Dana W Muwafi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4539347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana W Muwafi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana W |
| FAMILY NAME | Muwafi |
| SIGNATURE | MUWAFI D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7304-7748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Euphemisms for Same-Gender Relations in the Holy Quran and their English Translations
To support their argument about the position of Islam on same-gender relations, ‘Muslim’ proponents of these relations claim that there is no specific Arabic designation for these relations in the Holy Quran. Although it does not explicitly name them, the Quran addresses this topic euphemistically. This study aims to identify the Quranic euphemisms for same-gender relations and examine the Quranic strategies used for indicating them. Furthermore,…
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A Hallidayan transitivity analysis
Research in communication studies has suggested that Al-Jazeera produces different versions of news stories for different audiences. Yet, examining the linguistic means used to create these versions has remained under-researched. Drawing on Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992) and Halliday's Transitivity Model (1985), this study aims at exploring how Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) discursively represented the particip…
Political self-praise in Clinton–Trump presidential debates
The speech act of political self-praise has received scant attention in East Asian contexts, unlike other speech acts. This study aims to explore the strategies of self-praise used by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The 2016 US presidential debates were analysed quantitatively to examine if there are any differences in using self-praise strategies. This was followed by a qualitative analysis to explore how these strategies are linguistically re…
Encountering the Foreign in Alice in Wonderland and its Arabic Translations
This study examines Lewis Carroll’s Alice through the cultural glass of the Arabic translations of Alice in Wonderland by Amira Kiwan (2003), Shakir Nasr Al Deen (2012), Siham Bint Saniya (2013), and Nadia Al Kholy (2013), and of Through the Looking-Glass by Siham Bint Saniya (2013). It seeks to explore the engagement of several issues of language and meaning, and of foreignness and otherness, in both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-G…
Translation as a Social Activity: Towards a Bourdieusian Understanding of Pickthall’s Translation of the Quran
This paper argued for a fresh understanding of Pickthall’s The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation (1930) in light of Bourdieu’s sociological work. The main objective of this study was to examine Pickthall’s translation of the meaning of the Holy Quran utilizing Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological model that employs the key concepts of field, capital and doxa. By hypothesizing a field which could be called ‘the field of English t…
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A Hallidayan transitivity analysis
Research in communication studies has suggested that Al-Jazeera produces different versions of news stories for different audiences. Yet, examining the linguistic means used to create these versions has remained under-researched. Drawing on Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992) and Halliday's Transitivity Model (1985), this study aims at exploring how Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) discursively represented the particip…
Translation as a Social Activity: Towards a Bourdieusian Understanding of Pickthall’s Translation of the Quran
This paper argued for a fresh understanding of Pickthall’s The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation (1930) in light of Bourdieu’s sociological work. The main objective of this study was to examine Pickthall’s translation of the meaning of the Holy Quran utilizing Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological model that employs the key concepts of field, capital and doxa. By hypothesizing a field which could be called ‘the field of English t…
Encountering the Foreign in Alice in Wonderland and its Arabic Translations
This study examines Lewis Carroll’s Alice through the cultural glass of the Arabic translations of Alice in Wonderland by Amira Kiwan (2003), Shakir Nasr Al Deen (2012), Siham Bint Saniya (2013), and Nadia Al Kholy (2013), and of Through the Looking-Glass by Siham Bint Saniya (2013). It seeks to explore the engagement of several issues of language and meaning, and of foreignness and otherness, in both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-G…
Political self-praise in Clinton–Trump presidential debates
The speech act of political self-praise has received scant attention in East Asian contexts, unlike other speech acts. This study aims to explore the strategies of self-praise used by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The 2016 US presidential debates were analysed quantitatively to examine if there are any differences in using self-praise strategies. This was followed by a qualitative analysis to explore how these strategies are linguistically re…
Euphemisms for Same-Gender Relations in the Holy Quran and their English Translations
To support their argument about the position of Islam on same-gender relations, ‘Muslim’ proponents of these relations claim that there is no specific Arabic designation for these relations in the Holy Quran. Although it does not explicitly name them, the Quran addresses this topic euphemistically. This study aims to identify the Quranic euphemisms for same-gender relations and examine the Quranic strategies used for indicating them. Furthermore,…
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A Hallidayan transitivity analysis
Research in communication studies has suggested that Al-Jazeera produces different versions of news stories for different audiences. Yet, examining the linguistic means used to create these versions has remained under-researched. Drawing on Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992) and Halliday's Transitivity Model (1985), this study aims at exploring how Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) discursively represented the particip…
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