Mansour Amini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3670605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mansour Amini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mansour |
| FAMILY NAME | Amini |
| SIGNATURE | AMINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2149-4604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translating Culture-specific Items on the Jordan Tourism Board Website
This study examines the translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) on the Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) website, focusing on whether translations tend toward domestication or foreignization and how Jordanian culture is represented for international audiences. A mixed-methods approach was employed, with the JTB website serving as the case study. A total of 1,178 CSIs were extracted, categorized according to Newmark’s (1988) taxonomy, and analyzed i…
Examining translation errors and cultural misrepresentation in dream of the red chamber
Negotiating Institutional Hierarchy
This corpus-based study investigates the translation of modality from English to Chinese in the high-stakes context of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). Grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the analysis employs a parallel corpus of trial transcripts to examine the distribution of modal expressions across orientations and values in the source language, and how translation of modality reshapes interpersonal…
Translating Culture-Specific Items in The True Story of Ah Q
This study evaluates how multimodal large language models translate Chinese culture-specific items by comparing GPT-4o, KIMI, DeepL, and Google Translate. Building on a curated dataset of 30 CSIs from The True Story of Ah Q, each paired with two human reference translations and culturally relevant images, we assess three dimensions of quality: Cultural Adequacy, Linguistic Naturalness, and Terminology Accuracy. GPT-4o and KIMI are tested under te…
Proposing a framework for ethical use of AI in academic writing based on a conceptual review
Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education), this paper addresses the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in academic writing. While AI tools offer unprecedented opportunities for personalized learning and efficiency, their unregulated use raises significant ethical challenges. Through a systematic conceptual review, this study synthesizes existing ethical frameworks and identifies gaps in practical guida…
Exploring Translators’ Perceptions of Translation Decisions in Courtroom Translation
Unveiling Certainty and Doubt
Analysing individual racism portrayal in Hanna Alkaf’s novel The Weight of Our Sky
This study analyzes Hanna Alkaf’s novel The Weight of Our Sky, concentrating on individual racism within the socio-historical context of Malaysia during the May 13, 1969, incident. Through thematic analysis, the study uncovers how Alkaf illustrates racial discrimination via the characters’ behaviors, interactions, and internal conflicts. The depiction of individual racism in the novel encompasses overt and subtle forms of prejudice, although it d…
Exploring Challenges and Solutions in English-to-Chinese Courtroom Translation
This study investigates translation challenges and solutions in English-to-Chinese courtroom translation from the perspective of translators, specifically within the context of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), using Translatorial Action Theory (TAT) as the theoretical framework. Through semi-structured interviews with nine experienced legal translators and rigorous thematic analysis, the research identifies four core …
The application of Juliane House’s translation quality assessment model in the English translation of Yu Hua’s ‘Yanre de xiatian’
The quality of some Chinese literary translations has raised concerns among some translation scholars. This qualitative study presents an examination of Juliane House’s latest translation quality assessment model in evaluating the quality of ‘Sweltering Summer’, the English translation of ‘Yanre de xiatian’, a short Chinese story. House’s model reveals that the translation quality is dependent on the matching degree of the textual profile and fun…
Users’ quality expectations and their correspondence with the realistic features of translation applications
With the accelerating pace of technological developments, translation applications have emerged as the latest trend of machine translation to serve users’ needs for various purposes such as study, work, travel, and entertainment. While the goal of every service, including translation, is to attain user satisfaction, a greater understanding of users’ expectations is essential to improve translation applications and enhance the user experience. Thi…
A corpus analysis of cohesion in World Health Organization speeches by the Director General on Covid-19 vaccination
Although cohesion and coherence of a speech are significant, and there is an array of studies exploring these elements, particularly political speeches, many still struggle to apply the correct grammar and lexical cohesion as well the correct thematic structure in speech construction. This study aims to investigate the cohesion and coherence of speeches that are constructed through textual metafunction using thematic structures and cohesive devic…
Humor translation
Audiovisual translation of humor has long been a challenge faced by translators. It is inevitable for translators to remove or reduce some of the humorous effect in the target language despite their endeavor to preserve the humor elements. This qualitative study aimed to investigate the reasons behind the loss of humor in translation of the humorous scenes from an American comedy cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. Sperber and Wilson (1986)’s Relevan…
English to Chinese fansub translation of humour in The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
Humour is bounded by culture or language, and it involves shared knowledge and history between the sender and the receiver, which could make humour subtitling even more complicated. This study aimed at exploring the subtitling strategies used in fansub in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as the humour elements of source and target text in each humour, and the translation errors made in English to Chinese fansub. Humour ins…
English Language Anxiety
The level of foreign language anxiety and the factors leading to the English anxiety level among English students were explored using a sequential mixed method with semi-structured interviews and survey. The interview was the main research tool to learn about students’ coping strategies in dealing with English language anxiety, while the survey was aimed to provide additional information to support the qualitative data. The questionnaire and the …
Family Functioning and Attachment Among Young Adults in Western and Non-Western Societies
Family functioning (FF) is associated with patterns of adults' close relationship attachment, which works differently in western and non-western societies. In this study, the relationship between FF and attachment (A), as well as the difference in relationship between FF and A across western and non-western societies were examined. A total of 600 young adults (294 males, 306 females) were recruited from western and non-western societies through t…
