Aspects of mistranslation from English into Ibibio: the case of Aids and the Ibibio Language Equivalent
This paper examines the semantics of AIDS in Ibibio, one of Africa’s languages spoken in the Southern part of Nigeria. It asserts that “Udoño itiaita”, literally “Eight diseases”, which the Ibibio-speaking people adopted as AIDS equivalent in the language, is a mistranslation and semantically inacc...
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| Language: | English |
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Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
2008
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1077/1/4-Effiong_Ekpenyong_bab4.pdf |