Lingua-aesthetic features of the translation of Aslan's Nile sparrows : a cognitive stylistics approach

الملخص EN

Literary works present a full prism of potential dimensions that need to be taken into heed in the nexuses of translation.

the present paper seeks to employ a lingua-cognitive, stylistic approach to analyze Aslan’s novel Aṣafir al-Nil (2005) and its English translation by el-Ghobashy Nile sparrows (2008) using leech and short (2007) lingua-stylistic approach in the light of Boase-Beier’s (2004, 2014) cognitive stylistics approach.

Ghazala’s (2008) proposed translation methods are applied to the analysis of the translational choices.

Aslan’s source text (ST) exhibits aesthetic, artistic shades displayed in the simple, prolific opus of lexical, rhetorical and grammatical canvas.

el-Ghobashy's target text (TT) proves to convey a rather similar literary ingenuity, by employing various translation methods that reflect the lingua-stylistics nuances of Aslan's cognitive, stylistic milieu.

with very few exceptions, el-Ghobashy succeeds in retaining the ST lexical ingenuity, its cultural aspects, its idiomatic expressions, metaphors and figures of speech.

she also succeeds in modulating the grammatical stylistic structure of the ST to conform to the target language.

she also retains the cohesive and contextual devices in the ST to be consistently reflected in the TT.

all such translational choices help recreate the ST aesthetic elegance, delineate its locale and retain its cognitive reality by either keeping Aslan's lingua-stylistic features in some instances or manipulating them in others.

this, to a great extent, allows the TT to have an ingenious impact on the target reader (TR) close to the one the ST has on the source reader (SR).