Censorship as enabling: importing, distributing, and translating foreign films in the Arab Middle East

Al-Qudah, Isra

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09977

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“…Subtitling was the mode desired for Anglophone, Francophone and other foreign films, tv series and documentaries, while Turkish soap operas, Mexican telenovelas and chil-dren's cartoons were usually dubbed into Arabic. Even though one translation company monopolized the avt industry until the late 1990s, the advent of satellite tv channels created the need for additional companies (Al-Qudah 2022).…”

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Subtitling Taboo Expressions from a Conservative to a More Liberal Culture

Haider

Saideen

Hussein

2023

Middle East J. Cult. Commun.

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Subtitling involves constraints about differences between cultures. This requires a set of translation strategies, especially when subtitling from relatively conservative to more liberal cultures. This study explores subtitlers’ strategies when translating the Jordanian Arabic vernacular series Jinn into English. Jinn has been selected because it’s Netflix’s first Arabic-Jordanian series containing explicit scenes and inappropriate language. Further culture-bound expressions were classified according to their connotative functions. The findings demonstrated that subtitlers used various strategies to render culture-bound expressions from Arabic into English. These include translating the source culture taboo to a target culture taboo of the same, higher or lower intensity levels. The findings also revealed that ‘unfriendly suggestions’ and ‘noun supports’ were the most frequently targeted connotative functions of the swear words. The research recommends additional studies on subtitling movies and series cross-culture.

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Subtitling Taboo Expressions from a Conservative to a More Liberal Culture

Haider

Saideen

Hussein

2023

Middle East J. Cult. Commun.

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“…This cultural-linguistic relationship creates a mixture of linguistic elements, with Arabic being one of the most important contributions. As a result of this interaction, the structure of Indonesia is influenced by Arabic (Al-Qudah, 2022).…”

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Absorption of Arabic Vocabulary into Indonesian (Analysis of Phonology, Morphology and Meaning in the Kbbi V Dictionary)

Hamid,

Garancang,

Kasim

et al. 2024

JWS

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This research aims to detail the process of absorbing Arabic vocabulary into Indonesian, emphasizing phonology, morphology, and semantics changes. This approach is library research using the listening, tapping, and free listening methods to collect data from various sources such as books, articles, networks, magazines, newspapers, and related documents. In phonological analysis, it was found that Arabic loan words used in daily communication experienced phonological changes, including sound changes, sound weakening, and changes in certain sounds. The results showed significant changes in the pronunciation of loan words. Meanwhile, semantic analysis reveals changes in meaning in borrowing Arabic words into Indonesian, including narrowing, widening, and changes in the meaning of adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs, including changes in referential meaning. From a morphological perspective, changes in word classes are recorded, such as changes from nouns to adjectives, nouns to verbs, and other changes. The complexity of vocabulary absorption is illustrated through changes in these word classes. This research highlights that absorbing Arabic vocabulary into Indonesian is dynamic and complex. These findings have important implications for the evolution of Indonesian and interlanguage relations. Changes in phonology, semantics, and morphology reflect the complex interactions between these two languages, which will continue to develop along with changes and developments over time. This research provides deep insight into understanding the evolution of Indonesian and the dynamics of interlanguage relationships.

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Sayaheen

Darwish

2023

Babel

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This study aims at investigating the phenomenon of censoring and withholding translated books in Jordan. The source of data is a list of all banned translated books at Yarmouk University Library in Jordan (n = 60). The list was first analyzed and classified thematically. Qualitative data were obtained via semi-structured interviews with the librarians. When available, reference was made to the paratextual material of the withheld translated books. Moreover, the official website of the Jordan Media Commission was consulted to identify the factors that may contribute to censoring and blocking translated works in Jordan. The results show that librarians ban books for various religious, moral, social, political, and ideological reasons. Furthermore, it was revealed that censorship in Jordan is subjectively conducted and does not follow clear-cut rules and regulations. Finally, using paratextual elements in investigating the motives for censoring books proved to be an effective method.

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Censorship as enabling: importing, distributing, and translating foreign films in the Arab Middle East

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Subtitling Taboo Expressions from a Conservative to a More Liberal Culture

Subtitling Taboo Expressions from a Conservative to a More Liberal Culture

Absorption of Arabic Vocabulary into Indonesian (Analysis of Phonology, Morphology and Meaning in the Kbbi V Dictionary)

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