Syntactic Translation Strategies for Retaining Parallelism in the Arabic Translation of Moby Dick

Abstract

The present study examines strategies for translating parallelism and factors in retaining parallelism in the Arabic translation of the novel of “Moby Dick”. Analysis is conducted on two sets of data taken from the English novel “Moby Dick” written by Melville in 1851 and its Arabic translation ‘Mūbī Dīk’ by ʻAbbās (1980). This qualitative research is guided by Chesterman’s (1997) syntactic strategy model, and contrastive analysis (CA) is also performed. The contrastive analysis is carried out using a coding procedure based on themes and taxonomies in the acquired data constructed by the researchers. The result shows that, based on Chesterman’s (1997) model, the translator of the above-mentioned novel employed three strategies, namely, literal translation, clause structure change and transposition to maintain parallelism in the Arabic translation of the English novel.

Arabization or Domestication? Case Study of Information Structure Shift in Aphorisms

“…Studies related to translation techniques and methods that specifically use Arabic data have been previously conducted by Anis (2018) Farisi (2018), Baharudin (2017), and Ikbal et al (2016). These studies used a translation technique analysis focused on poetry, Arabic-Malay idioms, the Qur'an, hagiography, Arabic prose in the form of novels, and translation of the Arabic-Javanese yellow book.…”