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تحولات الترجمة في رواية بنات الرياض لرجاء الصانع من منظور علم اللغة النصي == Translation Shifts in Rajaa Alsanea’s Novel Girls of Riyadh : A Text Linguistic Perspective
Author name:
عمار فؤاد مشاري
Supervisor name:
رمضان مهلهل سدخان
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Translation
Degree:
Master
University:
University Of Basrah - College Of Literature - Translation Department
Language:
English
University location:
Basrah
First pages:
06T1082 - p.pdf
Abstract:
According to the prerequisites of text linguistics, the text must meet seven standards of textuality in order to be a text. These seven standards are cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality. During translation, these standards are expected to undergo certain shifts. Thus, this thesis attempts to study the shifts in situationality, one of the seven standards of textuality suggested by Beaugrande and Dressler (1981), in the English translation of Rajaa Alsaneas novel Girls of Riyadh. The aim is to find out the reasons behind these shifts, their effects on the target text, and how the translators have dealt with them. Views of different scholars about translation shifts are discussed. Concomitantly, the notion of text linguistics, especially the seven standards of textuality, aforementioned above, is touched upon during this study. In the practical part, the Arabic and English versions of Rajaa Alsaneas novel Girls of Riyadh (Banat el Riyadh) are juxtaposed and then analyzed according to the model suggested by Kinga Klaudy (2003) in order to see what kinds of shifts the target text has undergone. Having finished the analysis of the data, many shifts have been discovered, most of them have occurred to make the target text look natural and understandable for target language readers, i.e. shifts that deem necessary for the translators to make
