The pragmatics of ’inšāllah in Jordanian Arabic

Farghal, Mohammed

doi:10.1515/mult.1995.14.3.253

“…ʻThank God you had a safe journeyʼ) has its own pragmatic force to perform-actually more than one illocutionary act, i.e. ʻa pragmatically multipurpose expressionʼ (Farghal 1995;see also Austin 1962). One act is to offer a fantastic welcome to someone who has just arrived at a place.…”

Section: Analysis and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subtitling on the Intersection of Theory and Practice: Pedagogical Research-Based Approach to Subtitler Training

Thawabteh¹

2017

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The present article investigates our proposed approach for subtitler training namely a Pedagogical Research-Based (PRB), defined as a professionally-oriented approach utilised in Audiovisual Translation (AVT) translator training to theoretically and practically strengthen the subtitling skills of trainees. The data of the present study is derived from an Egyptian television hard-edged drama entitled Firqit Naji Atallah (lit. Naji Atallah Team), Episode 1 (2012), subtitled by a sample of twenty MA translation students, ten of whom enrolled in the second semester for the academic year 2013/2014 and the rest (also totalling ten) did the same, a year later, namely for the school year 2014/2015. The article clearly reveals that before PRB approach is introduced in actual translation classroom, translator trainees (i.e. experimental group) are faced with tremendously difficult problems linguistically, culturally and technically which may hinder communication, thought to be crucial to retain for the target audience. The PRB approach is then introduced whereby the other translator trainees are equipped with some theoretical insights apropos of subtitling norms, well-envisaged in two scholarly AVT works by Karamitroglou (1998) and Schwarz (2002). Being aware of the PRB approach, the translator trainees could therefore do the translation task with minimal linguistic, cultural and technical problems. The study concludes with some pedagogical implications that will hopefully help translator trainees do translation tasks with minimal communication breakdown and maximal communicative thrust drawing on PRB.

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“…ʻThank God you had a safe journeyʼ) has its own pragmatic force to performactually more than one illocutionary act, i.e. ʻa pragmatically multipurpose expressionʼ (Farghal 1995; see also Austin 1962). One act is to offer a fantastic welcome to someone who has just arrived at a place.…”

Section: Analysis and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subtitling on the Intersection of Theory and Practice: Pedagogical Research-Based Approach to Subtitler Training

Thawabteh¹

2017

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The present article investigates our proposed approach for subtitler training namely a Pedagogical Research-Based (PRB), defined as a professionally-oriented approach utilised in Audiovisual Translation (AVT) translator training to theoretically and practically strengthen the subtitling skills of trainees. The data of the present study is derived from an Egyptian television hard-edged drama entitled Firqit Naji Atallah (lit. Naji Atallah Team), Episode 1 (2012), subtitled by a sample of twenty MA translation students, ten of whom enrolled in the second semester for the academic year 2013/2014 and the rest (also totalling ten) did the same, a year later, namely for the school year 2014/2015. The article clearly reveals that before PRB approach is introduced in actual translation classroom, translator trainees (i.e. experimental group) are faced with tremendously difficult problems linguistically, culturally and technically which may hinder communication, thought to be crucial to retain for the target audience. The PRB approach is then introduced whereby the other translator trainees are equipped with some theoretical insights apropos of subtitling norms, well-envisaged in two scholarly AVT works by Karamitroglou (1998) and Schwarz (2002). Being aware of the PRB approach, the translator trainees could therefore do the translation task with minimal linguistic, cultural and technical problems. The study concludes with some pedagogical implications that will hopefully help translator trainees do translation tasks with minimal communication breakdown and maximal communicative thrust drawing on PRB.

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“…For more elaboration, consider Example 7 below: The Arabic interjection Allāh (literally the name of God in Islam) is obviously derived from a noun (see Norrick 2007). It has drifted from its semantic import by acquiring new illocutions, namely to introduce a remark or response expressing surprise, and hence becomes pragmatically multipurpose expression (for the translatability of a similar item: 'inšāllah, see Farghal 1995). As can be noted, the strategy employed for Wow, rather than, say, Jeez, seems to be successful as the latter expresses shock and even causes offence in English.…”

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The Translatability of Interjections: A Case Study of Arabic-English Subtitling

Thawabteh

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2010

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This paper examines the translatability of Arabic interjections into English subtitling, illustrated with a subtitled Egyptian film, State Security subtitled by Arab Radio and Television (ART). Theoretical framework regarding both Audiovisual Translation (AVT) and interjections is first discussed. The significance of interjections is approached from the perspective of technical and translation paradigms. The study shows that although technical issues limit the subtitler’s choices, they have very little to do with translating interjections because they are typically short words. With regard to translation, the study shows that the subtitler may opt for three major translation strategies: 1) an avoidance of source language (SL) interjection whereby a SL interjectional utterance is translated into a target language (TL) interjection-free utterance; 2) a retention of SL interjection in which SL interjection is rendered into a TL interjection; and 3) an addition of interjection whereby SL interjection-free utterance is translated into a TL interjection.Le présent article examine la traductibilité des interjections arabes dans un sous-titrage anglais. La recherche est illustrée par un film égyptien, intitulé State Security (La sécurité d’État), qui est sous-titré par le réseau de radio et de télévision arabe (Arab Radio and Television Network; ART). Le cadre théorique relatif à la traduction audiovisuelle (TAV) et aux interjections est tout d’abord présenté. L’importance des interjections est abordée du point de vue des paradigmes techniques et traductionnels. L’étude montre que, bien que les questions techniques limitent le choix des sous-titreurs, elles ont peu d’influence sur la traduction des interjections, car celles-ci sont généralement des mots courts. En ce qui concerne la traduction, l’étude montre que le sous-titreur peut opter pour trois grandes stratégies: 1) ne pas prendre en compte l’interjection dans la langue source (LS) et utiliser une expression sans interjection dans la langue cible (LC); 2) prendre en considération l’interjection dans la LS et la traduire dans la LC; 3) ajouter une interjection dans la LC alors qu’elle est absente dans la LS

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The pragmatics of ’inšāllah in Jordanian Arabic

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Subtitling on the Intersection of Theory and Practice: Pedagogical Research-Based Approach to Subtitler Training

Subtitling on the Intersection of Theory and Practice: Pedagogical Research-Based Approach to Subtitler Training

Subtitling on the Intersection of Theory and Practice: Pedagogical Research-Based Approach to Subtitler Training

The Translatability of Interjections: A Case Study of Arabic-English Subtitling

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