The Arabic-English Translator as Photographer

A Linguistic Account
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-06825-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

By choosing to use different linguistic approaches as a theoretical basis of their study of translation as a process of picture-taking, The Arabic-English Translator as Photographer: A Linguistic Account offers readers an original view of the translator’s work.

In addition to laying emphasis on the importance of giving full consideration to the mental image(s) conjured up in the mind of the translators, the book provides an accessible introduction to structural semiotics, interpretive semiotics, functional grammar, semantics and cognitive linguistics for students and researchers who are new to the field. The book can be used as a basis for (post)graduate students, especially students of MA and PhD in Translation Studies as well as students in modern languages schools.

The book focuses on a specific pair of languages, English and Arabic, and presents the relationships generated by texts’ translation, including adverts and other types of texts, between these two languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Almanna, Ali

Al-Shehari, Khaled

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

List of abbreviations

Chapter 1: Setting the scene: introductory matters

Who is the book for?

Why is it different?

Structure of the book

Hypotheses & research questions

Significance of the book

Theoretical background

Key technical terms

Warming up exercises

Further reading

Chapter 2: Signs & syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes

Semiotics

Signified versus signifier

Syntagms and paradigms

Commutation test

Key technical terms

Exercises

Further reading

Chapter 3: Sign's functions & intertextuality

Peirce’s interpretive semiotics

Iconic function

Indexical function

Symbolic function

Intertextuality

Key technical terms

Exercises

Further reading

Chapter 4: Transitivity system

Transitivity

Material processes

Mental processes

Verbal processes

Behavioural processes

Relational processes

Existential Processes

Circumstances

Key technical terms

Exercises

Further reading

Chapter 5: Semantic roles and energy transfer

Arguments & types of semantic roles

Verb-specific semantic roles

Grammatical relations and semantic roles

Energy transfer & mental contact

Key technical terms

Exercises

Further reading



Chapter 6: Imaging systems I: The configurational system

Plexity

State of boundedness

State of dividedness

Degree of extension

Pattern of distribution

Axiality

Scene partitioning

Key technical terms

Exercises

Further reading

Chapter 7: Imaging systems II: attention, perspective & force dynamics

Distribution of attention

Force dynamics

Deployment of perspective

Location

Distance

Mode

Direction

Key technical terms

Exercises

Further reading



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Almanna has a PhD in Translation Studies from Durham University (UK) and MA in Linguistics and Translation from Westminster University (UK). Currently, he is the head of English department, Al-Zahra College for Women where he teaches Linguistics and Translation. His recent publications include The Routledge Course in Translation Annotation, Semantics for Translation Students and The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation.

Khaled Al-Shehari is Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He holds an MSc (1998) and a PhD (2001) in Translation Studies from the University of Manchester, UK. He has published articles in The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Translation Studies in the New Millennium, and edited collections.