Translating dysphemistic expressions in othello

Abstract EN

This paper deals with a linguistic and semantic analysis of the rhetorical figure of dysphemism.

Little has been written about this subject, but it is very important and expresses a linguistic phenomenon still little dealt with.

This paper tackles how dysphemism is used in language, and the areas in which it could be found.

Literature is the most prominent area abundant with this phenomenon.

The paper is divided into six different sections, three different renderings of Shakespeare's " Othello " are adopted, Jabra, Mutran and Al-khumairy to see how the translators render dysphemistic expressions from the SL to the TL.