Incomprehensibility vs. acceptability-oriented approach to Arabic-English translation

Abstract EN

The research aims at exploring the role of Arabic-English narrative texts on translators.

The study examines two Arabic narrative texts translated by three instructors at the Department of Translation, College of Arts, University of Tikreet.

It is hypothesized that unacceptability in rendering the Arabic narrative texts is attributed to the communicative incompetence rather than the linguistic one.

The study concludes that adaptation is the most appropriate procedure for rendering such texts into English since the former is abundant with verbosity.

The translator, through this procedure, manages the texts to reach his audience as far as possible.