Hamada Hassanein
Biographic Data
| ID | 973923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamada Hassanein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamada |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassanein |
| SIGNATURE | HASSANEIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3770-6405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pan-Arabic telemedical discourse
“Argument as War”
Between Human and Machine
Translating Noncanonical Ancillary Qur’anic Oppositions Into English
Translating the sacred in a so-called divine language has been shown to be so difficult and challenging a task for translators of the Bible or the Qur’an. The human reproduction of the divine product(ion) has biblically and qur’anically been found to raise (in)soluble challenges and (in)surmountable hurdles in bicultural and cross-cultural communication and transfer in translation. One great challenge or big obstacle thereof is the (un)transferab…
Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an
Among Muslims there is a dogmatic belief in the linguistic inimitability of Qur’anic discourse that places limitations on its translatability at different linguistic levels and constitutes a minefield of hurdles when translating it between incongruous and incommensurable languages. One understudied linguistic level is the lexical-semantic level and one unstudied issue is the frames and functions of ancillary antonymy in the Qur’anic discourse. Th…
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic
Less Form, More Meaning
Ellipsis pervades the Qur’anic discourse. One pervasive form of it is al-iẖtibāk (“interchangeable ellipsis”). In terms of the interface between Qur’anic exegesis and Arabic rhetoric, the phenomenon of al-iẖtibāk is far more than a rhetorically heuristic technique for surface-structure analysis. It is a fruitful tool for pragmasemantic inferences of discursive implicatures defined as a fundamental mode of text construction and a logical hermeneut…
Rendition of Noncanonical Opposition
Grammar and meaning, form and function, are two linguistic levels intrinsic and indispensable to reading and rendering the Qur’an, the Divine Word of Islamic Scripture, in a foreign tongue. Nida and de Waard’s (1986) ‘functional equivalence’, an amalgamation of formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence, posits that emphasis in translation activity and practice must also be laid on SL form which must be retained and maintained in TL where possibl…
Double or half reading, double or full meaning
The Qur’an abounds in multifaceted ambiguous and elliptical structures which sometimes attest its idiosyncratic rhetorical style and challenging formal correspondence and dynamic/functional equivalence between Arabic and English. Although previous translation studies on Qur’anic ambiguity and ellipsis are manifold, there is a paucity of past literature on amphibol(og)y and a dearth of previous research on anacoluthon in the Qur’an in particular. …
Translating Semantic Cases from Qur’anic Arabic into English
Semantic relationships between the predicators and referring expressions in real or unreal universes of discourse designate deep semantic cases that serve conceptually and functionally central roles in text interpretation and translation across languages and cultures. Starting from the assumption that case roles are not easy to translate interlingually, this study examines a limited but self-contained number of Qur’anic verses in which semantic c…
A taxonomy of antonymy in Arabic
This study has set out to identify, quantify, typify, and exemplify the discourse functions of canonical antonymy in Arabic paremiography by comparing two manually collected datasets from Egyptian and Saudi (Najdi) dialects. Building upon Jones’s (2002) most extensive and often-cited classification of the discourse functions of antonyms as they co-occur within syntactic frames in news discourse, the study has substantially revised this classifica…
Oppositions in Arabic Proverbs
Human beings are claimed to have a strong tendency for structuring their thoughts in terms of binary oppositions (Lyons, 1977). Binary oppositions, both canonical and non-canonical, have cross-linguistically been shown to perform textual functions in language and discourse (Jones, 2002; Davies, 2012; Hsu, 2015; Akşehirli, 2018, among many others). This study examines the discourse functions of oppositions in a dataset of oppositional pairs extrac…
Discourse functions of opposition in Classical Arabic
Translating aspects of lexical-semantic opposition from Qur’anic Arabic into English
The issue of Qur’anic (un)translatability has been the subject of much debate among scholars over the ages. Based on the analysis of a selected sample of Qur’anic antonyms, this article explores some limitations of Qur’anic (un)translatability at a lexical-semantic level, by investigating some of the challenges faced by a translator of the Qur’an when rendering ‘al-ṭibāq’ (antonymy) and ‘al-muqābala’ (opposition) into English. The purpose is to e…
"A structural-cognitive semiotic analysis of the Qur'anic story "Joseph and his Brothers
Previous work on the semiotics of Qur'anic narration is fairly sparse (cf. Hassanein, 2009b). In this paper I try to provide a semiotic analysis of the Qur'anic story Joseph and his Brothers, employing a model developed by Grambye and Sonne (2003a). The model draws heavily on the theories of structural-cognitive semiotics (Greimas, 1983; Brandt, 2004) and narratological terminology (Prince, 2003) and illustratively analyses the story's descriptiv…
Discourse functions of opposition in Classical Arabic
Translating aspects of lexical-semantic opposition from Qur’anic Arabic into English
