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Abstract. The objective of this paper is to address the problem of translating punctuation marks: is it really possible to translate punctuation the same way we translate vocabulary? or is it only a transfer of the functional use of punctuation marks from a source language to a target language? In order to study the role of punctuation marks in translation theories and practice, we first attempt to identify the nature and function of punctuation from a traductological perspective. The second part of our paper is a French-Arabic corpus analysis of the translation of punctuation marks. Our corpus analysis is based on Amin Maalouf’s book Les identités meurtrières and its translation into Arabic.

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Dana Awad, Ghassan Mourad & Marie-Rose Elamil (2020), “The Role of Punctuation in Translation,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 5, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 1081–1093.


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