Arab News and Conflict: A multidisciplinary discourse study
Samia Bazzi
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 34] 2009. xiv, 222 pp.
Samia Bazzi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samia Bazzi plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
2020 The contribution of register analysis to the translation of Red Sorghum Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:3, pp. 211–229 | Article
The Chinese novel Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú (红高粱家族, Red Sorghum 2008) was written by the Nobel-winning Chinese writer Mò Yán (莫言). Its Arabic translation (الذرة الرفيعة الحمراء, al-Dhurra al-Rafī‘a al-Hamrā) was published in 2013. By comparing the Chinese source text with the Arabic target text, this… read more
2019 How can CDA unravel power relations in media representations of conflict in the Middle East? Transediting as a case study Pragmatics and Society 10:4, pp. 584–612 | Article
This study attempts to show the role of translation in giving meaning to conflicts whether by reproducing the dominant political beliefs of a particular media society or by resisting counter-ideologies that come from foreign sources of information. It utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis as an… read more
2019 The non-translation strategy in translating ISIS radical discourse Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2, pp. 133–155 | Article
This paper examines the contribution of translation to the shaping of ISIS concepts and discourses circulated through its media machine, which includes Dabiq Magazine and the Al-Furqan Foundation. It will explore propaganda strategies used by ISIS to disseminate radical thought through… read more
2018 A model solution for English-Arabic-English translation students: A case study from the Lebanese University Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:2, pp. 282–305 | Article
This paper proposes a model that addresses students’ common errors in English-Arabic-English translation. My study documents an attempt to develop a new interconnectedness between students’ errors and translation theories that may improve their performance when translating different genres.… read more
2015 Ideology and Arabic translations of news texts Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 1:2, pp. 135–161 | Article
Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis, the present paper seeks to identify the ideological factors that may characterize politically motivated news texts and the text strategies that articulate them in an English-Arabic translation context. Two hundred source texts and target texts representing… read more
2014 Foreign metaphors and Arabic translation: An empirical study in journalistic translation practice Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. 120–151 | Article
This paper attempts to bridge translation studies on metaphor with perspectives from cognitive and critical discourse studies. It provides a new contribution to the study of the interplay between language and politics by investigating the ideological motivations behind choices made by Arab… read more