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Al-Ali, Mohammed N. and Fahad M. Alliheibi. 2015. Struggling to retain the functions of passive when translating English thesis abstracts. Pragmatics 25 (2) : 129–148.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | function | genre | passive | translation system

Language as a subject

Arabic | English

Place, Publisher

IPRA

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study shows that when Arab student-translators come across the English passive sentence in thesis abstracts, they do not translate the English passive structures into their correlating Arabic passive to preserve the pragma-generic functions linked to these constructions, but use other translation replacements.