Translation

By Tawffeek Abdou Saeed Mohammed Al-Kanani & Mustapha Saidi.
This study deals with the problems that encounter translators while translating Islamic literature from Arabic into English. We have selected a novel written by Najīb Al-Kaylānī, who is by far one of the pioneers of Islamic literature. The study argues that translation equivalence is a matter of approximation rather than equation. In his/her endeavor to find out exact equivalence in the target language, a translator of Islamic literature in general and Al-Kaylānī in particular will encounter various problems at various levels. Based on Koller's (1979) classification of translation equivalence , the study investigates the problematization of the concept of equivalence at the denotative, connotative, text-normative, pragmatic and formal levels.
(published in trans-kom 10 [1] (2017): 101-126, Seite 101)

The third volume of Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies encompasses a wide range of subjects related to Romanian literature, theatre, film, translation studies, and culture. Academics from famed universities situated in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, and Romania, treat a variety of issues in English, Romanian, French and Spanish. In consequence, the collection of papers provided by this volume includes fourteen articles, a translation and two book reviews.

Translation Studies was established from the beginning in dialogue with adjacent fields such as Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Linguistics and it has always been conceived as an open scientific field in which the openness of the concept of translation itself is taken for granted (Tymozcko 1998, 2006). The increasing number of disciplines with which translation studies interrelate, apart from literary and linguistic ones (Political Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, Semiotics, Film studies, Neurosciences, Computational Linguistics etc.), has led to the contribution of concepts and taxonomies to the field by different scholars. These concepts are gradually entering its research nucleus as shown in the relevant international literature (Snell-Hornby, Pöchhacker & Kaindl 1994; Wills 1999; Chesterman 2002; Floros 2005; Gambier 2006; Lambert 2012; Gentzler 2014; Abend-David  2014; Ehrensberger-Dow, Göpferich & O’Brien 2015; Gambier & van Doorslaer  2016; Rojo López & Campos Plaza 2016). Following the trends in interdisciplinary academic research (Klein 1990 and 1996; Hübenthal 1994; Salter & Hearn 1996; Boden 1999; Bal 2002), Translation Studies move in-between interdisciplinarity, which derives from concept and tool borrowing and an arborescent perception of knowledge (Blumczynski 2016), and transdisciplinarity, a form of  interdisciplinary synergy which views knowledge in a rhizomatic way (Blumczynski 2016). In this sense, transdisciplinarity is realized when two or more fields of knowledge mutually open up to each other broadening their research perspective (Gambier & van Doorslaer 2016; Yasici 2016; Odacıoğlu 2015). Such perceptions tend to bring about major changes even to the perception of Translation Studies as an interdisciplinary field and to such a degree that reference is now being made to a post-discipline (Gentzler, 2014) and to post-Translation Studies: “We imagine a sort of new era that could be termed post-translation studies, where translation is viewed as fundamentally transdisciplinary, mobile, and open ended” (Nergaard and Arduini 2011).