Abstract This paper aims to study how war metaphors in science news articles about the COVID-19 pandemic have been translated from English source texts (ST) to Arabic. To reach this end, a corpus of 94 science news articles from English and Arabic is constructed and analysed using a model of metaphor translation strategies. The analysis has revealed that the metaphor has been largely maintained, and that retention and modification have been equally used by the translators thus highlighting their faithfulness to the ST and adaptation to the target language (TL) culture and norms. Cases of modification have been related to valuing positiveness in the Arab culture and to the preference for formal and embellished style in the TL genre and register.
Fatma Benelhadj (Mon,) studied this question.