Journal of Language Studies
Tikrit University

Decision Making in Translating English Polysemous Expressions into Arabic

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Lect. Osama Misbah Mahmood Al-Hamdani (Ph. D.)

Department of Translation, College of Arts, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq

https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.10.2.P1.12
Abstract
Ambiguity is due to meaning which has more than one meaning. It may be due to several points, namely, pragmatic, phonetic, cultural, structural and grammatical. It means that words, phrases or any expressions have multiple meanings. The problem of this research is that these words or expressions could be interpreted into an ambiguous statement of target language. So, the translator will be confused to show the appropriate translation or rendering which stay as a ambiguous to source language. Added to these, some words as well as sentences have more than one meaning. So, according to words which have more than one meaning called lexical ambiguity whereas the sentence which has more than one meaning called syntactic ambiguity The study aims to translate the ambiguous structures from English into Arabic. For achieving this aim, the research hypothesises that the ambiguous structures of these expressions or words could be translated or interpreted via giving all things which they carry but not into unclear structures which belongs to source text.

Keywords

decision
translation
polysemy
structure
ambiguity
Crossmark
Journal of Language Studies
Volume 10, Issue 2, Part 1
Spring 2026
Pages 230-242

  • Receive Date 06 January 2026
  • Accept Date 02 February 2026
  • Publish Date 01 June 2026

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