Translating the Symbolic Hunting Series in Golding’s Lord Of The Flies from English into Arabic: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective

摘要

This study comes as a response to the need for comparative assessment and evaluation studies of stylistic differencesudbetween English and Arabic in the field of literary translation in the Arab World. The main objective of thisudexplanatory, analytical and comparative study was to investigate the translation of symbolism in William Golding’sudLord Of The Flies (LOTF). The rich cultural connotations behind the employment of symbols in literary worksudconstitute a great challenge to the literary translator. There is a need to ascertain the appropriateness of the translatedudsymbols in the Arabic versions of LOTF. Two Arabic translations, Darweesh and Qaseh (2004) and Hamid (2002), areudcompared in terms of conveying the original symbolic style of the hunting series in LOTF. This study attempts toudprovide a relevance-theoretic account for the translation of symbols between English and Arabic. Relevance Theoryud(RT), as a communication theory which builds on a pragmatics, provides a way out of the traditional emphasis on theudconcept of the translation equivalence. It concentrates on the contextual environment of both the source language (SL)udand the target language (TL) in achieving successful communication.