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Siddiek, Ahmed Gumaa – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present study is an attempt to raise some points that should be considered when translating the Quranic Text into English. We have looked into some samples of translations, selected from well known English translations of the Holy Quran and critically examined them. There were some errors in those translations, due to linguistic factors, owing…
Descriptors: Translation, Semitic Languages, Simulation, Error Patterns
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Iwasaki, Noriko; Vinson, David P.; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
We investigate linguistic relativity effects by examining whether the grammatical count/mass distinction in English affects English speakers' semantic representations of noun referents, as compared with those of Japanese speakers, whose language does not grammatically distinguish nouns for countability. We used two tasks which are sensitive to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, Japanese