Paremiology of Palestinian Month-Related Proverbs: Inimitability and Translatability
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2021-08-31
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Thawabteh, Mohammad Ahmad
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Abstract
Proverbs are deemed to be the products or by-products of the culture, a predominant type of
which is, what we may term, Month-Related Proverbs (MRPs). The present article examines sociolinguistic
(MRPs) utilised by the doyen(ne) of Palestinians, consisting of a corpus of thirty MRPs which are drawn
from ṣaḥīfat al-Quds (Al-Quds Daily Newspaper), Dictionary of Palestinian Proverbs (1999) by Lubani
and A Dictionary of Modern Lebanese Proverbs, with conflated Arabic proverbs with English translation
by Freyha (1995). The article shows the functions of MRPs are mainly (1) to take great pride in their
cultural heritage that seemed to have passed from one generation to the next; (2) to recapitulate various
aspects of peasant life— memories of a bygone age; (3) to warn against unfavourable weather conditions
over a year. The article examines the translations in view of Nord’s (1991 and 1997) documentary
translation and instrumental translation. The findings of the article show that documentary translation
seems to be considered the most appropriate translation method opted for to inculcate the values of
Palestinian culture in Target Language (TL) audience.
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Paremiology , Palestinian month-related proverbs , Inimitability and translatability , documentary , instrumental , domesticating , foreignising , ecology , Palestinian Arabic
Citation
Thawabteh, M-A. (2021). Paremiology of Palestinian month-related proverbs: Inimitability and translatability. Revue Traduction et Langues 20 (1), 9-25.