Language, Culture, Literature, Politics, Translation and Cognition – A (very) long story cut (very) short

Abstract

A cognitive cultural politic(olinguistic)s of translation involves an investigation of what language, (and literature), translation, culture, cognition and politics are, and how they relate to each other. Any of these constructs, that can hardly be separated, is too much for any single study. The translator's self (perception of a text or discourse, personality, creativity, attitudes and biases), prior text and discourse (formal and informal education), cultural and language patterns all play an important role in translating an ancient text in the same language (intralingual translation) or translating across languages (interlingual translation as well as interpreting). The article attempts a synthesis of those grand constructslanguage, literature, translation, politics, cognition and culture -underscoring their interrelatedness. They are inseparable and what happens to, by, or through one of them inevitably affects what happens to, by, or through the others. This article explores some aspects of and connections between those constructs and investigates their impact on each other in instances of translation between Arabic and English.

Reflocutionary (Non)speech Acts in Salah Abd El-Sabour’s Ma’sat Al-Hallaj (The Tragedy of Al-Hallaj): A Cognitive Pragmatic Study

“…Pragmatics is essentially related to the study of meanings inferred or conveyed in an utterance. According to Abu-Hassoub and Mazid (2020), it is significant to realize that pragmatic context is not the reality that surrounds a communicative event, but how Muhammad F. Badr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation 'EJLT' -Volume 12, (Issue 1) -January 2024 Sohag University Publishing Center participants in the event perceive this reality (p. 80). Moreover, the requirement for an empirical foundation for pragmatic theory is emphasized by Dijk (2018).…”

Reflocutionary Speech/Non-speech Acts

“…According to Abu-Hassoub and Mazid (2020), it is significant to realize that pragmatic context is not the reality that surrounds a communicative event, but how participants in the event perceive this reality (p. 80). Instead of using the typical terms of speaker and ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation 'EJLT' -Volume 12, (Issue 1) -January 2024 Sohag University Publishing Center hearer/addressee for interlocutors, scholars of cognitive pragmatics use actor and partner.…”

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