THE USE OF BORROWING AS A TECHNIQUE IN THE TRANSLATION OF ARABIC LEGAL LABOUR TERMS EMPLOYED IN THE HEADLINES OF SAUDI ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

Abstract

Abstract: Legal translation is deemed an arduous exercise, which draws on different lexical and structural choices (Chroma, 2004b, p. 2). Generally, the issue of legal terminology has long been an important area of interest among both legal translation scholars as well as legal translators. However, the use of legal labour terms, which points to the existence of legal terms in the Saudi Labour Law, in news articles has not received much attention, particularly the use of borrowing as a translation approach in introducing Saudi legal labour terms to particular English readership. The present paper addresses the translation of certain legal labour terms found in Saudi news headlines into Saudi English newspapers and how the use of the borrowing technique proves fruitful in rendering such legal labour terms into English. the present paper argues that although the use of the borrowing technique in rendering certain legal labour Arabic terms in news headlines into English has proved useful as such terms target special readership and therefore, create the intended effect, inserting certain explanation of such terms may well widen the readership of such newspapers and make them universal. It also helps those who are interested in further understanding the Saudi Labour Law to obtain relevant detail about it. Such lexical expansion may be placed in the stories following the news headlines. Alternatively, a glossary of all the terms employed in the news headlines of Arab News and Saudi Gazette may be uploaded in their websites. This is to familiarise the reader with the intended meaning of any legal labour term that has been used in the headlines of such newspapers.