• Dr. Othman Abualadas

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• Dr. Wael Salam

  Author

This study explores the different types of shifts in the translation of deictic expressions in three
Arabic translations of an English novel to see how these shifts can be related to the framework of
universals of translation, namely Blum-Kulka’s (1986/2000) Explicitation Hypothesis. The data
suggest a tendency in translation to reveal more deictic features than the original, suggesting a
more explicit text than its original. Although this general trend may point to strengthening of
textual relations at the explicit level, it may weaken the dynamic interactive relationship between
the linguistic expression and context of use/user, arousing less interpretive inferences and
allowing less projection of the reader’s personal views into the text.

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