New Insights into Arabic Translation and Interpreting

194 Pages·2016·3.14 MB·English

by  Mustapha Taibi

New Insights into Arabic
Translation and Interpreting
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New Insights into Arabic
Translation and Interpreting
Edited by
Mustapha Taibi
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Names: Taibi, Mustapha, editor.
Title: New Insights into Arabic Translation and Interpreting/
Edited by Mustapha Taibi.
Description: Bristol: Multilingual Matters, [2016] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044279| ISBN 9781783095247 (hbk : alk. paper)
ISBN 9781783095254 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Arabic language—Study and teaching—Foreign speakers. | Arabic
language—Translating—Study and teaching. | Arabic
language—Semantics. | Language and culture.
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Stuart Campbell
1 Through the Master Discourse of Translation 7
Said Faiq
1. Introduction 7
2. The Master Discourse of Translation 8
3. Translation from Arabic 12
4. Conclusion 19
2 Curriculum Innovation in the Arab World: Community
Interpreting and Translation as an Example 22
Mustapha Taibi
1. Introduction 22
2. Social Need for Community Interpreting and Translation 24
3. The Role of Universities and Training Institutions 29
4. Criteria for Effective Training in Community
Interpreting and Translation 31
5. A Case of Curriculum Innovation 35
6. Conclusion 38
Appendix 39
3 Translating for Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia: A Matter of Quality 47
Mustapha Taibi and Ahmad Qadi
1. Introduction 47
2. Translating for Pilgrims: A Special Case of Community
Translation 48
3. The Data 51
4. Quality Assessment 51
5. Conclusion 66
4 Interpreting Taboo: The Case of Arabic Interpreters
in Spanish Public Services 69
Mustapha Taibi and Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui
1. Introduction 69
2. Interpreting, Translation and Culture 70
3. Arab Cultures and Sex-Related Taboos 72
4. Taboo in the Context of Community Interpreting 75
5. Conclusion 87
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5 Terminology in Undergraduate Translation and Interpreting
Programmes in Spain: The Case of Arabic as a First Foreign
Language 91
Naima Ilhami and Catherine Way
1. Introduction 91
2. Terminology and Arabic 92
3. Differential Aspects of Terminology in Spanish and in
Modern Standard Arabic 96
4. Terminology Training in the Translating and
Interpreting Degree at Spanish Universities 99
5. Adequacy of the Content and Approach of the Terminology
Module for the Needs of Arabic B Language Students 106
6. Conclusions 111
6 Towards a Functional Approach to Arabic–English Legal
Translation: The Role of Comparable/Parallel Texts 115
Mohammed Mediouni
1. Introduction 115
2. Legal Translation Between Subject Field and Function 116
3. Legal Translation and Parallel/Comparable Texts 120
4. Teaching Legal Arabic–English Translation Through
Comparable/Parallel Texts 127
5. Case Study: Translation of a Bilateral Agreement from
Arabic into English 128
6. Testing the Relevance of Parallel/Comparable Texts 139
7. Conclusion 144
Appendix 1 145
Appendix 2 149
Appendix 3 151
Appendix 4 152
Appendix 5 158
Appendix 6 160
7 Translating Colour Metaphors: A Cognitive Perspective 161
Sami Chatti
1. Introduction 161
2. The Continuum: Language, Culture and Translation 162
3. Conceptual Blending of Colour Metaphors 168
4. Conclusion 174
Concluding Remarks: The Turn of Translating (into) Arabic 177
Said Faiq
Index 182
Contributors
Associate Prof. Mustapha Taibi is Director of Academic Programme
(Languages, TESOL, Interpreting and Translation) at Western Sydney
University, Australia. He is the leader of the International Community Trans-
lation Research Group and Editor of Translation & Interpreting: The Inter national
Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research (www.trans-int.org). Since 2008
he has been on the New South Wales Regional Advisory Committee of the
National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).
Examples of his publications are Tarjamat Al-Khadamaat Al-Aammah (Community
Interpreting and Translation; Dar-Assalam, 2011), ‘Public Service Translation’ in
The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies (ed. K. Malmkjaer and K. Windle;
Oxford University Press, 2011), and Community Translation (co-authored with
Uldis Ozolins; Bloomsbury, 2016).
Emeritus Prof. Stuart Campbell was Pro Vice Chancellor (Learning and
Teaching) at Western Sydney University, Australia. During his career at
WSU (and its predecessors) he held numerous management positions, includ-
ing foundation Head of the School of Languages and Linguistics. He has a
track record of leading change and development in learning and teaching,
including establishing programmes in languages, interpreting/translation
and teacher education. Stuart’s main research specialisation is the psycholin-
guistics of translation. In the field of translation studies, he is internationally
known for his work in developing psycholinguistic models of translation
competence as the basis for curriculum and assessment.
Prof. Said Faiq, FRSA, is Professor of Intercultural Studies and Translation
at the American University of Sharjah (UAE). His positions there have
included Chair/Head of Department (2003–7, 2009–10) and Director of the
Graduate Programme in Translation and Interpreting (2002–11). Currently
he is a visiting professor at Exeter University (UK), but he has worked in
