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
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 | Article
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
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 the… read more | Article
2014. Whose face to be saved? Mubarak’s or Egypt’s? A pragma-semantic analysis. Pragmatics and Society 5:1, pp. 128–146
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 | Article