Meaning Loss in Translating News Headlines from Arabic into English with reference to Al hayat International Journal
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47372/dr20vx83الملخص
This paper is aimed at analyzing the translation of newspaper headlines from Arabic into English. The paper highlights the semantic,
cultural, and linguistic problems that a translator may encounter while translating news headlines. The corpus of the study consists of a set of headlines of news articles collected from the online Arabic and English editions of Al hayat newspaper. From the analysis, the researcher found out that there is some kind of meaning loss when translating Arabic news headlines into English. This meaning loss was found to be due to the semantic, cultural, and linguistic differences between Arabic and English. The paper is a modest contribution in the sense that it tackles these differences, and it ends up with some recommendations to improve the quality of translation in the field of media in general and in the field of news translation in particular.
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