Papers in Arabic/English Translation- Studies 2

This second volume in the series of Papers in Arabic-English Translation Studies consists of 14 self-contained articles dealing with a variety of topics in Arabic/English TS. The aim (as in the first volume) is to bring together and update some scattered contributions in one volume, which is hoped to instigate more future volumes in a scantily researched area. Such a series can help in catering for the needs of students, researchers, and practitioners who usually experience difficulty in locating research dealing with Arabic/English TS and is hoped to make general references in translation studies more relevant to their work between Arabic and English. The reader can choose to read any article independently of the others according to his/her own interests. Where employed in this volume, square brackets indicate literal translation, which is meant to give a rough idea about the propositional content of some Arabic texts. Boldface typing is sometimes used to highlight the study items within the textual data or, alternatively, to highlight entire excerpts in some cases. The textual data is mostly given in Arabic script and sometimes along with transliteration. To avoid repetition in the bibliography, a unified list of references is provided separately at the end of the volume. The bulk of the textual data in this volume is drawn from published material, hence the subtitle 'A textual Data Perspective'. While the textual data is mainly drawn from literary discourse, it also touches on other text types/genres including the religious, the journalistic, the legal, etc. The main objective is to explore how professional translators (and student translators in a few cases) deal with different aspects of translation activity in the hope of offering insights relating to the procedures they employ and how successful these procedures are. The discussion of the textual data does not seek to offer final solutions but rather to engage the reader in a kind of critique that would help establish what we may call ‘translational argumentation’ which aims to link theory with practice in a coherent way.