Mutahar Qassem
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mutahar Qassem is involved.
Articles
2024 A corpus-based study of subtitling religious swear words from English into Arabic FORUM 22:2, pp. 251–279 | Article
Subtitling Hollywood films with religious taboo words for conservative and closed societies, such as an Arab society, is a difficult task. This study investigates the dominant religious terms and functions used in Hollywood films and to identify the dominant translation strategies used for them… read more
2022 Lexical, exegetical, and frequency-based analyses of the translations of the Qur’anic collocations Babel 68:1, pp. 86–113 | Article
Translating collocations is one of the problematic areas in translation studies, which becomes even more complicated when translating Qur’anic text is involved. The uniqueness of Qur’anic linguistic features, special context of the Qur’anic text, and stylistic differences between English and… read more
2020 Translation unit and quality of translation: Cultural and innovation perspectives Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 33:2, pp. 536–561 | Article
This research aims to study segmentation (i.e., translation unit (TU)) in students’ translations of cultural references and assess the translation quality, using Translog software and a translation task. This product and process-oriented research examines the same independent variable, that is,… read more