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In:Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East
Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel
[Benjamins Translation Library 7] 1994
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 20 October 1994
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Table of contents

Forewordvii
Acknowledgementsx
Key to transliteration used for Arabic scriptxi
Part I. theory, cognition, ideology
Cognition, communicatio, translation, instruction: The geopolitics of discourse1
Discourse, ideology, and translation23
Translation as a knowledge-based activity: Context, culture, and cognition35
A typology for translation45
Part II. Aspects for comparison
Ideational equivalence in translation55
The translation of style65
The rhetoric of paragraphing across cultures73
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Part III. Arabic and english in contact
Terminological inconsistensies in English-arabic translation79
The role and future of journalistic translation83
Loan translations in written Jordanian news media91
‘Monitoring’ and ‘managing’ in Arabic and English news reports103
Code-switching at the university: A sociolinguistic study115
Part IV. Issues in lexicography and grammar
Terminological problems in Arabic133
Verb-particle combinations in english and arabic: problems for arab lexicographers and translators141
The semantic diversity of ‘faʕʕala’ forms153
Designing english-arabic dictionairies161
Part V. Pedagogical application
Translation as a resource for teaching english as a foreign language181
A communicative approach for empowering students as translators189
Part VI. Geopolitical outlooks
Military translation199
The international federation of translators and its role in the arab world209
Consultations, conferences, and proceedings: their role as discourse transactions221
Addresses of contributors247
Index of names249
Index of terms254
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