By choosing to use different linguistic approaches as a theoretical basis of their study of translation as a process of picture-taking, The Arabic-English Translator as Photographer: A Linguistic Account offers readers an original view of the translators work.
In addition to laying emphasis on the importance of giving full consideration to the mental image(s) conjured up in the mind of the translators, the book provides an accessible introduction to structural semiotics, interpretive semiotics, functional grammar, semantics and cognitive linguistics for students and researchers who are new to the field. The book can be used as a basis for (post)graduate students, especially students of MA and PhD in Translation Studies as well as students in modern languages schools.
The book focuses on a specific pair of languages, English and Arabic, and presents the relationships generated by texts translation, including adverts and other types of texts, between these two languages.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Setting the scene: introductory matters
Who is the book for?
Why is it different?
Structure of the book
Hypotheses & research questions
Significance of the book
Theoretical background
Key technical terms
Warming up exercises
Further reading
Chapter 2: Signs & syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes
Semiotics
Signified versus signifier
Syntagms and paradigms
Commutation test
Key technical terms
Exercises
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