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English Language Anxiety
The level of foreign language anxiety and the factors leading to the English anxiety level among English students were explored using a sequential mixed method with semi-structured interviews and survey. The interview was the main research tool to learn about students’ coping strategies in dealing with English language anxiety, while the survey was aimed to provide additional information to support the qualitative data. The questionnaire and the …
Family Functioning and Attachment Among Young Adults in Western and Non-Western Societies
Family functioning (FF) is associated with patterns of adults' close relationship attachment, which works differently in western and non-western societies. In this study, the relationship between FF and attachment (A), as well as the difference in relationship between FF and A across western and non-western societies were examined. A total of 600 young adults (294 males, 306 females) were recruited from western and non-western societies through t…
English to Chinese fansub translation of humour in The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
Humour is bounded by culture or language, and it involves shared knowledge and history between the sender and the receiver, which could make humour subtitling even more complicated. This study aimed at exploring the subtitling strategies used in fansub in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as the humour elements of source and target text in each humour, and the translation errors made in English to Chinese fansub. Humour ins…
A corpus analysis of cohesion in World Health Organization speeches by the Director General on Covid-19 vaccination
Although cohesion and coherence of a speech are significant, and there is an array of studies exploring these elements, particularly political speeches, many still struggle to apply the correct grammar and lexical cohesion as well the correct thematic structure in speech construction. This study aims to investigate the cohesion and coherence of speeches that are constructed through textual metafunction using thematic structures and cohesive devic…
Humor translation
Audiovisual translation of humor has long been a challenge faced by translators. It is inevitable for translators to remove or reduce some of the humorous effect in the target language despite their endeavor to preserve the humor elements. This qualitative study aimed to investigate the reasons behind the loss of humor in translation of the humorous scenes from an American comedy cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. Sperber and Wilson (1986)’s Relevan…
The application of Juliane House’s translation quality assessment model in the English translation of Yu Hua’s ‘Yanre de xiatian’
The quality of some Chinese literary translations has raised concerns among some translation scholars. This qualitative study presents an examination of Juliane House’s latest translation quality assessment model in evaluating the quality of ‘Sweltering Summer’, the English translation of ‘Yanre de xiatian’, a short Chinese story. House’s model reveals that the translation quality is dependent on the matching degree of the textual profile and fun…
Users’ quality expectations and their correspondence with the realistic features of translation applications
With the accelerating pace of technological developments, translation applications have emerged as the latest trend of machine translation to serve users’ needs for various purposes such as study, work, travel, and entertainment. While the goal of every service, including translation, is to attain user satisfaction, a greater understanding of users’ expectations is essential to improve translation applications and enhance the user experience. Thi…
Analysing individual racism portrayal in Hanna Alkaf’s novel The Weight of Our Sky
This study analyzes Hanna Alkaf’s novel The Weight of Our Sky, concentrating on individual racism within the socio-historical context of Malaysia during the May 13, 1969, incident. Through thematic analysis, the study uncovers how Alkaf illustrates racial discrimination via the characters’ behaviors, interactions, and internal conflicts. The depiction of individual racism in the novel encompasses overt and subtle forms of prejudice, although it d…
Exploring Challenges and Solutions in English-to-Chinese Courtroom Translation
This study investigates translation challenges and solutions in English-to-Chinese courtroom translation from the perspective of translators, specifically within the context of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), using Translatorial Action Theory (TAT) as the theoretical framework. Through semi-structured interviews with nine experienced legal translators and rigorous thematic analysis, the research identifies four core …
Translating Culture-specific Items on the Jordan Tourism Board Website
This study examines the translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) on the Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) website, focusing on whether translations tend toward domestication or foreignization and how Jordanian culture is represented for international audiences. A mixed-methods approach was employed, with the JTB website serving as the case study. A total of 1,178 CSIs were extracted, categorized according to Newmark’s (1988) taxonomy, and analyzed i…
Examining translation errors and cultural misrepresentation in dream of the red chamber
Negotiating Institutional Hierarchy
This corpus-based study investigates the translation of modality from English to Chinese in the high-stakes context of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). Grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the analysis employs a parallel corpus of trial transcripts to examine the distribution of modal expressions across orientations and values in the source language, and how translation of modality reshapes interpersonal…
Translating Culture-Specific Items in The True Story of Ah Q
This study evaluates how multimodal large language models translate Chinese culture-specific items by comparing GPT-4o, KIMI, DeepL, and Google Translate. Building on a curated dataset of 30 CSIs from The True Story of Ah Q, each paired with two human reference translations and culturally relevant images, we assess three dimensions of quality: Cultural Adequacy, Linguistic Naturalness, and Terminology Accuracy. GPT-4o and KIMI are tested under te…
Proposing a framework for ethical use of AI in academic writing based on a conceptual review
Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education), this paper addresses the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in academic writing. While AI tools offer unprecedented opportunities for personalized learning and efficiency, their unregulated use raises significant ethical challenges. Through a systematic conceptual review, this study synthesizes existing ethical frameworks and identifies gaps in practical guida…
Exploring Translators’ Perceptions of Translation Decisions in Courtroom Translation
Unveiling Certainty and Doubt
Translation Studies and Practices (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)