This article etiologically examines which principles pattern and govern antonym sequences in the Qur’anic discourse and why antonymous pair members are prone to a particularly regular order in the Qur’an. To conduct a rigorous analysis, the article builds on Jones’s (2002) analytic toolkit for antonym sequence (Chapter 8, 120-137) and tests it on a dataset manually collected from the Qur’an (1420 antonymous pairs). The toolkit accounts for antonym order in language use according to sequence rules which include morphology, positivity, magnitude, chronology, gender, phonology, idiomaticity, frequency, and markedness. The results showed that most of these rules are retrievable and replicable across Qur’anic Arabic, with, however, both quantitative and qualitative variations due to the peculiarly idiosyncratic nature of the Qur’an. Given that not all these sequential rules are applicable, new ones were developed: context, end-rhyme, and distance. The general conclusion is that Qur’anic antonym sequences are ruled by rigorous principles that are sometimes overruled for teleological reasons. Keywords: Qur’anic Arabic, Antonym Sequence, Emic Typology, Etiological Approach.
{"title":"Antonym Sequence in Qur’anic Arabic: An Emically Etiological Approach","authors":"Hamada S.A. Hassanein","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"This article etiologically examines which principles pattern and govern antonym sequences in the Qur’anic discourse and why antonymous pair members are prone to a particularly regular order in the Qur’an. To conduct a rigorous analysis, the article builds on Jones’s (2002) analytic toolkit for antonym sequence (Chapter 8, 120-137) and tests it on a dataset manually collected from the Qur’an (1420 antonymous pairs). The toolkit accounts for antonym order in language use according to sequence rules which include morphology, positivity, magnitude, chronology, gender, phonology, idiomaticity, frequency, and markedness. The results showed that most of these rules are retrievable and replicable across Qur’anic Arabic, with, however, both quantitative and qualitative variations due to the peculiarly idiosyncratic nature of the Qur’an. Given that not all these sequential rules are applicable, new ones were developed: context, end-rhyme, and distance. The general conclusion is that Qur’anic antonym sequences are ruled by rigorous principles that are sometimes overruled for teleological reasons. \u0000Keywords: Qur’anic Arabic, Antonym Sequence, Emic Typology, Etiological Approach.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130941653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present paper explores death euphemistic alternatives used by media during the period of kidnapping and later burning the Jordanian air force pilot Moath Al-Kasasbeh at the hands of ISIS[i]. The internet-based data serving as a research tool for the present study explained the dynamic functions of death-related euphemisms, showing that what had been avoided before burning because of its dysphemistic sense (assassination and murder) was used as a euphemism and as a gentler substitute for the unexpected burning. Conceptual metaphor was also used as a euphemistic substitute for the ugly burning of the pilot, and not as doublespeak aimed at hiding the reality. The use of the word sacrifice in place of burning, the conceptualization of death and burning as journey and facing or cuddling fate or angles were found to be euphemistic alternatives used to report the act of burning the Jordanian Air Force Pilot Moath Al-Kasasbeh. Examining euphemisms in conjunction with face wants and politeness, it was found that burning euphemisms which are based on lexical substitutions are aimed at saving the public self-image of the pilot’s bereaved family and protecting their self-esteem. Keywords: Euphemism; Dysphemism; Pragmatic, Politeness, Burning, Metaphor.
