Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331580
Mahmoud Mahmoud
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Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331577
Ahlam Othman
Gendering spaces is one way of reinforcing a culture's gender norms and maintaining hierarchical relationships between men and women. Women's identities are effaced when they are used as a symbol for a nation; they are seen as inferior to men when they are assigned the private space of home as opposed to men's public space. The most efficient way of examining whether these dichotomies and hegemonic relationships exist across different cultures, as Linda McDowell suggests, is by conducting comparative studies. The present study examines how space is gendered in Seamus Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist (1966) compared to Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi’s A Heartless City (1959). The findings show that space is gendered in the same way in Eastern and Western cultures: the homeland is portrayed as a woman; men are assigned public space while women are confined to the private space of home; moreover, a woman's body is portrayed as space for men's sexual acts. These findings suggest the persistence of gender stratification, masculine hegemony and women’s inferiority across cultures, which is alarming given the fact that they have been so deeply engraved in collective consciousness that they have come to be viewed as natural.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331587
Abdulhamid Alansary
Margret Atwood's novel The Edible Woman (1969) has been analyzed by scholars as a novel, which explores the themes of sexual identity and the struggle of women against society in an attempt to establish an identity for themselves. Christine Watson's novel Tiny Sunbirds Faraway (2011) has been analyzed as a work that depicts the importance of the presence of father and mother in the lives of the members of a family, in particular, and its importance for a consolidated society, in general. A striking notion that is worth analyzing in both novels, however, has not been given any attention, namely, the relationship between the oppression of nature and the oppression of women in the two novels. Though the texts’ settings differ, The Edible Woman’ s context is Canada, whereas the context of Tiny Sunbirds is the Niger Delta area, Nigeria, Africa, both are undergirded by the preservation of nature for the benefit of man and woman. The present study investigates feminist ecological principles in the two novels. It also calls for the preservation and development of nature for the benefit of man within the framework of the joint relations between women and nature, on one hand, and between women and nature and the environment, on the other. The study relies on textual analysis and applies the principles of the environmental feminist critical movement called ecofeminism. Exceeding previous studies’ treatment of feminist ecology within an ideological framework of different orientations with some historical depth, the current study seeks, through the analysis of the two texts under investigation, to put solutions for the future relationship of cooperation between men and women in an ethical context that transcends male domination and prevents women’s oppression. It also seeks to present an ideological critique based on women’s experiences in the field of social production and nature conservation.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331309
Ne’am Abd Elhafeez
In the Aristotelian tradition, a character is a crucial theatrical element which gives drama its full meaning through the mimesis of action. However, in the postdramatic theatre, characterized by “subjecting the traditional relationship of theatre to drama to deconstruction” (Lehmann 2), the existence of a character, a well defined dramatic persona, was doubted or negated in a way that destabilizes the Aristotelian dramatic conventions. The character position was destabilized in contemporary theater via disconnecting the actor from representing a character role, becoming just “a performer offering his/her presence on stage for contemplation”, (Lehmann 136), or through absenting the actors completely and replacing them with machines or multimedia creations. In this respect, the paper explores the dialectics of staging absent characters in the two postdramatic performances, Martin Crimp’s play-text Attempts on Her Life (1997) and its Katie Mitchell’s performance
在亚里士多德的传统中，角色是一个关键的戏剧元素，它通过对动作的模仿赋予戏剧完整的意义。然而，在以 "解构戏剧与戏剧的传统关系"（Lehmann 2）为特征的后戏剧剧场中，角色的存在，即一个定义明确的戏剧角色，受到怀疑或否定，从而破坏了亚里士多德戏剧传统。在当代戏剧中，角色地位被颠覆的方式有两种：一种是让演员不再扮演角色，而只是 "一个在舞台上提供自己的存在以供思考的表演者"（Lehmann 136）；另一种是让演员完全缺席，代之以机器或多媒体创作。在这方面，本文探讨了马丁-克里姆普（Martin Crimp）的剧本《企图谋杀她》（Attempts on Her Life，1997 年）和凯蒂-米切尔（Katie Mitchell）的表演这两部后戏剧表演中缺席角色的辩证关系。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331310
Karima Mohsen
This paper sets out to analyze Raoul Eshelman's notion of Performatism as an epochal heir of postmodernism through providing, first, a brief account of Performatism and its main underlying features, then tracing its imprints on contemporary cultural developments. The paper explores the broad range of art forms, including literature, films, and artifacts that are essential to Performatism, and how various contemporary artworks are open to new methods of critical analyses that abandon, or even counter postmodern original ideals. The study then approaches Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls (2011) from a performatist perspective, with an attempt to spotlight and trace the principal features of Eshelman's proposed theory in the novel, with the aim of proving that the emerging theory qualifies as a successful illustrator of the epochal paradigm shifts in literary studies in the post-postmodern era.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331327
Mohamed Amin
