Ali Jalalian Daghigh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ali Jalalian Daghigh is involved.
2026 A reception study on the impact of visual elements and translation strategies on viewers’ comprehension of culture-specific items in Malay-subtitled Chinese movies FORUM 24:1, pp. 109–137 | Article
The impact of modality on viewers’ comprehension of Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) in subtitled audiovisual content remains insufficiently explored, and existing studies rely heavily on subjective self-reported measures with a small sample of participants. The present study seeks to provide more… read more
2023 Cognitive effort in human translation and machine translation post-editing processes: A holistic and phased view FORUM 21:1, pp. 139–162 | Article
Due to the inaccuracies of Machine Translation (MT), Post-Editing (PE) is inevitable. This poses questions over whether human effort to polish an MT is worthwhile or whether it would be more efficient to translate manually. However, to date, fewer attempts have been made to compare the cognitive… read more
2018 A taxonomy of manipulative operations in political discourse translation: A CDA approach FORUM 16:2, pp. 197–220 | Article
Translation may not always be understood in the way the writer of the original text intended it to be. This is particularly true in political discourse translation in which the target text has to be re-contextualized and tailored to suit the ideologies, values and socio-political needs of the… read more



