Amir H.Y. Salama
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amir H.Y. Salama plays a role.
Articles
2021 A methodology for Qur’anic lexical translation: Synergizing semantic preference, discourse prosody, and para/intertextuality Translation Spaces 10:2, pp. 278–305 | Article
The present study propounds a methodology for the translation of Qur’anic lexis in a way that synergizes semantic preference, discourse prosody, and para/intertextuality. Towards the validation of this methodology, the Qur’anic lexical item آيـة (āyah) is investigated at two levels: (a) the… read more
2021 Towards a discourse-semantic approach to visual narrative analysis: The case of the BBC news story of Islamic State (IS) Pragmatics and Society 12:2, pp. 189–223 | Article
The present study propounds a novel discourse-semantic approach that problematizes the social semiotic analysis of visual narrative in two respects: (i) the lack of a model that can explain the plurifunctional structure of visual acts of communication in general and (ii) the failure to provide… read more
2014 Whose face to be saved? Mubarak’s or Egypt’s? A pragma-semantic analysis Pragmatics and Society 5:1, pp. 128–146 | Article
The 25th of January, 2011 witnessed a wave of political unrest all over Egypt, with repercussions that have re-shaped the future of contemporary Egypt. For the first time in the modern history of Egypt since the 1952 Nasserite revolution, grass-root protestors went to streets chanting slogans… read more