A Pragmatic Approach to Translating The Arabic Anomalous Texts With Ellipted Negator Into English
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https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.15.55.4.22Keywords:
Anomalous, Negator, Pragmatic, Rendering, EllipsisAbstract
It is indeed hard to render the anomalous texts which imply an ellipted negator from Arabic into English. The main task of the text recipient, i.e. especially the translator, here, is to set all his/her energy to detect such negator to work out the communicative (pragmatic) meaning. Then, s/he will be able to render the text pragmatically. Actually, the pragmatic anomaly usually takes place due to the violation of one or more of the Gricean maxims. The present paper hypothesizes that the maxim of relation is the one which is very often violated. When the negator is deleted, the text becomes anomalous since cohesion cannot be attained. The paper aims at finding effective solutions for such anomalies in Arabic texts to distinguish between what may or may not be anomalous in the same text. The present paper also verifies that the violation of any maxim could result in pragmatic anomaly. Thus, these slippery areas of anomalies should be grasped properly to produce appropriate renderings. So, the ellipsis of any lexical item in the text can distort the intended message considerably and it becomes even more complicated if the ellipted word is the negator ( .(
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