• Dr. Ibrahem Bani Abdo

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• Alia Al-Shamaileh

  Author

This study investigates the concepts of dynamic equivalence and semiology in translating the
titles’ pages and the reading images of eight novels. Perfume; The Story of a Murder , One
Hundred Year of Solitude ,Animal farm , Oliver Twist , The Wind in The Willows , Pride and
Prejudice , Black Beauty , and Love in the Time of Cholera are the studied novels. These eight
titles pages have been chosen randomly as the most well-known novels translated from English
to Arabic. This paper gives a critical review of dynamic equivalence and the semiological
analysis system in translating images and titles. The method uses semiology equivalence model
in analyzing the titles’ images of the selected novels. This study is based on the dynamic
equivalence and semiology of Nida (1996); Jacobson (1959); Munday (2000); Medalia (1999);
House (1981); O'Shaughnessy and Stadler (2005). This study concludes the importance of using
the semiological analysis in reading images for the appropriate translation equivalence between
English to Arabic. It also reveals the key points in translating signs through the semiological
analysis in terms of the cultural differences, codes, the denotative and connotative
interpretations. This study also explains the relationship between semiology and the dynamic
equivalence in translation between English into Arabic. Finally, it shows the dynamic
equivalence problems in translating titles and images through the semiotic system which show
that there is no full equivalence between two words or code units.

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