ترجمة المصطلح البلاغي الغربي إلى اللغة العربية

الملخص EN

The present paper aims at shedding light on the main factors that lead translators to adopt exegetic translation and adaptation when translating modern rhetoric terminology into Arabic instead of referring to more reliable strategies in Arabic such as derivation, metaphors, etymology… Hence, the paper analyzes the Arabic Translation of François Moreau “Literary Image: Position of the Problem”, done by Mohamed El Wali and Aicha Djarir.

The translators rely on exegetic translation (explicitation) and adaptation to transmit the signification of foreign rhetoric terms.

Nevertheless, the problem that rises from the use of these strategies is the “unnaturalness” of Arabic terms.

For the sake of the study, the paper, first, sketches out the main theoretical issues: terminology, terms generation in Arabic, terminology and translation studies, terminological ladder, features of rhetoric terminology; and then, it explores the Arabic translation of François Moreau