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Ali Al-Saggaf M, Ho Abdullah I, Subakir Mohd Yassin M. Evidence Of Commerce Construal In English Translations Of The Noble Qur’an. MJLTM 2018; 8 (1) :159-173
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DRB-HICOM University of Automotive Malaysia
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This paper attempts at examining the evidences of commerce construal in three English Translations of the Noble Qur’an (ETNQs), namely; Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Asad and the Reformists 2010. SCAICM, a method of metaphor identification (Al-Saggaf, et. Al., 2015), was adapted to the objective of this research by utilizing stages B and (partially) C. Aided with corpus tools, a checklist of 87 commerce related words (CRWs) was extracted from. This checklist is run against the primary corpora of the three ETNQS to generate concordance and then, to qualitatively examine the context of every potential CRW instance whether it is literally used or metaphorically used using Lakoff and Johnson (1980a&b; 1999). The results have shown significant qualitative and quantitative evidences of the metaphorical use for the construal of commerce in the three ETNQs compared to the reference corpora (LOB and KJV).  This leads to the conclusion that commerce construal is evident and is deliberately implemented in the ETNQs for metaphorical conceptualization.
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Received: 2018/10/10 | Accepted: 2018/10/10 | Published: 2018/10/10

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