An Analysis of Implicitation Discourse in the Translation of the Functions of Discourse Marker wa in the Kurdish Corpus of the Holy Quran
A Pragmatic Approach
Abstract
Translation comprises the comprehension, construction, and monitoring of discourse based on the creative and professional use of discourse markers in the construction of discourse, and the translators’ major challenge is complying with pragmatic principles of the target discourse (Chesterman, 2016; Mohammadi & Hemmati, 2023). The implicitation and indirect reflection of the functions of the most frequent, effective, and ambiguous Quranic discourse marker wa is a complex, critical, and discourse-construction process. The corpus of this descriptive and exploratory study consisted of six randomly selected sections of the Holy Quran and the translation of these sections into the Sorani branch of the Kurdish language. To analyze different aspects of the application of implicitation strategy in translation of the Quran into Sorani Kurdish, the researchers applied pragmatics theory, translation spotting theory (Zufferey, 2016), and a model for the analysis of implicitation (Klaudy & Karoly, 2005). The results revealed that the Kurdish translator (Ebrahimi, 1997) appealed to implicitation in nearly 2/3 of the cases (63%). It then led to a triangular model of syntactic, lexical, and cultural-pragmatic strategies, which developed researchers' perceptions of translation universals. Future research could study and compare the translation of the Quranic DM wa into other languages.
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