Arabic Translation Across Discourses

✍ Scribed by Said Faiq (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A rare contribution to global translation as a ‘cross-cultural-open-concept’, Arabic Translation Across Discourses provides explorations of Arabic translation as an instance of transcultural and translingual encounters (transculguaging). This book examines the application and interrogation of discourses of translation in the translation of discourses (religion, literature, media, politics, technology, community, audiovisual, and automated systems of communication for translation). The contributors provide insights into the concerns and debates of Arabic translation as a tradition with local, yet global dimensions of translation and intercultural studies.

This volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of all translation studies, but will also provide a rich source for those studying and researching history, geopolitics, intercultural studies, globalization, and allied disciplines.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: the discourse of translation and the translation of discourse
2 The rise of interventionist Quran translations: contextual overdetermination and the translator’s political agency
3 Google translate and BabelDr in community medical settings: challenges of translating into Arabic
4 Community translation and the integration of immigrants
5 Mapping Arabic subtitling conventions: the case of Dubai One and MBC 2
6 Audiovisual translation and pragmatic loss in film subtitling
7 Audiovisual translation of humour into Arabic
8 Translating advertisements: gain and loss
9 Engineered response and the translation of Arabic political texts
10 A semantic approach to translating state propositions in technical discourse (English–Arabic)
11 Power relations and translation as ‘rewriting’ in the postcolonial context
12 Foreignizing the translation of a post–Arab spring Libyan short story
13 Mapping crime fiction in Arabic literature
14 Investigating the effect of stemming and part-of-speech tagging on automatic extraction of translation equivalents from parallel corpora for Arabic–English machine translation
Author index
Subject index