Klingberg’s Adaptation Procedures Used while Translating English Short Stories into Arabic by Undergraduate Students of UST, Taiz, Yemen

Ahmed Taher Abdu Nagi; Abdulrahman Ahmed Mohammed No’man; Ahmad Mohmmad Bsharat; Nada Nabil Haza’a Al Salahi

doi:10.55074/hesj.vi46.1416

المؤلفون

Ahmed Taher Abdu Nagi Associate Professor of English Literature, College of Education, Taiz University. Associate Professor of English Literature, College of Humanities Al Janad University, Taiz
Abdulrahman Ahmed Mohammed No’man Assistant Professor of English Literature Ibb University. Head of English Department University of Science and Technology, Taiz
Ahmad Mohmmad Bsharat Associate Professor of Arabic Linguistics Alwasl University Dubai, UAE
Nada Nabil Haza’a Al Salahi University of Science and Technology, Taiz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55074/hesj.vi46.1416

الكلمات المفتاحية:

Translation، Adaptation procedures، Klingberg، Short stories، Undergraduate Students، UST

الملخص

This study aims at identifying the use of Klingberg’s adaptation by undergraduate students of UST, Taiz, Yemen. Besides, it explores the problems encountered by undergraduate students of UST and presents solutions for these problems. This study has used the analytical approach. The tool for collecting the data is a test of eight sentences selected from three English short stories: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (1843), The Killers and Today is Friday by Ernest Hemingway (1977). The sample of the study consists of twenty participants of level four at UST. The study concludes that student translators succeeded in using Klingberg’s adaptation procedures with variant percentages. The mostly used procedure by UST student translators is ‘substitution of rough equivalence in the culture of TL’. The less commonly used procedures used by the UST undergraduate translators are ‘explanatory, deletion and addition’. The study also concludes that Klingberg’s procedures help translators overcome the difficulty of translating culture in the genre of short stories, not only in translating children’s literature as proposed by Klingberg. The study has found that literal translation is mostly a mistake committed by the sample of the study. This study introduced some solutions for the problems encountered by the undergraduate student translators at the UST, Taiz, Yemen.

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