The aim of this thesis is to empirically examine translation problems encountered by English-Arabic translators. It sets out a practical approach to investigating real life translations. As the title suggests the study was based on the analysis of a translation corpus consisting of one hundred translations of source texts produced by professional translators for the purpose of this study. The analysis of errors indicative of translation problems at the lexical, grammatical and textual level was carried out. This thesis utilized additional procedures to analyze the errors present in the corpus, i.e. rater and target readership assessments. The underlying problems were then interpreted in the light of the inherent difficult nature of some categories as outlined by available literature and translators' competence.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Literature review -- An overview of English-Arabic translation problems -- Methodology -- Results and findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendices.Notes
December, 2007
Bibliography: leaves 249-267Awarding Institution
Macquarie UniversityDegree Type
Thesis PhDDegree
Thesis (PhD), Macquarie University, Division Linguistics and Psychology, Department of LinguisticsDepartment, Centre or School
Department of LinguisticsYear of Award
2008Principal Supervisor
Edmund A. RonowiczRights
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xi, 273 leavesFormer Identifiers
mq:10977
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/103947
1435782
