing process and foreignization is a means to make this role visible, it should not be at the expense of the author’s intention and the ST’s meaning. The researcher calls for adoption of a more flexible yet consistent approach that effectively balances foreignization against domestication when translating proper names used in fantasy fiction into Arabic. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z