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Strategies for Translating Idioms and Proverbs from English into Arabic

open access: yesBritish Journal of Translation Linguistics and Literature, 2023
Translation is essential for promoting understanding of different genres and in different languages. As more and more information is published globally, the need for translating a wide range of document types has emerged, including books and movies, that
Tounssi Mounadil
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ePiC: Employing Proverbs in Context as a Benchmark for Abstract Language Understanding [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
While large language models have shown exciting progress on several NLP benchmarks, evaluating their ability for complex analogical reasoning remains under-explored.
Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava
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An Investigation into Factors Influencing Construction Costs Based on Japanese, UK and US Contractor Practice

open access: yesConstruction Economics and Building, 2012
Construction cost is a major concern to both clients and contractors. Based on a hypotheticalconstruction project (a six-storey concrete framed office building), cost and otherrelated information was collected through a survey of contractors in Japan ...
Hong Xiao, David Proverbs
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A cross-cultural linguistic analysis of the gendered representations of “Wife” in Egyptian Arabic and American English Proverbs

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
This study investigates how language, gender, and culture are intertwined in two purpose-built corpora of Egyptian Arabic and American English proverbs. It discusses the ideological representations of the potentially gendered term “wife” in such proverbs,
Waheed M. A. Altohami
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Biblical Phraseological Units and Proverbs in Modern Sociocultural Context: Dictionary Representation

open access: yesNauchnyi Dialog, 2023
The article explores issues related to the lexicographic development of biblical proverbs and phraseological units, which are typically represented in dictionaries solely in their canonical form, without taking into account the peculiarities of their ...
V. Mokienko, T. Nikitina
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CONCEPTUALIZATION OF MONEY IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN PROVERBS

open access: yesProverbium, 2023
The present article is an attempt to investigate the metaphorical dimension in English and Russian money proverbs. A sample of English and Russian proverbs have been selected from various sources such as dictionaries, previous research, and the internet.
Polina Oleneva
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How the Saudi EFL Students at Undergraduate Level Translate English Proverbs into Arabic: Problems, Strategies and Solutions

open access: yesArab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies, 2023
This study aims to explore some obstacles that Saudi translation department students encounter when translating proverbs from Arabic into English and the types of strategies they employ when translating. To achieve the goals of this study, the researcher
Sultan Samah A. Almjlad
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Verbal Rhetoric Skills in Bahmayari’s Storybooks and Mazandaran’s Proverbs [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2019
The subject of this article is Verbal Rhetoric Skills in Bahmayari’s Storybooks and Mazandaran’s Proverbs. Proverbs is one of the branches of folk literature.
Ali Razzaghi Shani   +3 more
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Preserving Meaning and Context: A Study of Cultural Adaptation in the Translation of Arabic Proverbs

open access: yesAlsinatuna, 2023
This research delves into the intricate dynamics of translating proverbs, aiming to ensure that the essence of the source language is accurately conveyed in the target language. Translating proverbs presents unique challenges due to the inherent cultural
Subhan Subhan   +3 more
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LINGUISTIC IMAGE OF THE WOMAN IN KASHUBIAN, ENGLISH AND POLISH PROVERBS

open access: yesOrbis linguarum, 2023
The aim of the article is to show the linguistic and cultural image of a woman on the basis of paremiological material preserved in Kashubian, English and Polish. According to Jędrzejko (1994, p.
A. Stachurska
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