Hala Sharkas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5946512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hala Sharkas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hala |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharkas |
| SIGNATURE | SHARKAS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3860-5454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translating taboo language in Arabic game localisation
This study investigates the translation of profanity in the Arabic localisation of The Witcher III (CD Projekt Red 2015), focusing on cutscenes and in-game dialogue. A parallel corpus of 300,000 English words and 265,000 Arabic words was studied using concordance analysis to identify strategies for translating profane expressions. The findings reveal a predominant use of euphemism (52%) and taboo-to-non-taboo substitution (34%), with deletion acc…
Title translation in documentary films
Titles have multiple functions, including attracting the audience to engage with the content. Maintaining these functions across languages and cultures poses challenges for translators. This study investigates the translation techniques employed in translating documentary film titles and examines the extent to which the resulting translations fulfill their referential and appellative functions from the target audience’s perspective. For that purp…
Potential Use of ChatGPT-4 for Translating the Emirati Dialect Into English
For translators and conventional machine systems, Arabic dialects pose translation challenges including scarce linguistic resources and the complexity of nonstandard Arabic. However, large language models (LLMs) are able to understand contextual meaning and showcase promising translation capabilities. This study investigates ChatGPT-4’s understanding and translations of five excerpts, including 39 lexical items, from the Emirati dialect into Engl…
Transformations in the Translation of Hard and Soft News Reports into Arabic
This study examines local transformations as a translation strategy of the news report genre from English into Arabic. It analyzes the frequency of deletion, substitution, addition, and reorganization to identify any relation between applying these transformations and news topics. This is achieved via a textual analysis of a parallel corpus of 60 texts of hard and soft news reports in English and Arabic derived from two sources: the Reuters (news…
The Use of Transformations in Translating News Reports from English into Arabic
The Use of Transformations in Translating News Reports from English into Arabic. An article from journal Meta (60 e anniversaire. Les horizons de la traduction : retour vers le futur), on Érudit
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The Use of Transformations in Translating News Reports from English into Arabic
The Use of Transformations in Translating News Reports from English into Arabic. An article from journal Meta (60 e anniversaire. Les horizons de la traduction : retour vers le futur), on Érudit
Transformations in the Translation of Hard and Soft News Reports into Arabic
This study examines local transformations as a translation strategy of the news report genre from English into Arabic. It analyzes the frequency of deletion, substitution, addition, and reorganization to identify any relation between applying these transformations and news topics. This is achieved via a textual analysis of a parallel corpus of 60 texts of hard and soft news reports in English and Arabic derived from two sources: the Reuters (news…
Title translation in documentary films
Titles have multiple functions, including attracting the audience to engage with the content. Maintaining these functions across languages and cultures poses challenges for translators. This study investigates the translation techniques employed in translating documentary film titles and examines the extent to which the resulting translations fulfill their referential and appellative functions from the target audience’s perspective. For that purp…
Potential Use of ChatGPT-4 for Translating the Emirati Dialect Into English
For translators and conventional machine systems, Arabic dialects pose translation challenges including scarce linguistic resources and the complexity of nonstandard Arabic. However, large language models (LLMs) are able to understand contextual meaning and showcase promising translation capabilities. This study investigates ChatGPT-4’s understanding and translations of five excerpts, including 39 lexical items, from the Emirati dialect into Engl…
Translating taboo language in Arabic game localisation
This study investigates the translation of profanity in the Arabic localisation of The Witcher III (CD Projekt Red 2015), focusing on cutscenes and in-game dialogue. A parallel corpus of 300,000 English words and 265,000 Arabic words was studied using concordance analysis to identify strategies for translating profane expressions. The findings reveal a predominant use of euphemism (52%) and taboo-to-non-taboo substitution (34%), with deletion acc…
Translation Studies and Practices (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (1 works)