Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5946481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad Ahmad |
| FAMILY NAME | Thawabteh |
| SIGNATURE | THAWABTEH M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al-Quds University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0434-6730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bridging languages and cultures
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) introduced by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 were meant to be universal and applicable to all developing and developed countries, establishing a global framework and a common ground for all people worldwide. Despite their global significance, limited scholarly attention has been paid to the translation of the SDGs into Arabic and the implications of such translations for meaning. The current study careful…
Recontextualization of sustainable development discourse
Established by the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed to constitute a universal framework to guide all nations and communities. In an effort to make the goals more accessible, they were translated into five other languages. This study examined the translation of the UN’s SDGs discourse from English into Arabic. It employs a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach as the primary analytical framework. It …
Translation and the Political Economy of Global Knowledge Production
The translation of contemporary Arab thought has received scant scholarly attention in recent translation theory. This paper explores the status of translating contemporary Arab thought, offering a macro socio-economic analysis based on the basic assumption that translation forms a global system. Translation production and reception processes occur between asymmetric languages in an interdependent “world translation system,” organized by a core-p…
Two Receptive Audiences for the Same Translated Text
Translation Studies comprises different approaches to translation, e.g., linguistics-oriented, functionalist, discourse register analysis, philosophical, reception theory, among many others. As for reception theory, it is found that when and where a given text is translated and the influences it is likely to exert on its audience is very useful as an approach to translation. The time and place of the text reception then tends to be significant. T…
Paremiology of Palestinian Month-Related Proverbs
Proverbs are deemed to be the products or by-products of the culture, a predominant type of which is, what we may term, Month-Related Proverbs (MRPs). The present article examines sociolinguistic (MRPs) utilised by the doyen(ne) of Palestinians, consisting of a corpus of thirty MRPs which are drawn from ṣaḥīfat al-Quds (Al-Quds Daily Newspaper), Dictionary of Palestinian Proverbs (1999) by Lubani and A Dictionary of Modern Lebanese Proverbs, with…
Biased Unbiased Translation
The present paper examines two notions in the ideology of translation, namely biased and unbiased tones as can be illustrated in 10 examples taken from BBC website along with their translations into Arabic by BBC Arabic in 2018 and 2019. The paper first argues that BBC bulging with news items and their translations provided by BBC Arabic should have the same inherent qualities like reciprocal biased and/or unbiased tone as both channels presumabl…
Post-graduate Translation Curriculum and Employability
Translator training has made a significant contribution to the welfare of translation in the job market all over the world. The issue of curriculum development has always been part and parcel of such training which is likely to pave the way for employability. This issue should then be given due attention in view of recent developments in the field of translation and technology, and the considerably larger and more robust job market. This article …
Addressing Coherence in English-Arabic Subtitling by Amateur Aficionados
Translation and Arabicisation within Tertiary Education Courses
Throughout history, the Arabic language has been buffeted by social and political upheavals, giving rise to the eclipse of the language. Nevertheless, the language has always enjoyed a decent revival for the sacrosanct and sublime status it has been accorded. The paper explores Arabicisation as one of the oldest and most frequent institutionalised methods to render foreign literatures and sciences into the Arabic language, with a view to giving r…
Translation and Crime
In subtitling, communication is seen as more than a matter of linguistic representation on screen. To relay the perceived meaning to the Target Language (TL) audience, other polysemiotic channels should then be taken into full consideration. This paper analyses a corpus of three scenes taken from a thriller entitled Crash (2004), broadcast on MBC4 satellite channel in 2010. The paper reveals that whilst the Source Language (SL) dialogue is highly…
The Semiotics of Third Language in Arabic-English Translation
The present paper explores how a third language is dealt with in the translation from Arabic into English, illustrated with al-Qamar il-Murabaʻ: Qiṣaṣ Ghrāibyia by Syrian writer Ghada as-Samman (1994), translated by Issa Boullata (1998) as ʻThe Square Moon: Supernatural Talesʼ (SMST). The paper adopts particularized a theoretical praxis approach. The paper argues that the third language does not occur in a vacuum, but within the boundaries of dis…
The Translatability of Interjections
This paper examines the translatability of Arabic interjections into English subtitling, illustrated with a subtitled Egyptian film, State Security subtitled by Arab Radio and Television (ART). Theoretical framework regarding both Audiovisual Translation (AVT) and interjections is first discussed. The significance of interjections is approached from the perspective of technical and translation paradigms. The study shows that although technical is…
The Semiotics of Third Language in Arabic-English Translation
