Addition As A Translation Adjustment Technique In The Selected English Translations Of Implicit Direct Object Ellipsis In The Holy Qur’ān
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Date
2015-07
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SHARIFABAD, EBRAHIM DAVOUDI
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The Holy Qur’ān is one of the most fascinating and widely-read religious and divine
books. Belonging to Islamic and Arabic cultures, some concepts and meanings of
the Qur’ān might not be so transparent to the speakers of other languages, as they
are ellipted. As a frequent type of nominal ellipsis used in the Qur’ān, studying
instances of implicit direct object ellipsis (IDOEs) with respect to their translation
procedures have been the objective of this research. The study aims at studying
IDOEs and their relevant translation procedures. The questions as to how such
IDOEs are translated in the selected English translations of the Qur’ān and what
addition adjustment techniques are applied to these translations are also raised. The
research rests on the linguistic theory of ellipsis proposed by Halliday and Hassan
(1976) and McShane (2005) since ellipsis plays a key role in English and Arabic to
establish cohesion in the text. However, in the Qur’ānic Arabic, due to the
conciseness of the Holy Qur’ān text and the language of revelation, identifying and
explicating ellipted items by translators would help the readers understand the
meanings more clearly. The translation models applied to the present study are
addition as translation adjustment technique by Nida (1964) and translation devices
model by Abdul-Raof (2001). Nord's (2005) model is also applied to the corpora of
the study to give a general image of the source text and target texts and to
investigate ellipsis based on such a translation-oriented model. Although the design
of research is primarily descriptive, it gains advantage of both qualitative and
quantitative research. Accordingly, the descriptive translation studies (DTS) model
from the framework within which 54 samples were textually and translationally
analyzed qualitatively (textual analysis) and quantitatively (frequency of adopted
addition procedures). Based on the translation-oriented text analysis findings
(application of Nord's model), ellipsis is investigated according to intratextual
factors of text analysis, content, sentence structure, and suprasegmental features. It is
found that these factors are needed to be taken into account in translating ellipsis.
The findings of the IDOE analysis show that none of the selected translators used
any translation addition procedures more frequently. Other addition procedures are
manifested through bracket, parenthesis, footnote, and/or marginal note, main text
insertion which are placed after no addition procedure use.
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Addition As A Translation Adjustment Technique In The Selected English Translations , Of Implicit Direct Object Ellipsis In The Holy Qur’ān