Motivated by the severe criticism the Hilali and Khan (HK) Translation of the Holy Quran has received for its too many parenthetical insertions, this study aimed at linguistically realizing how such added pieces of information could be for necessary cohesive explicitness or worthless redundant interpolation. Methodically, the HK translation of the first 8 verses of Chapter 18 (The Cave, Surah Al Kahf) of the Holy Quran was selected to be a subject material. A number of 15 instances of explicitation put in parentheses were encountered; they were found to be based upon 23 cohesive (grammatical/lexical) relationships and, hence, to be considered as ones of cohesive explicitness. Eventually, such an analysis could be of use for modifying the available translations of the Holy Quran.

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Journal: International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2015, 4(5)

This paper aimed at justifying the lexical departure from formal correspondence by means of omission, addition or substitution in translation from English into Arabic. A classification of four linguistic (semantic or pragmatic) relationships was developed; such relationships were considered as grounds of justification of lexical departure from formal correspondence in translation. This classification was applied to the Arabic translations of a number of extracts taken out of sociopolitical speeches delivered by Martin Luther King. The acts of lexical omission, addition and substitution were found to be translational strategies based upon the referential, collocative, connotative or situational relationships between the SL/TL omitted, added or substituted lexical units of language and the SL/TL context.

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Journal: International Journal of Linguistics, 2014, 6(6)