Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures

This paper aims at studying the differences between Arabic and Malay cultures from the perspective of translation studies. Thus, it is intended to uncover the problems of translating the culture-specific items between the two said languages. It also aims to shed some light on the related theorie...

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Main Authors:	Haji Ibrahim, Majdi, Abd. Rahman, Akmal Khuzairy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Persatuan Penterjemah Malaysia 2009
Subjects:	HT Communities. Classes. Races
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spelling	iium-83052011-12-01T03:29:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/8305/ Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures Haji Ibrahim, Majdi Abd. Rahman, Akmal Khuzairy HT Communities. Classes. Races This paper aims at studying the differences between Arabic and Malay cultures from the perspective of translation studies. Thus, it is intended to uncover the problems of translating the culture-specific items between the two said languages. It also aims to shed some light on the related theories from the realm of translation studies with regard to translating cultural differences across languages. This will be done through presenting some samples of cultural categories from both languages and semantically analyzing the words that represent them. Finally, based on the observation of the problems that might arise from translating the differences, the paper will propose some related methods of translating in order to overcome the differences while at the same time preserving the communicativeness of the text. Persatuan Penterjemah Malaysia 2009-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/8305/1/Translating_cultural_diffferences-_the_meeting_of_Arabic_and_Malay_cultures.pdf Haji Ibrahim, Majdi and Abd. Rahman, Akmal Khuzairy (2009) Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures. Jurnal Penterjemah (Journal of Malaysian Translators Association), XI (1&2). pp. 73-88. http://www.ppm-mta.com/
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description	This paper aims at studying the differences between Arabic and Malay cultures from the perspective of translation studies. Thus, it is intended to uncover the problems of translating the culture-specific items between the two said languages. It also aims to shed some light on the related theories from the realm of translation studies with regard to translating cultural differences across languages. This will be done through presenting some samples of cultural categories from both languages and semantically analyzing the words that represent them. Finally, based on the observation of the problems that might arise from translating the differences, the paper will propose some related methods of translating in order to overcome the differences while at the same time preserving the communicativeness of the text.
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author	Haji Ibrahim, Majdi Abd. Rahman, Akmal Khuzairy
author_facet	Haji Ibrahim, Majdi Abd. Rahman, Akmal Khuzairy
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title	Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures
title_short	Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures
title_full	Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures
title_fullStr	Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures
title_full_unstemmed	Translating cultural differences: the meeting of Arabic and Malay cultures
title_sort	translating cultural differences: the meeting of arabic and malay cultures
publisher	Persatuan Penterjemah Malaysia
publishDate	2009
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/8305/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/8305/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/8305/1/Translating_cultural_diffferences-_the_meeting_of_Arabic_and_Malay_cultures.pdf
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