Sultan Qaboos University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Sultan Qaboos University*

Arizavi, Saleh, Alireza Jalilifar & A. Mehdi Riazi 2025 Argument schemes and soundness/strength in published research article discussion sections: A chronological study

Keywords: argument scheme | argument soundness | argument strength | discussion section | pragma-dialectical approach

Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:1 pp. 61–97 | article

Bashir, Abeer M. A. & Osman M. O. Ali 2024 Tagoi birth names: A historical change from African to Islamic/Arabic names

Keywords: naming system | birth name | non-order name | birth-order name | day name | Islamization | Arabization | Arabicization

In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell & Nico Nassenstein (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 253–276 | open access

Zidjaly, Najma Al & Zumurrod Al Barhi 2023 Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman

Keywords: Covid-19 | public signs | stickers | memes | WhatsApp | interpersonal pragmatics | visual semiotics | Oman

Pragmatics and Society 14:2 pp. 358–381 | article

Al-Sharafi, Abdul Gabbar & Rizwan Ahmad 2022 Translating the sacred: Agency in translating verb-noun alternation in the Qur’an

Keywords: translator’s agency | Qur’anic inimitability | eloquence | Arabic rhetoric | Arabic stylistics | religious translation | Iltifāt | agentivité du traducteur | inimitabilité du Coran | éloquence | rhétorique | stylistique | traduction religieuse | Iltifāt

Babel 68:3 pp. 317–340 | article

Al-Sharafi, Abdul Gabbar & Khaled Al-Shehari 2020 Translation and the narratives of legitimacy: A semiotic analysis of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen’s legitimacy-constructing strategies and their Arabic translations

Keywords: agency | Houthi | legitimacy | labeling | metonymy | naming | selective appropriation | Yemen

Translation Spaces 9:2 pp. 202–223 | article

Thawabteh, Mohammad Ahmad 2017 Censorship in English-Arabic subtitling

Keywords: censorship | obscenity | subtitle | translation strategies | Arabic | English | censure | obscénité | sous-titres | stratégies de traduction | arabe | anglais

Babel 63:4 pp. 556–579 | article

Thawabteh, Mohammad Ahmad 2017 The nomenclature of storms in Arabic: From Arabicisation to adaptation

Keywords: translation | domesticating | foreignising | ecology | Storm Huda | Storm Jana | ideology

Translation Spaces 6:2 pp. 251–269 | article

Emery, Peter G. 1996 Albrecht Neubert and Gregory M. Shreve: Translation as Text

Babel 42:2 pp. 124–126 | book review

Emery, Peter G. 1996 An ATN-based model of human translation and its application to an Arabic literary text

Babel 42:3 pp. 141–157 | article

Emery, Peter G. 1991 Lexical incongruence in Arabic-English translation

Babel 37:3 pp. 129–137 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.