Barriers of Intercultural Communication in Transferring Culturally-Bound Utterances and Expressions of the Qur'an from Arabic into English: Implications and Strategy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abuisaac, Shehda; Albasha, Jamal; Ghaith, Majdi; Bin Sapar, Ahmadb
• Is Part Of: Journal of intercultural communication research. Volume 52:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Qur'an -- culturally-bound utterances and expressions -- intercultural communication -- translation; Intercultural communication -- Periodicals; 303.482
• DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2137559
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1747-5759

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the translational transference of culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the Qur'anic discourse into English. The study adopts a qualitative research method and content text analysis to analyse how culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the source language text were translated into English by two well-known translators. The study argues that lexicosemantic realization and analysis of the culturally-bound utterances and expressions of Arabic is a mandatory pre-condition to accurately transfer them into English. The studyproposes Lexicosemantic Decipherability Strategy that may assist translators to accurately select the target language lexicosemantic items of different genres.