Barriers of Intercultural Communication in Transferring Culturally-Bound Utterances and Expressions of the Qur’an from Arabic into English: Implications and Strategy

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ABSTRACT This paper investigates the translational transference of culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the Qur’anic discourse into English. The study adopts a qualitative research method and content text analysis to analyse how culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the source language text were translated into English by two well-known translators. The study argues that lexicosemantic realization and analysis of the culturally-bound utterances and expressions of Arabic is a mandatory pre-condition to accurately transfer them into English. The studyproposes Lexicosemantic Decipherability Strategy that may assist translators to accurately select the target language lexicosemantic items of different genres.