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- Title
On the Translation of Modals from English into Arabic and Vice Versa: The Case of Deontic Modality.
- Authors
Abdel-Fattah, Mahmoud M.
- Abstract
This article is an attempt to highlight some of the problems encountered, particularly when translating deontic modal expressions from English into Modern Standard Arabic and vice versa. A brief description of deontic modality in both English and Arabic is provided. Further, the study recommends strategies and approaches that might facilitate the task of the translator when rendering deontic modal expressions from and into both languages. Translating modalized expressions from English into Arabic and vice versa imposes a special difficulty on the translator for many reasons. Apart from the general problematics of the subject, the fact that Arabic does not have a defined modal system.
- Subjects
ARABIC language -- Translating; TRANSLATING of English language; MODALITY (Linguistics); DEONTIC logic; TRANSLATORS
- Publication
Babel: International Journal of Translation / Revue Internationale de la Traduction / Revista Internacional de Traducción, 2005, Vol 51, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0521-9744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/babel.51.1.03abd