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Information Structure and The Translation of Arabic Coordination and Subordination into English | ||
| Al-Ma'mon College Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 16, 2018, Pages 356-369 | ||
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| Talib Jawad Hassan Al-Khafaji | ||
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| The paper attempts at explaining how information structure is an important textual variable since information may be foregrounded or background, i.e., as more or less important for the text development . Pertinent to this , are the notions theme and rheme , which deal with the organization of phrases and sentences into elements of greater or less degrees of predictability . Regarding the translation of Arabic subordination into English , the paper hypothesizes that information distribution is usually retained in the target text except when the Arabic subordinate clause in narrative fiction carries foregrounded information. This would call for reversing the subordinate structure of the source text . It is also hypothesized that Arabic coordinative structures should be converted into English subordinate structures , a strategy that is mostly stylistically motivated since Arabic is a coordinating language while English is subordinating language . | ||
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