Articles · Vol. 2 No. 8 (2026)
SEMANTIC AND CONTEXTUAL ISSUES IN THE UZBEK TRANSLATION OF JURJI ZAYDAN’S NOVEL “THE BRIDE OF FERGANA”
Keywords
literary translation; semantic equivalence; historical terms; translation strategies; Jurji Zaydan; cultural adaptation; Arabic; Uzbek.Abstract
This article analyzes the adequacy of semantic and contextual transfer
in the Uzbek translation of Jurji Zaydan’s novel “The Bride of Fergana.” Through
comparative analysis of the source text and its translation, the study examines semantic
equivalence, the translation of historical terms, cultural connotations, and the rendering
of stylistic features. Various translation strategies including calque, interpretative
translation, and descriptive equivalence are examined through textual examples drawn
from the translation by Shoikrom Shoislomov (Zaydan, 2005). The findings indicate
that the translation successfully preserves the historical background, artistic imagery,
and overall conceptual integrity of the original work, while also revealing instances of
semantic narrowing, stylistic softening, and cultural simplification that are inherent to
any act of literary translation between historically and culturally distant traditions.
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