PHONOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL ASYMMETRIES IN ARABIC/ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Through illustrative examples between Arabic and English, this paper demonstrates the relevance of phonological morphological features to translation activity. Firstly, it shows how come fore in poetry translation, which revolves around capturing prosody TL sanction discourse genre. Phonological may also play a key role translating remodeling discourse, making ideological moves by translator’s employing one version proper noun rather than another. Secondly, explores Arabic/English focusing on fact that morphology is synthetic while its English counterpart analytic. This mismatch has translational bearings both inflection derivation. Translators, therefore, should pay close attention not only semantic textual features, but lower levels including prove be very relevant activity as clearly shows.