Jamal al-Qinai
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jamal al-Qinai is involved.
2011 Translating phatic expressions Pragmatics 21:1, pp. 23–39 | Article
Any conversational exchange can be informational or phatic. Occasional exchanges are of no lesser importance than the informative content of dialogue. One needs to establish the channel of communication by setting up a social environment conducive to the exchange of ideas among the participants.… read more
2011 John Kearns (ed.): Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates. Babel 57:3, pp. 359–362 | Review
2008 Translating modals between English and Arabic Translation and Interpreting Studies 3:1/2, pp. 30–67 | Article
Although central to many disciplines, modality has not received adequate treatment in the field of contrastive studies of English-Arabic translation. Since there are no neat Arabic counterparts to English modals, the only valid arguments for comparison are, therefore, the semantic-pragmatic ones.… read more
2003 Review of: “Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications”, by Jeremy Munday Babel 49:4, pp. 376–379 | Review
2002 Convergence and Divergence in Translating vs Interpreting Competence Babel 48:4, pp. 305–329 | Article
While most scholars stress that translation and interpreting essentially fulfil the same function, many-especially interpreters-consider that the two are incompatible professions. In a sense, translators deal with written language and have time to polish their work whereas interpreters deal with… read more
1999 Assimilation vs Translation of SL Lexical Items. Factors and Criteria. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 125/126, pp. 277–317 | Article
The paper is divided into three segments. First, it highlights the major factors that lead to the adoption of foreign lexicon. The second segment focuses on the criteria for identifying foreign words assimilated into Arabic. The study concludes with a survey of the factors that lead to alterations… read more