Studies in African Languages and Cultures (Dec 2012)
Al-Hausawi, al-Hindawi: media contraflow, urban communication and translinguistic onomatopoeia among Hausa of Northern Nigeria
Abstract
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.
