Raja Lahiani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6805379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raja Lahiani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raja |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahiani |
| SIGNATURE | LAHIANI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3774-8568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From sands to salons
This postcolonial analysis of William Jones’s groundbreaking English translation of the Mu‛allqāt (1782) – while praising Jones as an Orientalist – contends that his translation strategies often conformed source texts to Western paradigms. Shifting away from equivalence-based evaluations, this study explores how Jones integrated the Mu‛allqāt into neoclassical genres, adjusted narrative structures that were inconsistent with the Arabic tradition,…
Smurfing beyond translation
This study investigates localization strategies in the Arabic dubbing of The Smurfs animated series, focusing on the translation of idiomatic expressions and cultural references through a relevance-theoretical lens. By analyzing dubbed episodes, the research explores how translation optimizes relevance by balancing cognitive effects and processing effort in cultural and linguistic adaptation. The investigation centers on references to cultural he…
Beyond words
This study addresses the challenges of translating culture-specific nonverbal communication in literature, focusing on the complexities of conveying rich kinetic-visual imagery across languages. By examining 18 English and French translations of a sample verse, the research aims to explore how translators handle kinesic and oculesic elements intrinsic to the source text. The comparative analysis reveals that while many translators struggle to con…
Recreating relevance
This study uses relevance theory as an insightful heuristic model for translation quality assessment. As translation inherently involves communicating across contextual boundaries, the notion of relevance optimization continues to be a fruitful approach for research and practice. This investigation illuminates idioms as culturally embedded linguistic conventions, semantically abstruse, yet structurally crystallized. Idioms accrue fixed meanings w…
Translations of overtones in classical Arabic poetry
Languages possess different tools to intensify speech overtones. While the resulting effect is semantic, grammatical, phonological, or lexical devices may be used. Words can be motivated in three ways: phonetically, morphologically, and semantically. Phonological motivation is part of the fabric of classical poetry. This study is concerned with the language used in Arabic poetry, which is made sufficiently sonorant to reflect the psyche and emoti…
Aesthetic poetry and creative translations
This paper investigates the hermeneutic processes involved in translating instances of imagery in Arabic poetry into English across a period ranging between 1789 and 1993. It examines ten translations of two verse lines from Labīd’s Mu’allaqa . The paper does not aim to determine whether a given translation is correct—its purpose is, rather, to use translational hermeneutics as a key analytical tool to identify which translation products may be c…
Poetry in Translation
Style is the kernel of literariness. This study examines the translatability of pleonasm, a form of redundancy considered a standard rhetorical device in Arabic but usually avoided in Western languages. The study evaluates and compares English and French translations of a pleonastic Arabic verse line. An acceptable translation of this verse should provide an affective-stylistic equivalent that will capture and convey the same appeal as the source…
Unlocking the Secret of ‘Locksley Hall’
Despite its originality, Tennyson's poem ‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) shares considerable characteristics with the pre-Islamic Arabic poems the Mu‘allaqāt, namely those composed by Imru’ al-Qays and ‘Antara. The similarities include length, rhyme, metre, genre, themes and appeal, which this article compares in order to show that Tennyson adapts these source text resources to the concerns and subject matter of his own poem, and not for the purpose of tr…
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Poetry in Translation
Style is the kernel of literariness. This study examines the translatability of pleonasm, a form of redundancy considered a standard rhetorical device in Arabic but usually avoided in Western languages. The study evaluates and compares English and French translations of a pleonastic Arabic verse line. An acceptable translation of this verse should provide an affective-stylistic equivalent that will capture and convey the same appeal as the source…
Unlocking the Secret of ‘Locksley Hall’
Despite its originality, Tennyson's poem ‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) shares considerable characteristics with the pre-Islamic Arabic poems the Mu‘allaqāt, namely those composed by Imru’ al-Qays and ‘Antara. The similarities include length, rhyme, metre, genre, themes and appeal, which this article compares in order to show that Tennyson adapts these source text resources to the concerns and subject matter of his own poem, and not for the purpose of tr…
Aesthetic poetry and creative translations
This paper investigates the hermeneutic processes involved in translating instances of imagery in Arabic poetry into English across a period ranging between 1789 and 1993. It examines ten translations of two verse lines from Labīd’s Mu’allaqa . The paper does not aim to determine whether a given translation is correct—its purpose is, rather, to use translational hermeneutics as a key analytical tool to identify which translation products may be c…
Translations of overtones in classical Arabic poetry
Languages possess different tools to intensify speech overtones. While the resulting effect is semantic, grammatical, phonological, or lexical devices may be used. Words can be motivated in three ways: phonetically, morphologically, and semantically. Phonological motivation is part of the fabric of classical poetry. This study is concerned with the language used in Arabic poetry, which is made sufficiently sonorant to reflect the psyche and emoti…
Recreating relevance
This study uses relevance theory as an insightful heuristic model for translation quality assessment. As translation inherently involves communicating across contextual boundaries, the notion of relevance optimization continues to be a fruitful approach for research and practice. This investigation illuminates idioms as culturally embedded linguistic conventions, semantically abstruse, yet structurally crystallized. Idioms accrue fixed meanings w…
Smurfing beyond translation
This study investigates localization strategies in the Arabic dubbing of The Smurfs animated series, focusing on the translation of idiomatic expressions and cultural references through a relevance-theoretical lens. By analyzing dubbed episodes, the research explores how translation optimizes relevance by balancing cognitive effects and processing effort in cultural and linguistic adaptation. The investigation centers on references to cultural he…
Beyond words
This study addresses the challenges of translating culture-specific nonverbal communication in literature, focusing on the complexities of conveying rich kinetic-visual imagery across languages. By examining 18 English and French translations of a sample verse, the research aims to explore how translators handle kinesic and oculesic elements intrinsic to the source text. The comparative analysis reveals that while many translators struggle to con…
From sands to salons
This postcolonial analysis of William Jones’s groundbreaking English translation of the Mu‛allqāt (1782) – while praising Jones as an Orientalist – contends that his translation strategies often conformed source texts to Western paradigms. Shifting away from equivalence-based evaluations, this study explores how Jones integrated the Mu‛allqāt into neoclassical genres, adjusted narrative structures that were inconsistent with the Arabic tradition,…
Translation Studies and Practices (7 works) · Arabic (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Poetry (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)