The Examination of Language Games in Terms of Equivalence in Translated Text From English to Arabic of the Novel of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The concept of equivalence, which expresses the relations between the source text and the target text in the translation process, can be defined as finding the closest equivalent of the source text in the target text. In order for the translated text to have the same taste in the target language, the equivalence between the two languages should be good. Many novels have been translated from English to Arabic. This translation was translated from English to Arabic. Jane Eyre is in the Victorian England. The novel is about love between two people of different classes, underlining the pressures, class distinction, male domination in society. Jane Eyre, who was one of the first novels about women’s freedom and rights, is also one of the most important works of romanticism. The author was inspired by his own life. In this study, language plays in Arabic translation of famous novelist Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre were examined in terms of equivalence. In addition to semantic, syntactic, linguistic, and stylistic dimensions, translation of language games such as proverb, idiom, metaphor, personification, and comparison, which are the main material of a decorated language, is emphasized and their equivalence is interpreted in the light of the theories of translation. The analysis of the selected sample sentences from the novel within the context of translation criticism shows that the translator preserves the form and content of the source text in a significant way and provides a translation equivalent to the original in terms of linguistic, syntactic, and semantic. The Arabic reader seems to be able to understand the language games in English in a similar way in their own language.