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Title: An empirical study of problems faced by English-Arabic translation professionals: a corpus based analysis
Related: Australasian Digital Theses Program
Publisher: Australia : Macquarie University
Date: 2008
Author/Creator: Abbadi, Renad
Description: "December, 2007"
Description: Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division Linguistics and Psychology, Department of Linguistics, 2008.
Description: Bibliography: leaves 249-267.
Description: Introduction -- Literature review -- An overview of English-Arabic translation problems -- Methodology -- Results and findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendices.
Description: 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.
Description: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description: xi, 273 leaves
Subject Keyword: Translators -- Research
Subject Keyword: Arabic language -- Translating into English
Subject Keyword: English language -- Translating into Arabic
Subject Keyword: Translating and interpreting -- Research
Subject Keyword: Language and languages -- Research
Resource Type: Thesis PhD
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/103947
Identifier: 1435782
Language: eng
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