Jordanian Arabic euphemizers in English translation

IF 0.5 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Bakri H. Al-Azzam, Aladdin Al-Kharabsheh, Majed Al-Quran
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Abstract

This study investigates a special category of euphemism, i.e., euphemizers (Farghal 2012). It makes a key distinction between euphemism which is normally engineered to mitigate the impact of a certain specific expression in a structure through substituting it by a milder one, and euphemizer which is seen as a scene-setter for and an impact-softener of the entire topic or discourse in any given communicative situation. As far as the Politeness Principle (Leech 1983) and the Cooperative Principle (Grice 1975) are concerned, the study shows that euphemizers in Jordanian Arabic have been found to be exploited to generate particularized rather than generalized conversational implicatures or floutings as to achieve certain communicative politeness-related purposes, such as softening the overarching negative force of the entire discourse, soothing the fury of interactants, showing respect, high-esteem, friendliness, warmth, and hospitability. These purposes emerge as the raison d’être behind such a pervasive “socio-discoursal deodorization.” Analysis also shows that the pragmatic translation proved to be an appropriate, but to a large extent, a dominant strategy that has aptly been opted for in dealing with many cases that match with English, whereas the deletion or zero-translation strategy, to a lesser extent, has been applied to unmatchful ones.
英语翻译中的约旦阿拉伯语委婉语
本研究调查了一类特殊的委婉语,即委婉语(Farghal 2012)。它区分了委婉语和委婉语之间的关键区别。委婉语通常是为了减轻结构中某个特定表达的影响,通过用一个更温和的表达代替它,而委婉语则被视为在任何给定的交际情境中,整个话题或话语的场景设置和影响缓和剂。就礼貌原则(Leech 1983)和合作原则(Grice 1975)而言,研究表明约旦阿拉伯语中的委婉语被用来产生特定的而不是一般的会话含义或嘲弄,以达到某些与交际礼貌相关的目的,例如软化整个话语的总体负面力量,安抚互动者的愤怒,表示尊重,高度尊重,友好、热情和好客。这些目的成为这种普遍存在的“社会话语除臭”背后être的原因。分析还表明,在许多与英语匹配的情况下,语用翻译在很大程度上是一种适当的优势策略,而在不匹配的情况下,则较少采用删除或零翻译策略。
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