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Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech: Translation and Commentary
(2016-12)
Although Winston Churchill wrote some of the greatest speeches of the twentieth century, few of those speeches or only fragments of them have been translated into Arabic. This thesis is a translation and commentary of one ...
Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
(2016-11)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the interconnection between politics, the media, and translation with particular reference to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Agency and politics play an important role in both media ...
A Discourse Analysis of Mahfouz's Attitude to Women and to Religion: A Translation Perspective
(2016-04)
This study aims to investigate the issues related to translating literary work from Arabic into English. In particular, it focuses on the theory of foreignization and domestication. Two main ideological perspectives are ...
Translating Political Discourse King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein's Papers
(2016-05)
When researchers discuss the translation of political discourse they usually refer to the ideology of the translators in its negative meaning. This is because the term ideology as a concept involves manipulation of the ...
The Translation of Simile in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
(2016-11)
This thesis examines the translation of similes in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre (1847). Data is collected from the original work and two Arabic translations of it by Munir Baalabaki (1985) and Helmi Morad (2003). It ...
Pragmatics and the Translation of Self-Help Discourse
(2016-12)
Traditionally, books are meant to instruct, entertain or both. A new wave of books has emerged known as self-help, promising its readers with better lives. These recipe format books present their own characteristics, notably ...
Arab Culture in Translation: From Exoticism to Terrorism
(2016-05)
The 9/11 attacks placed the Arab and Islamic World at the center of a global attention characterized by the negativity of an old inherited conception. While portraying Arabs and Muslims again within a clash of civilizations ...
Cohesion in Arabic Subtitling
(2016-12)
This study explores the translation of substitution and ellipsis as cohesive devices in English based on the framework of cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976) which categorizes cohesion into five different taxonomies; ...