Abdelkarim Tawfiq Daragmeh
List of John Benjamins publications for which Abdelkarim Tawfiq Daragmeh plays a role.
Articles
A cognitive approach to metaphor translation in business texts: The case of English into Arabic translation FORUM 20:1, pp. 116–133 | Article
2022 A metaphor is normally deployed for specific rhetorical and aesthetic functions. However, in the commercial context, metaphor usage displays specific communicative functions as exhibited in the English business texts we sampled for this study. We examine the translation of business metaphor from… read more
The translation of Palestinian prisoners’ cryptic security Arabic terms into English Babel 65:5, pp. 648–661 | Article
2019 This study deals with the translation into English of nine cryptic security Arabic terms Palestinian prisoners have nomenclatured in response to the life conditions in Israeli prisons. These terms were collected from prison literature and through interviews with five newly-freed Palestinian… read more
Textual transformation of an Arabic poem into an American rap song FORUM 16:2, pp. 265–283 | Article
2018 Arabic poetry and English rap are strikingly different products owing to the divergent language pairs and genre pairs. This study examines the nature and degree of change in translating the content of Arabic poetry into English rap. It studies three main content-based elements in the original… read more