Abdullah Shakir
Biographic Data
| ID | 1623921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdullah Shakir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdullah |
| FAMILY NAME | Shakir |
| SIGNATURE | SHAKIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yarmouk University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When the Focus of the Text is Blurred
This study aims to investigate the effect of missing the pragmatic impact of two textual components, viz., conjunctives and key lexical items, on the typological focus of the source text in the process of simultaneous interpreting from Arabic into English. The source text assumes a hortative function which calls into the recipient's active socio-historical memory, events and experiences comparable to those addressed in the text. The investigation…
Reference and Representation in Translation
This study investigates the effect of schematic knowledge on the appropriateness and communicative acceptability of the translation rendered of four ambiguous contextless texts. The four texts (a road sign and three advertisements) were translated in two separate sessions by twenty-eight students pursuing a B.A. in English language and literature. In the first session, the students were provided with the texts decontextualized: while in the secon…
The Translation of Advertisements
L'auteur presente les résultats d'une recherche menée auprès de ses étudiants pour déterminer à quel point ils sont conscients de certains types de connaissances. À partir d'exercices de traduction publicitaire, il évalue le degré de connaissance des étudiants concernant les contraintes de registre et les connaissances schématiques sous-tendues par I'arrière-plan culturel du texte de départ
Sound and sight effect in Quranic translation
The aim of this article is to highlight a discoursal aspect which has received a modicum of attention on the part of researchers who have studied ‘icjaz’ (inimitability) of the Quran, and the problems this aspect poses for translators. This study, thus, focuses on the notion of translation equivalence, and expands the research to investigate the significance of sound and sight effects as integral elements in the meanings of context‐bound Quranic …
Failing to grasp the message
Fifteen M.A. (Translation) students were asked to interpret an English political text into Arabic. The text deals with an extremely controversial topic in the Arab world: arabicising instruction in Arab universities and the pressure Islamists exercise for promoting the use of Arabic only as the medium of instruction. The text contains a number of contextbound lexical items which demand that the interpreter reach behind the surface structure of th…
Targeting lexicon in interpreting
The present study shows that student interpreters in the Master's Translation Program at Yarmouk University (Jordan) suffer serious deficiencies in English language proficiency in general and lexical competence in particular when interpreting from Arabic into English. The results of the renditions of ten subjects indicate that 70% of the renderings of 8 lexical items in an Arabic newspaper editorial were inappropriate. The inappropriate rendering…
Coherence in EFL Student‐Written Texts
What EFL school teachers view as most harmful to coherence in their student‐written texts is an area which has received very little attention from EFL researchers in the Arab world. This article aims to explore this area and to identify the aspects of focus of a group of EFL teachers in Jordan in evaluating a student‐written text for coherence. Two EFL texts of general expository nature, drawn from a corpus of 45 texts written by first‐year stude…
The Translation of Advertisements
L'auteur presente les résultats d'une recherche menée auprès de ses étudiants pour déterminer à quel point ils sont conscients de certains types de connaissances. À partir d'exercices de traduction publicitaire, il évalue le degré de connaissance des étudiants concernant les contraintes de registre et les connaissances schématiques sous-tendues par I'arrière-plan culturel du texte de départ
Targeting lexicon in interpreting
The present study shows that student interpreters in the Master's Translation Program at Yarmouk University (Jordan) suffer serious deficiencies in English language proficiency in general and lexical competence in particular when interpreting from Arabic into English. The results of the renditions of ten subjects indicate that 70% of the renderings of 8 lexical items in an Arabic newspaper editorial were inappropriate. The inappropriate rendering…
Coherence in EFL Student‐Written Texts
What EFL school teachers view as most harmful to coherence in their student‐written texts is an area which has received very little attention from EFL researchers in the Arab world. This article aims to explore this area and to identify the aspects of focus of a group of EFL teachers in Jordan in evaluating a student‐written text for coherence. Two EFL texts of general expository nature, drawn from a corpus of 45 texts written by first‐year stude…
Coherence in EFL Student‐Written Texts
What EFL school teachers view as most harmful to coherence in their student‐written texts is an area which has received very little attention from EFL researchers in the Arab world. This article aims to explore this area and to identify the aspects of focus of a group of EFL teachers in Jordan in evaluating a student‐written text for coherence. Two EFL texts of general expository nature, drawn from a corpus of 45 texts written by first‐year stude…
Targeting lexicon in interpreting
The present study shows that student interpreters in the Master's Translation Program at Yarmouk University (Jordan) suffer serious deficiencies in English language proficiency in general and lexical competence in particular when interpreting from Arabic into English. The results of the renditions of ten subjects indicate that 70% of the renderings of 8 lexical items in an Arabic newspaper editorial were inappropriate. The inappropriate rendering…
Failing to grasp the message
Fifteen M.A. (Translation) students were asked to interpret an English political text into Arabic. The text deals with an extremely controversial topic in the Arab world: arabicising instruction in Arab universities and the pressure Islamists exercise for promoting the use of Arabic only as the medium of instruction. The text contains a number of contextbound lexical items which demand that the interpreter reach behind the surface structure of th…
Sound and sight effect in Quranic translation
The aim of this article is to highlight a discoursal aspect which has received a modicum of attention on the part of researchers who have studied ‘icjaz’ (inimitability) of the Quran, and the problems this aspect poses for translators. This study, thus, focuses on the notion of translation equivalence, and expands the research to investigate the significance of sound and sight effects as integral elements in the meanings of context‐bound Quranic …
When the Focus of the Text is Blurred
This study aims to investigate the effect of missing the pragmatic impact of two textual components, viz., conjunctives and key lexical items, on the typological focus of the source text in the process of simultaneous interpreting from Arabic into English. The source text assumes a hortative function which calls into the recipient's active socio-historical memory, events and experiences comparable to those addressed in the text. The investigation…
Reference and Representation in Translation
This study investigates the effect of schematic knowledge on the appropriateness and communicative acceptability of the translation rendered of four ambiguous contextless texts. The four texts (a road sign and three advertisements) were translated in two separate sessions by twenty-eight students pursuing a B.A. in English language and literature. In the first session, the students were provided with the texts decontextualized: while in the secon…
The Translation of Advertisements
L'auteur presente les résultats d'une recherche menée auprès de ses étudiants pour déterminer à quel point ils sont conscients de certains types de connaissances. À partir d'exercices de traduction publicitaire, il évalue le degré de connaissance des étudiants concernant les contraintes de registre et les connaissances schématiques sous-tendues par I'arrière-plan culturel du texte de départ
Psychology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Interpreter (2 works)