Translation involves the process of transferring texts to target audiences who possess an establi... more Translation involves the process of transferring texts to target audiences who possess an established system of representation (master discourse) that has its own set of norms for producing and consuming knowledge concerning the self, others, objects, and events. Influenced by its own culture, this master discourse governs matters related to identity, similarities, and differences between the source and target texts and associated cultures. While it is theoretically assumed that intercultural encounters through translation should celebrate diversity and differences, practices indicate otherwise: mon-isms have dominated over intended multi-isms. Focusing primarily on the translation of texts from Arabic into English, this article explores how the master discourse regulates translation, shaping the way knowledge is manipulated, and influencing the translation process, its product, and ultimately its reception.
As the par excellence site for intercultural encounters, translation demonstrates the need for th... more As the par excellence site for intercultural encounters, translation demonstrates the need for the interface of language and culture in the exploration of the complex processes inherent in translating across cultures. The complexity stems from the fact that translation involves the carrying-over of specific cultural input (texts as cultural goods) to and recuperated by particular target constituencies. These constituencies have at their disposal an established discourse with its own norms for the production and consumption of meanings (as texts) vis-à-vis the self, others, objects, and events. Under the constraints and disciplinary demands of this culturally defined discourse, cultural identity, similarity and difference are identified, negotiated, accepted and/or resisted through translation. Drawing on translation from Arabic, this contribution explores the culture of translation in the translation of culture.
Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one of the main ... more Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one of the main means through which texts of one culture are made available in another. It should, in theory, be the site of a potentially fruitful clash of different cultures and particularly vital in the case of
In this chapter, we focus on one component of an ongoing study conducted by the Faculty of Transl... more In this chapter, we focus on one component of an ongoing study conducted by the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) and the Hopitaux Universitaire de Geneve (HUG): doctor–patient communication in emergency settings. The main aim of the paper is to compare translation quality obtained with two different translation tools for the language pair French to Arabic: Google Translate, an MT statistical system, and BabelDr, a flexible phraselator with speech recognition, developed by the FTI and HUG (Rayner et al., 2015; Bouillon et al., 2016). The comparison will be made from two different angles. We want to quantify (1) the impact of translation output quality on the transmission of information to patients; and (2) the impact of a type of incorrect translation in relation to the diagnosis. The chapter goes on to present a description of the two tools and data used in the experiment. It then provides an analysis of the translation output. The motivation behind the research reported...
INTRODUCTION By definition, intercultural communication involves contact, mostly through language... more INTRODUCTION By definition, intercultural communication involves contact, mostly through language, between two or more different, even opposing, cultures. On the one hand, this contact takes place in the same culture, between mini-cultures, so to speak, (feminist and nonfeminist camps, pro-life and pro-choice groups, pro-war and antiwar policies, racist and antiracist views, and many other "pro" and "anti" groups within the same culture/society). This situation may be defined as intracultural communication, whereby the tensions between the differing groups are manifested through different modes of representation and different discourses that may easily lead to violence. Contact between different cultures, as separate nations or societies, on the other hand, is the prime domain of intercultural communication. While a breakdown in intracultural communication may lead to cracks in a particular culture (society) – civil wars, for example – societies tend to negate, e...
Introduction Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one... more Introduction Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one of the main means through which texts of one culture are made available in another. It should, in theory, be the site of a potentially fruitful clash of different cultures and particularly vital in the case of translation from those supposedly weaker and subordinate cultures into dominant ones, as in the case of translation from Arabic into English and French, for example (cf. Faiq, 2004). This notion of translating not only covers the traditional definition of translation, transfer of texts from one language to another, but also, and more importantly, texts written in one language but which originate in or concern cultures other than that of the language in which they are written. Over the last two decades or so, many translation scholars have stressed that translation, by necessity, involves manipulation and subversion of linguistic and cultural traditions, particularly those emanatin...
