TRANSLATING SEMANTIC FEATURES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ARABIC

This study aims to investigate the treatment of semantic features at word and phraseology levels in Arabic/English translation. It demonstrates by using enough textual data that translation involves significant decision-making lexis when considering features. The corpus includes mismatches both multi-word units. translator's awareness symmetries asymmetries language pair constitutes a foundation stone his work. At level, special attention should be paid lexical referential/cultural gaps. While former represents gap blanket target language, latter constitute gaps world experience. Therefore, translators must employ different procedures handling such gaps, as cultural approximation descriptive Likewise, utmost care taken collocations idiomatic expressions. may present several problems production expressions are more challenging reception level.