Mohd Nour Al Salem
Biographic Data
| ID | 6479480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohd Nour Al Salem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohd Nour |
| FAMILY NAME | Al Salem |
| SIGNATURE | AL SALEM M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7007-6444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How AI Translation Personas Reframe Diplomatic Texts
This study explores how persona prompting in AI translation systems, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT (GPT-4o), shapes politically sensitive discourse. By assigning translation personas such as “diplomat” and “politician,” the AI produced distinct Arabic renderings of six controversial statements by Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Drawing on Descriptive Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, and…
AI-powered translation of Arabic idioms into English
The study investigates how ChatGPT translates Arabic idioms into English, focusing on translation strategies, error types, and degrees of figurative preservation. A purposive corpus of 26 Arabic idioms was compiled, evenly divided between 13 transparent and 13 opaque expressions following Moon’s distinction, and verified against lexicographic sources to ensure their conventional meaning and cultural authenticity. Translations were produced under …
Preventive Pragmatics in Jordanian Arabic: Regulating Fear, Belief, and the Unseen
This article examines how speakers of Jordanian Arabic pragmatically regulate discourse about supernatural entities known as jinn, treating such discourse as a socially consequential domain where fear, normativity, and belief intersect. Drawing on ethnographically grounded interactional data, the study identifies a structured repertoire of preventive pragmatic acts, including apotropaic invocations, Qurʾanic supplications, metapragmatic prohibiti…
Cultural nuances in subtitling the religious discourse marker wallah in Jordanian drama into English
This study examines the strategies and challenges of subtitling the religious discourse marker والله wallah (by God) in Jordanian Arabic drama on Netflix. Two works, the series Jinn (2019) and the film Theeb (2014), are chosen as the corpus of the data. The study analyses the pragmatic functions of the religious marker wallah , which Arabs usually use to swear to God in different contexts and examines its English subtitles. The theoretical framew…
Revisiting Kabardian Phonology: A Syllabic Analysis
This paper provides an autosegmental analysis of phonological alternations in Kabardian, an Abhkaz-Adyghean language. It illustrates how several phonological re-write rules, postulated in Colarusso’s (1992) phonological analysis of Kabardian which, in some cases, lacks adequate explanation, may be uniformly reinterpreted as instances of mapping between the segmental tier and the skeletal tier in an autosegmental approach. In doing so, this paper …
Errors in Arabic-English Translation of Documents from the Department of Lands and Survey in Jordan
Translation of cognate accusative from Arabic to English: The case of Call of the Curlew
The cognate accusative (CA) in Arabic grammar is a unique structure that has no direct equivalent in English. This paper analyses the various strategies and procedures that the translator used to translate CA instances and assesses the success of these strategies. The significance of the study lies in its attempt to explore the complexities inherent in the CA when translated from Arabic into English, as well as the special difficulties accruing t…
The efficacy of the type of instruction on second language pronunciation acquisition
This study investigates the efficacy of the type of instruction (i.e., perception-based vs. production-based) on second language (L2) pronunciation acquisition in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To achieve this objective, 60 tertiary-level Jordanian learners of English were recruited and put into two groups (30 learners in each group). Group A received 6 weeks of perception-based instruction on both segmental and suprasegmental as…
The Translation of Quranic Metaphorical Expressions From Arabic Into English
The current study aims at assessing the translation of metaphors in three English translations of the Holy Quran, namely, Al-Hilali & Khan (2000), Y. Ali (2004), and Abdel Haleem (2005). In particular, it investigates the translation strategies adopted by the three translators to render ten Quranic metaphorical expressions into English based on Newmark’s (1988) metaphor translation strategies. Each Quranic metaphor is examined in its context base…
On English translation variation of similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran
This study aims to explore the difficulties involved in translating similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran from Arabic into English.It specifically investigates 21 plural nouns derived from seven singular nouns in the Holy Quran and discusses their exegetic contexts and translation into English.To achieve this aim, the study tracks singular nouns where three plurals are derived from each of them.The meaning of each singular noun is looked up in A…
‘Wife’, ‘woman’, and ‘companion’: A semantic message for translators of matrimony in the Holy Quran
This paper explores the use of three words used for a female spouse in the Holy Quran: wife, woman and companion. Specifically, it seeks to find if there is a semantic difference between these three terms and the characteristics that determine their classification. The data were collected from all the Quranic verses in which these terms appear. The terms themselves were clustered into specific groups and analyzed in their contexts, i.e. the verse…
A cross-cultural analysis of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic
Congratulating others is an essential aspect of human social interaction and a speech act that is realised differently in languages. This study aims to investigate the pragmalinguistic realisations of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic (JA) by comparing the strategies that Kabyle-speaking and JA-speaking students employ when offering congratulations. The data are analysed with reference to social status, gender and cu…
Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts
A cross-cultural analysis of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic
Congratulating others is an essential aspect of human social interaction and a speech act that is realised differently in languages. This study aims to investigate the pragmalinguistic realisations of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic (JA) by comparing the strategies that Kabyle-speaking and JA-speaking students employ when offering congratulations. The data are analysed with reference to social status, gender and cu…
Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts
The efficacy of the type of instruction on second language pronunciation acquisition
This study investigates the efficacy of the type of instruction (i.e., perception-based vs. production-based) on second language (L2) pronunciation acquisition in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To achieve this objective, 60 tertiary-level Jordanian learners of English were recruited and put into two groups (30 learners in each group). Group A received 6 weeks of perception-based instruction on both segmental and suprasegmental as…
The Translation of Quranic Metaphorical Expressions From Arabic Into English
The current study aims at assessing the translation of metaphors in three English translations of the Holy Quran, namely, Al-Hilali & Khan (2000), Y. Ali (2004), and Abdel Haleem (2005). In particular, it investigates the translation strategies adopted by the three translators to render ten Quranic metaphorical expressions into English based on Newmark’s (1988) metaphor translation strategies. Each Quranic metaphor is examined in its context base…
On English translation variation of similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran
This study aims to explore the difficulties involved in translating similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran from Arabic into English.It specifically investigates 21 plural nouns derived from seven singular nouns in the Holy Quran and discusses their exegetic contexts and translation into English.To achieve this aim, the study tracks singular nouns where three plurals are derived from each of them.The meaning of each singular noun is looked up in A…
‘Wife’, ‘woman’, and ‘companion’: A semantic message for translators of matrimony in the Holy Quran
This paper explores the use of three words used for a female spouse in the Holy Quran: wife, woman and companion. Specifically, it seeks to find if there is a semantic difference between these three terms and the characteristics that determine their classification. The data were collected from all the Quranic verses in which these terms appear. The terms themselves were clustered into specific groups and analyzed in their contexts, i.e. the verse…
Revisiting Kabardian Phonology: A Syllabic Analysis
This paper provides an autosegmental analysis of phonological alternations in Kabardian, an Abhkaz-Adyghean language. It illustrates how several phonological re-write rules, postulated in Colarusso’s (1992) phonological analysis of Kabardian which, in some cases, lacks adequate explanation, may be uniformly reinterpreted as instances of mapping between the segmental tier and the skeletal tier in an autosegmental approach. In doing so, this paper …
Errors in Arabic-English Translation of Documents from the Department of Lands and Survey in Jordan
Translation of cognate accusative from Arabic to English: The case of Call of the Curlew
The cognate accusative (CA) in Arabic grammar is a unique structure that has no direct equivalent in English. This paper analyses the various strategies and procedures that the translator used to translate CA instances and assesses the success of these strategies. The significance of the study lies in its attempt to explore the complexities inherent in the CA when translated from Arabic into English, as well as the special difficulties accruing t…
Cultural nuances in subtitling the religious discourse marker wallah in Jordanian drama into English
This study examines the strategies and challenges of subtitling the religious discourse marker والله wallah (by God) in Jordanian Arabic drama on Netflix. Two works, the series Jinn (2019) and the film Theeb (2014), are chosen as the corpus of the data. The study analyses the pragmatic functions of the religious marker wallah , which Arabs usually use to swear to God in different contexts and examines its English subtitles. The theoretical framew…
How AI Translation Personas Reframe Diplomatic Texts
This study explores how persona prompting in AI translation systems, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT (GPT-4o), shapes politically sensitive discourse. By assigning translation personas such as “diplomat” and “politician,” the AI produced distinct Arabic renderings of six controversial statements by Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Drawing on Descriptive Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, and…
AI-powered translation of Arabic idioms into English
The study investigates how ChatGPT translates Arabic idioms into English, focusing on translation strategies, error types, and degrees of figurative preservation. A purposive corpus of 26 Arabic idioms was compiled, evenly divided between 13 transparent and 13 opaque expressions following Moon’s distinction, and verified against lexicographic sources to ensure their conventional meaning and cultural authenticity. Translations were produced under …
Preventive Pragmatics in Jordanian Arabic: Regulating Fear, Belief, and the Unseen
This article examines how speakers of Jordanian Arabic pragmatically regulate discourse about supernatural entities known as jinn, treating such discourse as a socially consequential domain where fear, normativity, and belief intersect. Drawing on ethnographically grounded interactional data, the study identifies a structured repertoire of preventive pragmatic acts, including apotropaic invocations, Qurʾanic supplications, metapragmatic prohibiti…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Arabic (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works)