Tikrit University

Assessing The Translation of Arabic Advertisement: Zain Iraq Telecom As a Case Study

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Tikrit University, College of science

2 Tikrit University, College of Arts

Abstract
Advertisement is a distinguished form of communication that is delivered to its intended audience through various media including, newspaper, magazines, and websites. The current study is concerned with assessing the translation of advertisements on Zain Iraq telecommunication company's website. The study hypothesizes that adopting semantic translation to translate advertisement tends to deviant the original meaning. To achieve this, six advertisements along with its translations were selected as the sample of the study. The samples were assessed according to Newmark (1988) and Mona Baker's (2018) models. Each of these two models has its own strategies of translation. The study concludes that various strategies could be utilized in order to conduct the translation of advertisements. Semantic translation doesn't deviant the meaning of an advertisement.

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Volume 9, Issue 1
Winter 2025
Pages 311-323

  • Receive Date 01 November 2024
  • Accept Date 15 December 2024
  • Publish Date 01 March 2025