Although it has been taking place rather quietly, the debate about the author-translator duality ... more Although it has been taking place rather quietly, the debate about the author-translator duality remains one of the most interesting and prickly issues in translation studies. The topic becomes more encompassing when it is explored under self-translation. Within this context, the aim of this article is to examine instances from the translation of Autumn of Fury from English into Arabic by the very author of the source text. The discussion shows how subversion through self-translation manipulates the reading position of the target audience, naturally, for specific purposes.
Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Culture of Translation and the Translation of Culture Chapter 3 The ... more Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Culture of Translation and the Translation of Culture Chapter 3 The Master Discourse of Translation Chapter 4 A Case of Pseudo-translation Chapter 5 A Case of Self-translation Chapter 6 A Case of Translation Historiography Part 7 References Part 8 Author Index Part 9 Subject Index
a Palestinian, has worked for the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Sharjah & Dubai (UAE) si... more a Palestinian, has worked for the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Sharjah & Dubai (UAE) since 1995. She lived most of her life in Kuwait where she was educated in public schools and Kuwait University from which she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature in 1988. She taught English in secondary schools before moving to education management and business in the private sector both in Kuwait and Jordan. Currently, she serves as the Student Academic Advisor at Sharjah HCT. In 2008 she received her M.A. in translation and interpreting from the American University of Sharjah (UAE). She has been engaged in/with translation for business and media purposes.
This thesis starts with the postulate that advanced Arab students are generally «good» at the lev... more This thesis starts with the postulate that advanced Arab students are generally «good» at the level of sentence formation and context free semantics of English, but who are «poor» when it comes to appropriately structuring information as texts. In an attempt to help such a student population, in the first instance, achieve a textual competence and find some pedagogical implications, the present thesis adopts - with some modifications -a typologically oriented model for text-structure processing. To achieve such objectives, six chapters make up the thesis. Chapter 1 sets both the motivations and the assumptions which underly the thesis. Chapter 2 selectively reviews some episodes in the development of text-linguistics. Chapter 3 is devoted to the explanations of the various components of the model adopted for text-structure processing. Chapter 4 has two purposes: 1- A descriptive analysis of three exemplary texts to demonstrate the pure analytic potential of the model. 2- The design ...
Translation involves the process of transferring texts to target audiences who possess an establi... more Translation involves the process of transferring texts to target audiences who possess an established system of representation (master discourse) that has its own set of norms for producing and consuming knowledge concerning the self, others, objects, and events. Influenced by its own culture, this master discourse governs matters related to identity, similarities, and differences between the source and target texts and associated cultures. While it is theoretically assumed that intercultural encounters through translation should celebrate diversity and differences, practices indicate otherwise: mon-isms have dominated over intended multi-isms. Focusing primarily on the translation of texts from Arabic into English, this article explores how the master discourse regulates translation, shaping the way knowledge is manipulated, and influencing the translation process, its product, and ultimately its reception.
As the par excellence site for intercultural encounters, translation demonstrates the need for th... more As the par excellence site for intercultural encounters, translation demonstrates the need for the interface of language and culture in the exploration of the complex processes inherent in translating across cultures. The complexity stems from the fact that translation involves the carrying-over of specific cultural input (texts as cultural goods) to and recuperated by particular target constituencies. These constituencies have at their disposal an established discourse with its own norms for the production and consumption of meanings (as texts) vis-à-vis the self, others, objects, and events. Under the constraints and disciplinary demands of this culturally defined discourse, cultural identity, similarity and difference are identified, negotiated, accepted and/or resisted through translation. Drawing on translation from Arabic, this contribution explores the culture of translation in the translation of culture.
Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one of the main ... more Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one of the main means through which texts of one culture are made available in another. It should, in theory, be the site of a potentially fruitful clash of different cultures and particularly vital in the case of
In this chapter, we focus on one component of an ongoing study conducted by the Faculty of Transl... more In this chapter, we focus on one component of an ongoing study conducted by the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) and the Hopitaux Universitaire de Geneve (HUG): doctor–patient communication in emergency settings. The main aim of the paper is to compare translation quality obtained with two different translation tools for the language pair French to Arabic: Google Translate, an MT statistical system, and BabelDr, a flexible phraselator with speech recognition, developed by the FTI and HUG (Rayner et al., 2015; Bouillon et al., 2016). The comparison will be made from two different angles. We want to quantify (1) the impact of translation output quality on the transmission of information to patients; and (2) the impact of a type of incorrect translation in relation to the diagnosis. The chapter goes on to present a description of the two tools and data used in the experiment. It then provides an analysis of the translation output. The motivation behind the research reported...