Africa, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom (Salford University, 1990–
2003). At Salford, he was director of studies for undergraduate and graduate
programmes in Arabic/English translation and interpreting. Previously, he
was a visiting lecturer in applied linguistics at Leeds University (1996–98).
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He has served as consultant to private and public organizations for educa-
tional and related sectors and serves on a number of academic editorial and
consultancy boards/agencies. An established figure in intercultural and
translation studies and allied areas, he has directed and examined graduate
research (e.g. Cambridge, McGill). His publications include Agency and
Patronage in Eastern Translatology (co-edited with Ahmed Ankit, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2015), Culguage in/of Translation from Arabic (co-edited
with Ovidi Carbonnell and Ali Almanna; Lincom, 2014), Beyond Denotation
in Arabic Translation (co-edited with Allen Clark; Sayyab Books, 2010),
Cultures in Dialogue: A Translational Perspective (Ati-Academic, 2010), Trans-
lated: Translation and Cultural Manipulation (University Press of America,
2007), Identity and Representation in Intercultural Communication (IAICS,
2006), and Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic (Multilingual
Matters, 2004).
Dr Ahmad Qadi is an Assistant Professor in Translation at Umm Al-Qura
University (Mecca, Saudi Arabia) and Deputy Dean of the Custodian of the
Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research. In 2011 he com-
pleted his doctoral dissertation, Language services for pilgrims to the holy city of
Makkah, Saudi Arabia, which is the first study on interpreting and transla-
tion services provided during the annual pilgrimage.
Dr Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui is a Senior Lecturer in Translation
and Interpreting at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. He teaches
graduate courses on translation in Spain and Italy (La Sapienza), with a spe-
cial interest in legal translation and migration. He has been a visiting profes-
sor in Italy, Sweden, Egypt, Bosnia and Morocco, among other countries. He
has published more than 100 journal papers and book chapters on linguistics,
translation studies, and critical discourse analysis. His most recent works
include La Imagen del Otro: Lo Árabe en la Prensa Española (Instituto Egipcio de
Estudios Islámico, 2009); Traductología y Traducción (IEHL, 2012) and Escuela
e Inmigración: la Experiencia Española (Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e
Iberoamericanos de la Universidad de Varsovia, 2012). He is a member of
several editorial boards and is involved in several research projects related to
translation and international migration.
Dr Catherine Way is a Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of
Granada, Spain, and lead researcher of the AVANTI research group. She has
published on legal translation, co-edited several books, is a member of the
Editorial Board of the journal Puentes, and until recently was the editor of The
Interpreter and Translator Trainer (she remains on its editorial board). She is a
member of the Advisory Board of Fachsprache, ILLD, IJLTCT, and the book
series Aprende a traducir and has written peer reviews for several publishers.
She recently co-edited the Proceedings of the EST Conference for Benjamins.
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Her main fields of research are legal translation, translator training and court
interpreting.
Dr Naima Ilhami is an external expert trainer in the Professional Master in
Translation of the University of Granada, Spain. She has been a member of
the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the same University, where she
has taught Arabic–Spanish translation for four years. She is a freelance trans-
lator of Arabic, French and Spanish and a member of the AVANTI research
group. Her main fields of research are curriculum design, Arabic translator
training and legal translation into Arabic.
Dr Mohammed Mediouni is Head of the English Section at King Fahd
High School of Translation (Tangier, Morocco). He holds a doctorate in
English Linguistics from l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). His research
interests include terminology, lexicography, legal translation, and translation
studies. His recent publications include ‘Can dictionaries (monolingual or
bilingual) help translators overcome collocation pitfalls?’ in Turjuman 22:1,
Actes du Colloque ‘Traduction et Lexicographie’ (April 2013).
Dr Sami Chatti is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at King Abdulaziz
University, Saudi Arabia, and a certified translator in English, French and
Arabic. He holds a Doctorate and a Master in English Linguistics from the
University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, and obtained a second Master in translation
from the ESIT School of Interpreters and Translators in Paris. His research
interests include cognitive semantics, translation studies and corpus linguis-
tics. He has recently published a book on the Semantics of English Causative
Verbs (Paf, 2012), and contributed several articles to specialised journals in
linguistics and translation. Currently, he is a member of the Tunisian Centre
of Translation and coordinator of the translation programme at King
Abdulaziz University.