Based on the relationship between Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and translation, and with the aim of resolving the existing dispute over the subjective and unjustified evaluation of translation quality, this study provides an objective approach to the quality assessment of English into Arabic translation. This study uses the interpersonal metafunction of language to assess the quality of the translation. The assessment goal is to check if the interpersonal metafunction of the translated text is equivalent to the interpersonal metafunction of the original text. The tools derived from Halliday’s SFL are important in the analysis because SFL is the linguistic branch that deals closely with language functions and social aspects. At the same time, the translation is seen as a whole product as well as a series of processes (Bardi, 2008). The study adopts a descriptive contrastive approach to present the main choices of interpersonal metafunction systems and their realizations in English and Arabic and uses SFL to analyze grammatical realizations of Mood system choices, seeking the Tenor variable of texts represented in context. The objective assessment is based on giving a score for each time there is a success in finding the appropriate equivalent. The texts used are originally published texts in English and their authenticated published translations in Arabic. The texts are taken from single registers, and the analysis was limited to simple clauses.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331325
Sama Dawood
Within the localization industry, translation is viewed as just a stage in a multi-stage process, while from the viewpoint of translation studies, localization is a type of translation. This study argues that the localization of websites could be explored thoroughly within the boundaries of eco-translatology - an emerging paradigm in Translation Studies which emphasizes the holistic perspective. Through selective adaptation and adaptive selection, translators try to create balance and harmony between the ecological contexts of the source and target texts. By analyzing the Arabic translation of English taglines on food and beverage brand websites based on Hu's (2020) eco-translatology theory, this study investigates the extent to which the interaction among the agents in the localization industry leads to a series of transformations to preserve the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions of the taglines. The findings highlight that the eco-translatology approach provides a comprehensive framework to explain the transformations made by translators. Consequently, the study underscores the importance of harmoniously integrating translation studies and localization practices, ensuring that localization remains rooted in translation principles and incorporates advancements in research.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331321
Mervat Ahmed
This study adopts a critical discourse analysis approach to examine the strategies employed by US President Joe Biden in his speeches to de-legitimize the Russian war in Ukraine that started in 2022. The study applies van Leeuwen’s (2007) (de) legitimation strategies model. Two speeches, extracted from the White House official website and delivered by President Biden on two different occasions during the first few months of the war being waged, are analyzed. The results reveal US President Biden’s tendency to rely mainly on three de-legitimation categories. The most frequently employed strategy is moral evaluation through evaluative modifiers and abstraction. The second most frequent strategy is authorization mainly through authority of conformity, in addition to impersonal and personal authority. Finally, both instrumental and theoretical rationalization are employed to delegitimate the Russian war in Ukraine and legitimize the US assistance provided to it.
本研究采用批判性话语分析方法，研究美国总统乔-拜登在其演讲中为使俄罗斯于 2022 年在乌克兰发动的战争合法化而采取的策略。研究采用了 van Leeuwen（2007）的（de）合法化策略模型。研究分析了从白宫官方网站上提取的两篇演讲，这两篇演讲是拜登总统在战争爆发的头几个月在两个不同场合发表的。结果显示，美国总统拜登倾向于主要依赖三种去合法化策略。最常使用的策略是通过评价性修饰词和抽象概念进行道德评价。第二种最常用的策略是授权，主要是通过一致性权威，此外还有非个人权威和个人权威。最后，工具合理化和理论合理化都被用来使俄罗斯在乌克兰的战争合法化，并使美国向其提供的援助合法化。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331313
Nehal Amer
As early as the 1980s, many artists and critics have declared that postmodernism as a cultural paradigm is in its final throes, although the question of what comes afterwards has remained a hotly debated one. Metamodernism is one of the many proposed answers to this quandary, describing an emerging cultural sensibility that oscillates between postmodern and modern sensibilities, ultimately creating something completely new. This paradigm shift from postmodernism is most apparent in sitcoms; a new wave of American television shows has started destabilising the typical image of postmodern sitcoms that heavily relied on cynicism, ironic detachment, self-reflexivity, and parodying the limitations of the medium itself. Drawing upon Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker’s, and Alexandra Dumitrescu’s conceptualisation of metamodernism, this paper examines
早在 20 世纪 80 年代，许多艺术家和评论家就宣称，作为一种文化范式，后现代主义正处于最后的阵痛期，尽管关于其后会发生什么的问题仍然争论不休。元现代主义是对这一窘境提出的众多答案之一，它描述了一种在后现代和现代感性之间摇摆不定的新兴文化感性，最终创造出一种全新的事物。后现代主义的这种范式转变在情景喜剧中表现得最为明显；新一波的美国电视节目开始颠覆后现代情景喜剧的典型形象，即严重依赖玩世不恭、反讽、自我反思和戏仿媒介本身的局限性。本文借鉴 Timotheus Vermeulen、Robin van den Akker 和 Alexandra Dumitrescu 对元现代主义的概念，探讨了后现代情景喜剧的发展。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331324
Shereen El Nahal
Whether consciously or unconsciously, the social media influencers use code-switching, a phenomenon which has become very popular and widespread nowadays. This research investigates the use of code-switching by Egyptian social media Influencers attempting to cover the types, reasons/motivations, and the functions of code-switching. The subjects of this research are a famous Egyptian blogger and an online English teacher who mix English with Arabic to deliver their meaning. The study is qualitative in nature since it requires description of code switching based on the data collected that show instances of code switching. Furthermore, the data are three short videos focusing on the utterances where the code-switching is unavoidably employed as a means of social communication. The results reveal that three types of code-switching have been used by the English instructors: intersentential, intrasentential and tag switching , whereas the intrasentential type is the most used by both the blogger and the English language instructor; social media influencers. Furthermore, the two most dominant factors that make Egyptian social media influencers generally code-switch are the facility of retrieving words from the memory and the situational factor.
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