Tenor of Quranic Rhetorical Questions: with reference to two English Translations

The Impact of Grammatical Shifts on the Quranic Rhetorical Questions Translated into English: A Comparative Study

This comparative study aimed at finding out the types of grammatical shifts which have occurred in two English translations of the Quranic rhetorical questions, and the impact of such shifts on the said rhetorical questions. For these purposes, the study firstly analyzed the Arabic and English texts syntactically using the x-bar theory for Haegeman (2006) and then classified the grammatical shi...

Translation of Power and Solidarity Pronouns in Qur’anic Rhetoric

  Translation of the Holy Quran can be difficult for translators in terms of accuracy and translatability. Sometimes translators fail to render the Quranic thoughts because of the lack of language features in target languages. This results in an unfavorable interpretation. One of the challenging aspects of translating Quran is reference switching as rhetorical devices, which are widespread i...

Intentions, Information, And Inference: Two Rhetorical Questions

Evaluating English translations of ancient Chinese poetry with special reference to image schemas and foregrounding

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The Importance of Downtoners in English Writing and Translation -with Reference to Chinese Movie Subtitle Translations

This paper reports on a study of the use of downtoners, an important hedging device, by Chinese translators when translating Chinese subtitles into English. The study was carried out by making a corpus-based analysis of patterns of using downtoners in a Chinese subtitle corpus and an English subtitle corpus. Features of overuse and underuse of downtoners in subtitle translation by the Chinese t...