Fareh, Shehdeh <br/><br/>
Practicality and usefulness of English- Arabic dictionaries in translating English metaphors 

 - Sint-Amandsberg  Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs  january-march 2007 
 - p.32-47 
 - Anual 
 - Volume 53, Issue 1, 2007  v. 53, n. 1 .
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<br/><br/> This study aims at investigating the nature and scope of the problems that Arab learners encounter in translating English metaphorical expressions into Arabic using English-Arabic dictionaries. The strategies involved in translating English metaphors into Arabic have been identified and described. The study also aims at determining the extent to which English-Arabic dictionaries are helpful to.learners in translating English metaphors. The findings of the study reveal that learners resort to a number of strategies induding finding the idiomatic translation equivalents, literal translation, interpretation and guessing. Bilingual dictionaries have been found to be a potential source of error for learners. These dictionaries offer inadequate help to translators in terms of providing equivalents to metaphorical expressions. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>0521-9744 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>EQUIVALENCIA<br/>INGLÉS<br/>INGLÉS - ÁRABE<br/>METODOLOGÍA DE LA TRADUCCIÓN<br/>TRADUCCION DE METAFORAS Y SIMILES<br/>TRADUCCION LITERAL
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>H17