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Some Problems of Translating English Medical Discourse into Arabic | ||
| Buhuth Mustaqbaliya Scientific Periodical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 7-22 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M.AL-Haj Qasim; Dr. Misbah M.D.AL-Sulaimaan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Medical discourse is a very complicated variety of language. It is usually full of risks and difficulties. A translator is required to exert a great effort to overcome these difficulties and produce an appropriate translation. The present study investigates the semantic, syntactic and lexical aspects of this variety in English and shows how these aspects are realized in Arabic. The study aims at: (1) exploring the main problems that may arise from translating medical discourse, (2) suggesting some remedies for solving them, and (3) proposing new renderings for the texts under discussion if the available translations are unsatisfactory. To achieve these aims, it is hypothesized that the semantic translation of medical discourse is more appropriate than the communicative one. Besides, the translator of medical discourse is not required to have a good linguistic knowledge of both the source and target languages only, rather he must have a medical background as well. Therefore, it is believed here that the best person who fits to be a translator of medical discourse is a person who has a medical competence as well as linguistic competence. To test the validity of these hypotheses, two medical discourses have been selected from a medical book entitled Cancer Pain Relief, which was translated by (the World Health Organization) in 1986. The main findings arrived at are as follows: 1- There are semantic, syntactic and lexical differences between English and Arabic medical discourse. 2- The greatest differences are the syntactic ones (47.2 %). Lexical differences occupy the second place (37.7 %), and semantic differences occupy the third place (15.1 %). 3- These differences resulted in some difficulties through the process of translation which in turn resulted in some shortcomings in the TL texts (see T1, T2). | ||
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