Translating of ‘Thalik’ in the Glorious Quran: applying Catford’s Shift Theory
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Demonstration is a style of briefness used to refer to somebody or something through specific nouns in Arabic (SL) or pronouns in English (TL). ‘Thalik’ and its forms (with suffixes) are demonstrative nouns that occur more than 300 times in the Glorious Quran, so studying their translation is required among the studies of Quranic rendition. A.Y. Ali and T. B. Irving’s translations of the Glorious Quran are chosen to be studied concerning ‘thalik’.
The study is a descriptive quantitative one concerning ‘thalik’ and its morphological forms, ‘thalikum’,‘thalikun’,‘kathalik’, ‘kathaliki’, & ‘kathalikum’. It presents demonstrative nouns/pronouns in Arabic & English, investigates ‘thalik’ & its forms’ translations, and explains Catford’s Shift Theory of translation. Then, Shift Theory is applied on ‘thalik’& its forms’ renderings with discussion. Eight aayas (verses) are chosen to evaluate semantically ‘thalik’s rendering since Catford’s theory doesn’t have any evaluation to translation.
It is concluded that ‘thalik’ and its forms express much more meanings in Arabic than their limited equivalents in English. Depending on the sign of no-shift, it is drawn out that Irving’s translating of ‘thalik’& its forms are more acceptable than Ali’s, and the same is true in translating them semantically.
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