Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh plays a role.
Articles
2017 The nomenclature of storms in Arabic: From Arabicisation to adaptation Translation Spaces 6:2, pp. 251–269 | Article
This article deals with the naming of ecology-related objects in Arabic, as illustrated in the naming of the snowstorms “Storm Huda”, “Storm Jana” and “Storm Zina” which whipped through the Middle East countries on January 6 and February 19, 2015 respectively. The article analyses a corpus of… read more
2017 Censorship in English-Arabic subtitling Babel 63:4, pp. 556–579 | Article
This article draws on three American movies to illustrate censorship in English-Arabic subtitling. The paper argues that in translating languages of little cultural affinity, censorship serves as a remedy that can narrow the potential cultural gap. However, the paper shows that the films have… read more