Al-Hausawi, al-Hindawi: media contraflow, urban communication and translinguistic onomatopoeia among Hausa of Northern Nigeria
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onomatopoeia, Hausa, media, equivalenceAbstract
In general, the purpose of translation - searching for cultural and semantic equivalents - is to reproduce various kinds of texts - including religious, literary, scientific, and philosophical texts - in another language and thus making them available to wider circle of readers. However, the term translation is confined to the written, and the term interpretation to the spoken (Newmark 1991: 35). Within this in mind, comparing text in different languages inevitably involves a theory of equivalence.
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