The Process of Inclusion: Pairs of Bilingual Synonyms with a Broader Semantic Field in English Language than in Albanian Language

Abstract

This research aims to cover the morphologic and semantic aspects of bilingual synonyms (the form and meaning) in English and Albanian language. The similarities in form and differences in meaning of bilingual synonyms in Albanian and English are important in translation and teaching process. The direction of our research is from Albanian to English language. The focus of our comparison is the question of similarity and diversity (pair of words that have the same form but the semantic field of the English words is wider than in Albanian language).

The analysis of this bilingual phenomenon (bilingual synonyms) is done according to the subjective technique, by comparing the surface structures of the languages thereby using monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, dictionaries of foreign words, and reverse dictionaries of the Albanian language. The other technique being used is the objective technique, working with the corpus, one-way, bidirectional translation, and group test of Gjorgevic (1982). The examples that will help our research are Albanian texts translated into English, exclusively from native English speakers, because only through them we can see the differences that occur between these two languages.

With the method of contrastive analysis that will be applied in this research, the following relations or differences will be analyzed  on semantic level (Ivir, 1968);  pairs of bilinguals synonyms whose meaning overlap to a certain level but the scope of meanings in Albanian language is narrower than in the English language.

Key words: bilingual synonyms, semantic fields, semantic signs, similarity, difference.