Explicitation techniques in Arabic-English translation

Abstract EN

This paper is an investigation of the explicitation techniques employed by the translators of Afrah al-Qubbah, and Qasr el-Shawq, two novels by the Nobel Laureate, Naguib Mahfouz (1981; 1984)(lJ.

The ultimate objective of the paper, however, does not lie within the domain of translation criticism; rather, it is an attempt to put in one study the several explicitation techniques suggested by a number of scholars researching into the remit of Corpus-Based Translation Studies and Translation Universals (TU) - both lying within the wider field of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS).

The manual investigation of the corpus of this study resulted in citing examples of several explicitation techniques; namely, explanation of cultural material, additions and insertions, substitutions, spelling out of implicatures, and resolving ambiguities.