Hedging devices in translation of Ghassan Kanafani’s novel “RIJÓLUN FÔ ASHSHAMSI”
Keywords:
hedge, literary translation, English, Arabic, Cross-cultureAbstract
This study is essentially projected to explore the process of translating hedges
existed in Arabic language novel of Gassan Kanafni’s (1962) "الشمس في رجال"
“Rijolun fo Ash-shamsi” into English language in “Men in the Sun” of Hilary
Klipatrick (1978). It investigates how the hedges forms and types are affected by
many factors especially the cross-cultural and linguistic system factors after the
translation process and it may convey more commitment or less according to the
language culture and system. The collected data includes the whole novel which
consist of seven chapters in both versions. In this research, there were two main
objectives have been proposed. The first objective is to find out how the degree
commitment as a major hedging marker in this Arabic novel is affected by the
English translation. The second objective aims to structure the first Arabic
hedging taxonomy. Hyland’s typology (1998) is used in order to collect the data
from both versions. The researchers collect the hedges forms from English first
then, they translated all these forms into Arabic language and after that they
stared to look for hedges forms according to English taxonomy of Hyland’s
typology (1998). The findings of the study show that: firstly, the culture has
affected the degree of commitment and the range numbers of hedges. There are
more hedges in English novel than Arabic one. The cross-cultural factors have
affected the hedges forms after the translation because the English readers or
audience could not understand the degree of commitment. Arab culture is using
hedges, but they still have a high degree of responsibility or commitment of their
words. Finally, this study proposed the first taxonomy or classification in Arabic
language by the researcher Ibrahim Alsemeiri with the assistant of Professor
Fawzi Abufayyad of Islamic university in Gaza, which tackles with hedges forms
and it is considered as contribution from this study.
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