{"title":"The Dynamic Functions of Euphemism: The Martyrdom of the Jordanian Air Force Pilot Moath Al-Kasasbeh at the Hands of ISIS","authors":"","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper explores death euphemistic alternatives used by media during the period of kidnapping and later burning the Jordanian air force pilot Moath Al-Kasasbeh at the hands of ISIS[i]. The internet-based data serving as a research tool for the present study explained the dynamic functions of death-related euphemisms, showing that what had been avoided before burning because of its dysphemistic sense (assassination and murder) was used as a euphemism and as a gentler substitute for the unexpected burning. Conceptual metaphor was also used as a euphemistic substitute for the ugly burning of the pilot, and not as doublespeak aimed at hiding the reality. The use of the word sacrifice in place of burning, the conceptualization of death and burning as journey and facing or cuddling fate or angles were found to be euphemistic alternatives used to report the act of burning the Jordanian Air Force Pilot Moath Al-Kasasbeh. Examining euphemisms in conjunction with face wants and politeness, it was found that burning euphemisms which are based on lexical substitutions are aimed at saving the public self-image of the pilot’s bereaved family and protecting their self-esteem.\u0000Keywords: Euphemism; Dysphemism; Pragmatic, Politeness, Burning, Metaphor.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129337879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The use of Narrative Theory to analyze translations and to investigate how the act of translation affects the construction, reconstruction, and circulation of narratives is a current trend. This paper scrutinizes the counter-terrorism narratives constructed in the speeches of King Abdullah II of Jordan, by drawing on Baker's (2005) theory that all translations embed narratives promoting peace or violence. This scrutinization does not compare English and Arabic stretches of those speeches. Rather, it is an attempt to identify the stakes related to constructing, reconstructing and circulating those narratives. The framework of the narrative theory and the features of narratives: relationality, causal emplotment, selective appropriation, and temporality, have been used to examine the 29 speeches delivered by the king between 2014 and 2020. The study reveals that the king’s motivations for constructing his counter-terrorism narratives were to counter the existing misrepresentations of Islam perpetrated by both the media and terrorist groups and to construct alternative positive narratives. Keywords: Counter-terrorism; Narrative features; Narrative theory; Translation; Translation studies.
{"title":"Speeches of a King: Translation as Narration","authors":"","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"The use of Narrative Theory to analyze translations and to investigate how the act of translation affects the construction, reconstruction, and circulation of narratives is a current trend. This paper scrutinizes the counter-terrorism narratives constructed in the speeches of King Abdullah II of Jordan, by drawing on Baker's (2005) theory that all translations embed narratives promoting peace or violence. This scrutinization does not compare English and Arabic stretches of those speeches. Rather, it is an attempt to identify the stakes related to constructing, reconstructing and circulating those narratives. The framework of the narrative theory and the features of narratives: relationality, causal emplotment, selective appropriation, and temporality, have been used to examine the 29 speeches delivered by the king between 2014 and 2020. The study reveals that the king’s motivations for constructing his counter-terrorism narratives were to counter the existing misrepresentations of Islam perpetrated by both the media and terrorist groups and to construct alternative positive narratives. \u0000Keywords: Counter-terrorism; Narrative features; Narrative theory; Translation; Translation studies.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126082179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study explored the effect of English language learners’ breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge on their understanding and grades of reading English texts. Sixty-one Jordanian EFL undergraduates were assigned three tests, which were the Vocabulary Levels Test Version 2 (VLT), the Word Associates Test (WAT), and Academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The collected data was analysed utilizing Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression. According to the empirical outcomes, breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge correlated positively with each other and with reading comprehension. Further, the significant predictor of the overall variance of reading comprehension was vocabulary depth, while the breadth of vocabulary knowledge was the less significant one. The results demonstrate the importance of expanding and deepening EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge in classrooms. Keywords: Vocabulary Depth, Vocabulary Breadth, Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge, Vocabulary Levels Test, Reading Comprehension.
{"title":"Examining the Role of Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge in Reading Comprehension of English Language Learners","authors":"","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the effect of English language learners’ breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge on their understanding and grades of reading English texts. Sixty-one Jordanian EFL undergraduates were assigned three tests, which were the Vocabulary Levels Test Version 2 (VLT), the Word Associates Test (WAT), and Academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The collected data was analysed utilizing Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression. According to the empirical outcomes, breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge correlated positively with each other and with reading comprehension. Further, the significant predictor of the overall variance of reading comprehension was vocabulary depth, while the breadth of vocabulary knowledge was the less significant one. The results demonstrate the importance of expanding and deepening EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge in classrooms.\u0000Keywords: Vocabulary Depth, Vocabulary Breadth, Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge, Vocabulary Levels Test, Reading Comprehension.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120903102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the temporal and the spatial aspects of liminality in Sulayman Al Bassam’s play, Petrol Station (2017). Drawing on the theory of liminality, the paper investigates how liminality informed characterization, identity formation, the evasive concept of truth, and the characters’ absurd existence in Al Bassam’s work. It also shows how the author skillfully projects the liminality of geographical locations on the erratic boundaries between the personal and the collective, the literal and the symbolic, identity and loss of identity, faith and atheism, order and chaos, meaning and futility, tragedy and humor, and life and death. Accordingly, the play provides a proficient dramatization of how geographical liminality directly affects subjectivity and creates an apt environment where liminal identities can develop. The article concludes that the characters who managed to overcome their in-betweeness in the play achieved this through their individual determination to transcend the different aspects of liminality. Keywords: Sulayman Al Bassam, liminality, Temporal, Spatial, Absurdity, Identity.
