Translating Le Monde and El País English Business Loan Terms into Arabic: A Corpus-based Analysis

Abstract

Abstract-A major trend in corpus linguistics has been the use of highly specialized corpora to achieve several different purposes, including teaching technical writing, language learning, and teaching translation techniques. This study aims to design and use corpora in order to aid translators master the translation of English business terms used routinely in Le Monde and El Paí s into Arabic. The Le Monde corpus included 456,122 words, while the El Paí s corpus included 874,687. Corpora satisfied several rigorous criteria such as authorship, topic, genre and register. Since translators need a variety of reference sources in order to come up with quality translations, concordance, collocation, and word cluster analyses were performed to reveal how different language patterns are used in their usual contexts. We found that corpora might help translators in navigating across various possibilities of terminologies and expressions, which have to be first decoded prior to being re-coded into the target language. Corpora examples also make the target text more successful in crosscultural communication contexts.

Normalization Techniques For Translating Cultural - Specific Expressions

“…Meanwhile, normalization, proposed by Mona Baker (1996) as the way of translation conforming to the practices of TL, was elucidated by many scholars such as Kateř ina Olexová (2009), Yun Xia (2014) and Mohamed M. Mostafa (2015) that the main aim of normalization in translation is to orient ST towards patterns, norms or textual conventionality of TL, by minimizing manifestation of SL expressions in ST, for target readers' readability and familiarity. From the above paragraphs, it can be seen that normalization and domestication share the same purpose and the same way and techniques of translation.…”