Author(s):
1. Adnan Mjali Mbaideen:
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University Kebangsaan Malaysia
2. Ashinida Binti Aladdin:
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
3. Imran Ho-Abdullah:
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
4. Mohammad Khawaldah:
Faculty of Arts, Mutah University, Jordan
Abstract:
This work investigates the translation of Acoustic Prepositional Deletion (APD) in Quranic constructions in the Quranic Arabic Corpus (QAC) to determine how APD is treated and whether there might be meaning retention/distortion resulting from the new spatial relationships profiled. The study applies an analytical critical constructional grammar approach to the analysis and discussion of the data available to examine construction and language specificity. It is found that the inappropriate conception of the APD constructions has resulted in partially or totally different spatial relationships profiled between the entities of a particular construction when being translated. In addition, disloyalty to the spatial scene with reference to APD is mainly attributed to the translators' unawareness of the difference between two constructions that only differ in the (non) existence of a preposition. Moreover, a conceptual translation of APD appears to be the best that can maintain existing spatial relationships, and thus an identical conception of the source text (ST) in the target text (TT). In conclusion, meaning with reference to APD is not only constructionspecific but also language-specific.
Page(s):
227-236
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Science International, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Year: 2020
Keywords:
Acoustic Deletion
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Translation
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Spatial Relationships
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Prepositions
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Construction Grammar
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