本文探讨了苏莱曼·阿尔·巴萨姆(Sulayman Al Bassam)的戏剧《加油站》(2017)中阈限的时间和空间方面。本文以阈限理论为基础，探讨了阈限如何影响巴萨姆作品中的人物塑造、身份形成、对真理的回避以及人物的荒诞存在。它还展示了作者如何巧妙地将地理位置的阈限投射到个人与集体、文字与象征、身份与身份的丧失、信仰与无神论、秩序与混乱、意义与无用、悲剧与幽默、生命与死亡之间飘忽不定的界限上。因此，该剧提供了一个熟练的戏剧化的地理阈限如何直接影响主体性，并创造了一个适宜的环境，阈限身份可以发展。文章的结论是，剧中人物克服了自己的中间性，这是通过他们个人的决心来超越阈限性的不同方面。关键词:苏莱曼·巴萨姆，阈限，时间，空间，荒谬，同一性。
{"title":"At the Dawn of Existence: Aspects of Liminality in Sulayman \u0000Al Bassam’s Petrol Station","authors":"Lina Saleh, Sabrine Saleh","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the temporal and the spatial aspects of liminality in Sulayman Al Bassam’s play, Petrol Station (2017). Drawing on the theory of liminality, the paper investigates how liminality informed characterization, identity formation, the evasive concept of truth, and the characters’ absurd existence in Al Bassam’s work. It also shows how the author skillfully projects the liminality of geographical locations on the erratic boundaries between the personal and the collective, the literal and the symbolic, identity and loss of identity, faith and atheism, order and chaos, meaning and futility, tragedy and humor, and life and death. Accordingly, the play provides a proficient dramatization of how geographical liminality directly affects subjectivity and creates an apt environment where liminal identities can develop. The article concludes that the characters who managed to overcome their in-betweeness in the play achieved this through their individual determination to transcend the different aspects of liminality.\u0000Keywords: Sulayman Al Bassam, liminality, Temporal, Spatial, Absurdity, Identity.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125986183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper highlights the issue of consumerism in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985), as well as its representation and its effects on the construction of postmodern identity. It also reveals how consumers resort to spatialized time as a way to overcome the fear of death. Since consumerism goes along with mass media, this paper discusses simulation and hyper-reality in relation to consumerism and the spatialized social time. In addition to this, it pays attention to simultaneity as another aspect of spatialized time. In incorporating the figure of Hitler in the narrative, DeLillo juxtaposes the past with the present and thus creates a spatialization of time. The figure of Hitler represents another aspect of consumerism. The protagonist of this novel, Jack Gladney, tends to consume Hitler’s image in order to acquire power as will be analyzed in the coming pages. Keywords: Spatialized Social Time, White Noise, Don Delillo, Consumerism, Present Moment.
{"title":"The World as a Sequence of Present Moments: The Spatialization of Social \u0000Time in Don DeLillo’s White Noise","authors":"Soumaya Bouacida","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the issue of consumerism in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985), as well as its representation and its effects on the construction of postmodern identity. It also reveals how consumers resort to spatialized time as a way to overcome the fear of death. Since consumerism goes along with mass media, this paper discusses simulation and hyper-reality in relation to consumerism and the spatialized social time. In addition to this, it pays attention to simultaneity as another aspect of spatialized time. In incorporating the figure of Hitler in the narrative, DeLillo juxtaposes the past with the present and thus creates a spatialization of time. The figure of Hitler represents another aspect of consumerism. The protagonist of this novel, Jack Gladney, tends to consume Hitler’s image in order to acquire power as will be analyzed in the coming pages.\u0000Keywords: Spatialized Social Time, White Noise, Don Delillo, Consumerism, Present Moment.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123741415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El presente artículo aborda los refranes que hacen alusión explícita a los meses del otoño y el invierno en los refraneros de Jordania y Palestina. Tras la parte teórica dedicada a resaltar la importancia de esta tipología de refranes, se procede a analizar y describir el corpus que cuenta con ciento treinta y un ejemplos con su traducción inédita al español. Se revela que los refranes meteorológicos en la cultura jordana-palestina desempeñan un papel primordial en la vida de los campesinos a la hora de augurar el tiempo o dar consejos sobre las labores de agricultura y pastoreo. Palabras Clave. Paremiología Meteorológica; Otoño; Invierno; Jordania; Palestina; Traducción.