The issue of Qur’anic (un)translatability has been the subject of much debate among scholars over the ages. Based on the analysis of a selected sample of Qur’anic antonyms, this article explores some limitations of Qur’anic (un)translatability at a lexical-semantic level, by investigating some of the challenges faced by a translator of the Qur’an when rendering ‘al-ṭibāq’ (antonymy) and ‘al-muqābala’ (opposition) into English. The purpose is to e…
"A structural-cognitive semiotic analysis of the Qur'anic story "Joseph and his Brothers
Previous work on the semiotics of Qur'anic narration is fairly sparse (cf. Hassanein, 2009b). In this paper I try to provide a semiotic analysis of the Qur'anic story Joseph and his Brothers, employing a model developed by Grambye and Sonne (2003a). The model draws heavily on the theories of structural-cognitive semiotics (Greimas, 1983; Brandt, 2004) and narratological terminology (Prince, 2003) and illustratively analyses the story's descriptiv…
Translating aspects of lexical-semantic opposition from Qur’anic Arabic into English
The issue of Qur’anic (un)translatability has been the subject of much debate among scholars over the ages. Based on the analysis of a selected sample of Qur’anic antonyms, this article explores some limitations of Qur’anic (un)translatability at a lexical-semantic level, by investigating some of the challenges faced by a translator of the Qur’an when rendering ‘al-ṭibāq’ (antonymy) and ‘al-muqābala’ (opposition) into English. The purpose is to e…
Discourse functions of opposition in Classical Arabic
A taxonomy of antonymy in Arabic
This study has set out to identify, quantify, typify, and exemplify the discourse functions of canonical antonymy in Arabic paremiography by comparing two manually collected datasets from Egyptian and Saudi (Najdi) dialects. Building upon Jones’s (2002) most extensive and often-cited classification of the discourse functions of antonyms as they co-occur within syntactic frames in news discourse, the study has substantially revised this classifica…
Oppositions in Arabic Proverbs
Human beings are claimed to have a strong tendency for structuring their thoughts in terms of binary oppositions (Lyons, 1977). Binary oppositions, both canonical and non-canonical, have cross-linguistically been shown to perform textual functions in language and discourse (Jones, 2002; Davies, 2012; Hsu, 2015; Akşehirli, 2018, among many others). This study examines the discourse functions of oppositions in a dataset of oppositional pairs extrac…
Double or half reading, double or full meaning
The Qur’an abounds in multifaceted ambiguous and elliptical structures which sometimes attest its idiosyncratic rhetorical style and challenging formal correspondence and dynamic/functional equivalence between Arabic and English. Although previous translation studies on Qur’anic ambiguity and ellipsis are manifold, there is a paucity of past literature on amphibol(og)y and a dearth of previous research on anacoluthon in the Qur’an in particular. …
Translating Semantic Cases from Qur’anic Arabic into English
Semantic relationships between the predicators and referring expressions in real or unreal universes of discourse designate deep semantic cases that serve conceptually and functionally central roles in text interpretation and translation across languages and cultures. Starting from the assumption that case roles are not easy to translate interlingually, this study examines a limited but self-contained number of Qur’anic verses in which semantic c…
Less Form, More Meaning
Ellipsis pervades the Qur’anic discourse. One pervasive form of it is al-iẖtibāk (“interchangeable ellipsis”). In terms of the interface between Qur’anic exegesis and Arabic rhetoric, the phenomenon of al-iẖtibāk is far more than a rhetorically heuristic technique for surface-structure analysis. It is a fruitful tool for pragmasemantic inferences of discursive implicatures defined as a fundamental mode of text construction and a logical hermeneut…
Rendition of Noncanonical Opposition
Grammar and meaning, form and function, are two linguistic levels intrinsic and indispensable to reading and rendering the Qur’an, the Divine Word of Islamic Scripture, in a foreign tongue. Nida and de Waard’s (1986) ‘functional equivalence’, an amalgamation of formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence, posits that emphasis in translation activity and practice must also be laid on SL form which must be retained and maintained in TL where possibl…
Translating Noncanonical Ancillary Qur’anic Oppositions Into English
Translating the sacred in a so-called divine language has been shown to be so difficult and challenging a task for translators of the Bible or the Qur’an. The human reproduction of the divine product(ion) has biblically and qur’anically been found to raise (in)soluble challenges and (in)surmountable hurdles in bicultural and cross-cultural communication and transfer in translation. One great challenge or big obstacle thereof is the (un)transferab…
Translatability of Ancillary Antonymy in the Qur’an
Among Muslims there is a dogmatic belief in the linguistic inimitability of Qur’anic discourse that places limitations on its translatability at different linguistic levels and constitutes a minefield of hurdles when translating it between incongruous and incommensurable languages. One understudied linguistic level is the lexical-semantic level and one unstudied issue is the frames and functions of ancillary antonymy in the Qur’anic discourse. Th…
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic
Between Human and Machine
Pan-Arabic telemedical discourse
“Argument as War”
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (9 works) · Arabic (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (7 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)