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Title KAMAL’S TRANSLATION OF THE SELECTED POEMS OF FAIZ: APPLICATION OF BAKER’S THEORY OF EQUIVALENCE

Author(s) IBAD ULLAH

Abstract This qualitative study aims to find out various types of non-equivalence across the selected poems in Urdu by Faiz and their translation in English by Kamal. It identifies nonequivalence at word level, above word, grammatical, textual and pragmatic level across the selected source text in Urdu and its target text in English. Furthermore, it also analyzes the types of strategies used by the translator while rendering the selected poems from one language to another language. Keeping in view the objectives of this research study, the selected poems and their translations were analyzed qualitatively by applying Baker’s theory of equivalence as a theoretical framework. The results of the study revealed that the non-equivalence in translation in relation to its source text at various levels has been recurrently given priority over the exact translation to preserve the meaning of the source text as much as possible. The researcher concludes that to carry across the meaning of source text in the translation, Kamal, at several occasion, has used non-equivalence at various levels to preserve and communicate the vastness of the source text. To do so he has used various strategies in his translation as proposed by Baker in her theory of equivalence. So, as a professional translator, Kamal takes great care to recreate the poems in English translation. This care, at several places, led to the selection of non-equivalence at the various levels to maintain as much as possible the equivalence in the English translation of the selected Urdu-poems of Faiz.

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Publication Date 2019-11-20

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