{"title":"Los Meses de Otoño e Invierno en los Refranes Jordanos y Palestinos: Recopilación, Análisis y Traducción al Castellano","authors":"","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo aborda los refranes que hacen alusión explícita a los meses del otoño y el invierno en los refraneros de Jordania y Palestina. Tras la parte teórica dedicada a resaltar la importancia de esta tipología de refranes, se procede a analizar y describir el corpus que cuenta con ciento treinta y un ejemplos con su traducción inédita al español. Se revela que los refranes meteorológicos en la cultura jordana-palestina desempeñan un papel primordial en la vida de los campesinos a la hora de augurar el tiempo o dar consejos sobre las labores de agricultura y pastoreo.\u0000Palabras Clave. Paremiología Meteorológica; Otoño; Invierno; Jordania; Palestina; Traducción.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122017658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is a sociolinguistic study investigating the variation of the phonological variable (ðˤ) in Al-Wahadneh town in Jordan where Christians and Muslims live together peacefully and harmoniously. The phonological variable (ðˤ) has two variants: a traditional [ðˤ] and an innovative [dˤ]. The main objective of this study is to examine if religion is a statistically significant social factor in relation to the variable in question. The data is elicited from recorded sociolinguistic interviews and analysed via Rbrul. The results show that religion has no statistically significant influence on the pronunciation of the linguistic variable under investigation. The pattern of linguistic change with regard to (ðˤ) seems to be a typical change in progress away from the traditional variant [ðˤ] in favour of the innovative variant [dˤ]. This change is clearly led by the young female generation. The findings regarding the nonsignificant role of religion on variant choice in Al-Wahadneh can be interpreted in relation to how Christians and Muslims live in the town and how they both view themselves as Jordanian Arabs regardless of their religious affiliation. Keywords: Religion, Variationist Sociolinguistics, Age, Gender.
{"title":"Is Religion a Social Factor in the Variation of (ðˤ)? The Case of Khirbit Al-Wahadneh, Jordan","authors":"","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"This is a sociolinguistic study investigating the variation of the phonological variable (ðˤ) in Al-Wahadneh town in Jordan where Christians and Muslims live together peacefully and harmoniously. The phonological variable (ðˤ) has two variants: a traditional [ðˤ] and an innovative [dˤ]. The main objective of this study is to examine if religion is a statistically significant social factor in relation to the variable in question. The data is elicited from recorded sociolinguistic interviews and analysed via Rbrul. The results show that religion has no statistically significant influence on the pronunciation of the linguistic variable under investigation. The pattern of linguistic change with regard to (ðˤ) seems to be a typical change in progress away from the traditional variant [ðˤ] in favour of the innovative variant [dˤ]. This change is clearly led by the young female generation. The findings regarding the nonsignificant role of religion on variant choice in Al-Wahadneh can be interpreted in relation to how Christians and Muslims live in the town and how they both view themselves as Jordanian Arabs regardless of their religious affiliation. \u0000Keywords: Religion, Variationist Sociolinguistics, Age, Gender.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cette recherche porte sur la satire politique numérique en Algérie. Dans une scène médiatique, qui s’est longtemps interdite ce genre provocateur de peur de représailles ou pour ménager les susceptibilités, Nazim Baya, un jeune pharmacien, lance son site satirique El Manchar pour « dénoncer l’absurdité de la scène politique en Algérie »1. Cette satire numérique, qui apparait dans une conjoncture particulière précédant le soulèvement populaire de 2019, devient rapidement un lieu de rencontre d’une communauté spécifique. L’avènement des nouvelles technologies a effectivement métamorphosé le statut du lecteur (public) qui n’est plus un récepteur passif, mais il semble devenir un acteur incontournable qui interagit avec les satiristes grâce aux commentaires en ligne. A partir d’une analyse pragmatico-énonciative de vingt articles satiriques et de commentaires de lecteurs-commentateurs, nous voulons voir si et le cas échéant, de quelle manière les membres de cette communauté du virtuel construiraient, à travers une interactivité discursive en ligne, une forme de connivence de dérision pour dénoncer l’Autre par le ridicule. Mots-clés : Satire Politique, Dérision, Interaction, Connivence, Réseaux Sociaux Numérique.
