Paramouncy of Context in Translating Arabic Proverbials into English
Ekrema Shehab
Broschiertes Buch

Paramouncy of Context in Translating Arabic Proverbials into English

Proverbs are elastic in that any difference in the application of a proverb in context signals a difference in meaning

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Translators of Arabic proverbs into English frequently seek to find incontextualized English proverbs as equivalents to contextualized Arabic proverbs. Rarely can we find translators who give any consideration to the proverb's social and pragmatic context. Translators simply rush to find an existing unsituated proverb in the TL as an equivalent to a situated proverb in the SL and hence they produce awkward and irrelevant renderings. This book, therefore, endeavors to demonstrate the paramouncy of context in translating Arabic proverbials into English. Apparently, in the translation of Arabic p...