Procedures Used in Translating Some Lexical Challenges in the Translated Book "Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen (1967-1987)"

This study explores the lexical challenges that faced the researcher/translator when he translated a historical book entitled "Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen (1967-1987)". In addition, it aimed to detect the translation procedures used by the translator/researcher to deal with these lexical problems. The translator/researcher employed Ghazala's (2008) model to identify lexical problems of translation faced by the translator. It only concentrated on six lexical problems (idioms, metaphors, collocations, similes, proper nouns and polysemy). The study used descriptive qualitative design to find these lexical problems, and detect translation procedures to solve them. The results of the study indicated that there were too many lexical problems discovered in the book, therefore, many translation theorists' procedures were used such as transference, naturalization, literal translation, transposition, functional equivalent, omission, modulation, paraphrase, and many procedures were used to render the figurative language (metaphors and similes). It also examines how Ghazala’s model provides systematic procedures to address these challenges. This research contributes to the field of translation studies by providing a practical application of theoretical models and offering recommendations for future translators working with similar texts.