{"title":"La Satire Numérique : la Dérision en Interaction dans le Journal \u0000Electronique « El Manchar »","authors":"","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Cette recherche porte sur la satire politique numérique en Algérie. Dans une scène médiatique, qui s’est longtemps interdite ce genre provocateur de peur de représailles ou pour ménager les susceptibilités, Nazim Baya, un jeune pharmacien, lance son site satirique El Manchar pour « dénoncer l’absurdité de la scène politique en Algérie »1. Cette satire numérique, qui apparait dans une conjoncture particulière précédant le soulèvement populaire de 2019, devient rapidement un lieu de rencontre d’une communauté spécifique. L’avènement des nouvelles technologies a effectivement métamorphosé le statut du lecteur (public) qui n’est plus un récepteur passif, mais il semble devenir un acteur incontournable qui interagit avec les satiristes grâce aux commentaires en ligne. A partir d’une analyse pragmatico-énonciative de vingt articles satiriques et de commentaires de lecteurs-commentateurs, nous voulons voir si et le cas échéant, de quelle manière les membres de cette communauté du virtuel construiraient, à travers une interactivité discursive en ligne, une forme de connivence de dérision pour dénoncer l’Autre par le ridicule. \u0000Mots-clés : Satire Politique, Dérision, Interaction, Connivence, Réseaux Sociaux Numérique.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128246032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first century, counter discourses emerged to challenge orientalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, capitalism, and globalization in cultural studies. Frequently bound up with culture and politics, the Arab “intellectual” effectively criticizes issues important to the Arab world. Drawing on this viewpoint, this paper examines the intellectual’s social and political role in Ghassan Kanafani’s Aid ila Haifa, translated into English as Returning to Haifa (2000) by Karen Riley, and Sahar Khalifeh’s Rabi' Harr, translated into English as The End of Spring (2008) by Paula Haydar. Edward Said’s ideas about the “intellectual”, “secular criticism”, “origins and beginnings” are the framework used to understand the intellectual’s role in writing-as-action and calling for necessary change. Whenever there is intellectuality, there are power relations entrenched in language. Insofar as the two Arabic originals are read in translation as well, and due to the rise of the cultural turn in translation studies, this paper, correspondingly, considers choices/contributions made by the translators that serve to align the “intellectual” with his/her orientation in the English versions, thus actively exercising a sort of language power that responds to the dominant discourse. The paper reveals that foreignization in the form of literalness, hybridity, and cultural mediation serve the “intellectual” in the translation culture. Keywords: The Intellectual, Origin and Beginning, Secular Criticism, Cultural Turn in Translation, Power Relations in Translation.
{"title":"The Role of the Arab \"Intellectual\" and Power Relations in the Translation \u0000of Aid ila Haifa and Rabi' Harr","authors":"M. N. Malkawi, Bilal Sayaheen","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"As the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first century, counter discourses emerged to challenge orientalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, capitalism, and globalization in cultural studies. Frequently bound up with culture and politics, the Arab “intellectual” effectively criticizes issues important to the Arab world. Drawing on this viewpoint, this paper examines the intellectual’s social and political role in Ghassan Kanafani’s Aid ila Haifa, translated into English as Returning to Haifa (2000) by Karen Riley, and Sahar Khalifeh’s Rabi' Harr, translated into English as The End of Spring (2008) by Paula Haydar. Edward Said’s ideas about the “intellectual”, “secular criticism”, “origins and beginnings” are the framework used to understand the intellectual’s role in writing-as-action and calling for necessary change. Whenever there is intellectuality, there are power relations entrenched in language. Insofar as the two Arabic originals are read in translation as well, and due to the rise of the cultural turn in translation studies, this paper, correspondingly, considers choices/contributions made by the translators that serve to align the “intellectual” with his/her orientation in the English versions, thus actively exercising a sort of language power that responds to the dominant discourse. The paper reveals that foreignization in the form of literalness, hybridity, and cultural mediation serve the “intellectual” in the translation culture.\u0000Keywords: The Intellectual, Origin and Beginning, Secular Criticism, Cultural Turn in Translation, Power Relations in Translation.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130524422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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