INTRODUCTION By definition, intercultural communication involves contact, mostly through language... more INTRODUCTION By definition, intercultural communication involves contact, mostly through language, between two or more different, even opposing, cultures. On the one hand, this contact takes place in the same culture, between mini-cultures, so to speak, (feminist and nonfeminist camps, pro-life and pro-choice groups, pro-war and antiwar policies, racist and antiracist views, and many other "pro" and "anti" groups within the same culture/society). This situation may be defined as intracultural communication, whereby the tensions between the differing groups are manifested through different modes of representation and different discourses that may easily lead to violence. Contact between different cultures, as separate nations or societies, on the other hand, is the prime domain of intercultural communication. While a breakdown in intracultural communication may lead to cracks in a particular culture (society) – civil wars, for example – societies tend to negate, e...
Introduction Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one... more Introduction Translation, in its academic, professional and anthropological meanings, remains one of the main means through which texts of one culture are made available in another. It should, in theory, be the site of a potentially fruitful clash of different cultures and particularly vital in the case of translation from those supposedly weaker and subordinate cultures into dominant ones, as in the case of translation from Arabic into English and French, for example (cf. Faiq, 2004). This notion of translating not only covers the traditional definition of translation, transfer of texts from one language to another, but also, and more importantly, texts written in one language but which originate in or concern cultures other than that of the language in which they are written. Over the last two decades or so, many translation scholars have stressed that translation, by necessity, involves manipulation and subversion of linguistic and cultural traditions, particularly those emanatin...
Although it has been taking place rather quietly, the debate about the author-translator duality ... more Although it has been taking place rather quietly, the debate about the author-translator duality remains one of the most interesting and prickly issues in translation studies. The topic becomes more encompassing when it is explored under self-translation. Within this context, the aim of this article is to examine instances from the translation of Autumn of Fury from English into Arabic by the very author of the source text. The discussion shows how subversion through self-translation manipulates the reading position of the target audience, naturally, for specific purposes.
Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Culture of Translation and the Translation of Culture Chapter 3 The ... more Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Culture of Translation and the Translation of Culture Chapter 3 The Master Discourse of Translation Chapter 4 A Case of Pseudo-translation Chapter 5 A Case of Self-translation Chapter 6 A Case of Translation Historiography Part 7 References Part 8 Author Index Part 9 Subject Index
a Palestinian, has worked for the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Sharjah & Dubai (UAE) si... more a Palestinian, has worked for the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Sharjah & Dubai (UAE) since 1995. She lived most of her life in Kuwait where she was educated in public schools and Kuwait University from which she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature in 1988. She taught English in secondary schools before moving to education management and business in the private sector both in Kuwait and Jordan. Currently, she serves as the Student Academic Advisor at Sharjah HCT. In 2008 she received her M.A. in translation and interpreting from the American University of Sharjah (UAE). She has been engaged in/with translation for business and media purposes.
This thesis starts with the postulate that advanced Arab students are generally «good» at the lev... more This thesis starts with the postulate that advanced Arab students are generally «good» at the level of sentence formation and context free semantics of English, but who are «poor» when it comes to appropriately structuring information as texts. In an attempt to help such a student population, in the first instance, achieve a textual competence and find some pedagogical implications, the present thesis adopts - with some modifications -a typologically oriented model for text-structure processing. To achieve such objectives, six chapters make up the thesis. Chapter 1 sets both the motivations and the assumptions which underly the thesis. Chapter 2 selectively reviews some episodes in the development of text-linguistics. Chapter 3 is devoted to the explanations of the various components of the model adopted for text-structure processing. Chapter 4 has two purposes: 1- A descriptive analysis of three exemplary texts to demonstrate the pure analytic potential of the model. 2- The design ...
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