Exploitation of construal operations in evaluating poetic translated works
Keywords:
construal operations, poetic translation, Al-Zahara, cognitive semanticsAbstract
Poetic translation is one of the most debatable areas in translation and applied linguistics. It is not an easy task to translate a poetic text because of peculiarity and cultural aspects of poetry. Therefore, how one can evaluate a poetic translation is an applied linguistic area that deserves to be studied. Cognitive Grammar (CG) has provided the field of linguistics with a new perspective by relating language to all other human cognitive activities and faculties. Recently, this grammar provides literature with different tools that can be used in literary analysis. Construal operations are among these tools that can play a role in literary analysis. The basic question of this paper is: can construal operations play a role in evaluating poetic translations? To what extent Middleton and Garza-Falcón (1993) succeeded in translating Ibn Zaydún's Poem "Al-Zahara"? The fundamental aim of the current work is to employ construal operations in evaluating poetic texts and to evaluate the English translation: Ibn Zaydún's Poem "Al-Zahara". It is hypothesized that construal operations play a role in the evaluation of poetic translation. Regarding Al-Zahara, it is assumed that the translation maintained the general aspect of the original text, but it is not accurate in many places.
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