The present paper explores how a third language is dealt with in the translation from Arabic into English, illustrated with al-Qamar il-Murabaʻ: Qiṣaṣ Ghrāibyia by Syrian writer Ghada as-Samman (1994), translated by Issa Boullata (1998) as ʻThe Square Moon: Supernatural Talesʼ (SMST). The paper adopts particularized a theoretical praxis approach. The paper argues that the third language does not occur in a vacuum, but within the boundaries of dis…
The Translatability of Interjections
This paper examines the translatability of Arabic interjections into English subtitling, illustrated with a subtitled Egyptian film, State Security subtitled by Arab Radio and Television (ART). Theoretical framework regarding both Audiovisual Translation (AVT) and interjections is first discussed. The significance of interjections is approached from the perspective of technical and translation paradigms. The study shows that although technical is…
The Semiotics of Third Language in Arabic-English Translation
The present paper explores how a third language is dealt with in the translation from Arabic into English, illustrated with al-Qamar il-Murabaʻ: Qiṣaṣ Ghrāibyia by Syrian writer Ghada as-Samman (1994), translated by Issa Boullata (1998) as ʻThe Square Moon: Supernatural Talesʼ (SMST). The paper adopts particularized a theoretical praxis approach. The paper argues that the third language does not occur in a vacuum, but within the boundaries of dis…
Translation and Arabicisation within Tertiary Education Courses
Throughout history, the Arabic language has been buffeted by social and political upheavals, giving rise to the eclipse of the language. Nevertheless, the language has always enjoyed a decent revival for the sacrosanct and sublime status it has been accorded. The paper explores Arabicisation as one of the oldest and most frequent institutionalised methods to render foreign literatures and sciences into the Arabic language, with a view to giving r…
Translation and Crime
In subtitling, communication is seen as more than a matter of linguistic representation on screen. To relay the perceived meaning to the Target Language (TL) audience, other polysemiotic channels should then be taken into full consideration. This paper analyses a corpus of three scenes taken from a thriller entitled Crash (2004), broadcast on MBC4 satellite channel in 2010. The paper reveals that whilst the Source Language (SL) dialogue is highly…
Addressing Coherence in English-Arabic Subtitling by Amateur Aficionados
Post-graduate Translation Curriculum and Employability
Translator training has made a significant contribution to the welfare of translation in the job market all over the world. The issue of curriculum development has always been part and parcel of such training which is likely to pave the way for employability. This issue should then be given due attention in view of recent developments in the field of translation and technology, and the considerably larger and more robust job market. This article …
Biased Unbiased Translation
The present paper examines two notions in the ideology of translation, namely biased and unbiased tones as can be illustrated in 10 examples taken from BBC website along with their translations into Arabic by BBC Arabic in 2018 and 2019. The paper first argues that BBC bulging with news items and their translations provided by BBC Arabic should have the same inherent qualities like reciprocal biased and/or unbiased tone as both channels presumabl…
Paremiology of Palestinian Month-Related Proverbs
Proverbs are deemed to be the products or by-products of the culture, a predominant type of which is, what we may term, Month-Related Proverbs (MRPs). The present article examines sociolinguistic (MRPs) utilised by the doyen(ne) of Palestinians, consisting of a corpus of thirty MRPs which are drawn from ṣaḥīfat al-Quds (Al-Quds Daily Newspaper), Dictionary of Palestinian Proverbs (1999) by Lubani and A Dictionary of Modern Lebanese Proverbs, with…
Two Receptive Audiences for the Same Translated Text
Translation Studies comprises different approaches to translation, e.g., linguistics-oriented, functionalist, discourse register analysis, philosophical, reception theory, among many others. As for reception theory, it is found that when and where a given text is translated and the influences it is likely to exert on its audience is very useful as an approach to translation. The time and place of the text reception then tends to be significant. T…
Translation and the Political Economy of Global Knowledge Production
The translation of contemporary Arab thought has received scant scholarly attention in recent translation theory. This paper explores the status of translating contemporary Arab thought, offering a macro socio-economic analysis based on the basic assumption that translation forms a global system. Translation production and reception processes occur between asymmetric languages in an interdependent “world translation system,” organized by a core-p…
Bridging languages and cultures
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) introduced by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 were meant to be universal and applicable to all developing and developed countries, establishing a global framework and a common ground for all people worldwide. Despite their global significance, limited scholarly attention has been paid to the translation of the SDGs into Arabic and the implications of such translations for meaning. The current study careful…
Recontextualization of sustainable development discourse
Established by the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed to constitute a universal framework to guide all nations and communities. In an effort to make the goals more accessible, they were translated into five other languages. This study examined the translation of the UN’s SDGs discourse from English into Arabic. It employs a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach as the primary analytical framework. It …
Translation Studies and Practices (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Arabic (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)