Culguage in, of translation from Arabic

Culguage in/of Translation from Arabic Said Faiq, Ovidi Carbonell & Ali Almanna (eds.) American University of Sharjah, University of Salamanca, University of Nizwa Although, representations of ‘weak’ cultures by ‘powerful’ ones in negative terms have been part of the scheme of history, no culture has been misrepresented and deformed by mostly Western cultures like the Arab/Islamic one. As intercultural communication, translation assumes a considerable role in the encounters between different cultures and their respective languages. Approached as such, translation and issues of nation, identity, language, and culture have never been more important or more troubling to intercultural encounters than they are today. As representation, translation requires linguistic tools (language) and the system that guides these tools in the first place (culture). Thus, translation is representation of culguages (a blend from culture and language) through a particular master discourse. Cultural representation through translation has received attention, but there is still a mostly dispersed body of literature on the field and its allied areas. Within this theoretical context, this volume contributes to the critical approaches to translation from Arabic into mostly Western culguages. The volume is structured in two parts, namely ‘a topoied culture’ and ‘Islamic discourse’. Under both sections, the chapters address the relationships between the culture of translation and the translation of culture by considering the problematics of how the culture of translation is brought to bear on the ways translation animates the ‘inter’ in intercultural contacts. Contents Part 1: A Topoied culture Said Faiq: Culguage in/of Translation from Arabic Ovidi Carbonell: Topoi and argumentative fallacies as legitimising devices in the translation of Arabic political discourse Mustafa Ettobi: Culture, Ideology and Discourse in the Translation of NajibMahfuz’sAwladHaratinainto English and French Dalal Mahmoud ElGemei: Translation of Deception or Deception in Translation: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Based study of deception in translation Hannah Amit-Kochavi: Selective presentation - Arabic-Hebrew literary translation anthologies and collections (1883-2010) Michael Hall: Discourse Analysis of Fictional Dialogue in Arabic to English Translation Part 2: Islamic Discourse Patrick J. D’Silva: Social Agency and Translating the Qur’an: The Case of Laleh Bakhtiar’s The Sublime Qur’an and 4:34 Ahmed Saleh Elimam: The Translation of the Qur’an: Different Loyalties Hasan Ghazala: Over-scrupulousness Distorts Communication: A Critique of Al-Hilali and Khan's 'Transpretation' of the Holy Koran Gavin N. Picken: Interpreting the Transcendent Experience: Translating Classical Sufi Texts Index ISBN 9783862885848. LINCOM Studies in Translation 07. 199pp. 2014.