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Loser becomes Winner: Translating Reality Shows for the Arab World
(2012-04)
The general belief is that reality television's diffusive intrusion into Arab media discourse is tarnishing the culture and identity of the target audience with that reshaping the role ideology plays in translation. This ...
Child Educational Psychology: Translation and Commentary
(2014-05)
This thesis explores the problems associated with translating the discourse of child educational psychology. To this end, the thesis includes a translation from English into Arabic and a Commentary of two selected chapters ...
Domesticate in the Name of Islam
(2013-05)
The difficulties in translating Islamic discourse from Arabic into English are well documented. This discourse presents many gaps at many levels (from linguistic to ideological gaps). But the translation of Islamic discourses ...
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 ...
Culture in Relay Audio-Visual Translation: A Case of Inevitable Culture Divergence
(2015-12)
Given the basic convention that translation is a process of intercultural interaction, it is supposed that relay translation, which is a form of translation, also functions so, but its role in the transfer of culture should ...
Translation and Representation of Political Discourse in the Media
(2011)
It is generally assumed that the purpose of translation is to bridge the gap between cultures and provide a better understanding of the other. However, this understanding is often shaped to suit a certain agenda. Given ...
The Need for Domestication: An Annotated Translation of a Personal Development Text from English to Arabic
(2005-06)
This work discusses problems related to the need to domesticate encountered during the translation of the prologue, introduction, and part of Chapter I of a book titled The Different Drums by American psychiatrist and ...
And the Mountains Echoed: Translation and Commentary
(2014-07)
Many world-famous authors owe a significant portion of their fame to the unsung heroes of literary translation. This thesis explores issues related to literary translation by translating a literary text and providing a ...
Textual Equivalence through Pragmatics and the Semiotics of Culture
(2015-05)
The science of translation is all about how to transfer the meaning from one language to the target language. This thesis discusses different approaches by some linguists on achieving textual equivalence through interpreting ...