The Translatability of Terms of Address in Najib Mahfouz’s Ziqaq Al-Midaq into English |
| Ekrema Shehab |
| ikrimas@yahoo.com |
| Department of English, Faculty of Arts, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. |
| Received : 21-03-2004 , Accepted : 03-10-2004 |
| Language: English |
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This paper investigates the problem of terms of address (social honorifics) in Arabic-English translation. In order to highlight the problem under discussion, the study uses five honorifics, identified by the researcher as comprising difficulties to translators, from Mahfouz’s (1947) famous novel Ziqaq-Al-Midaq. Twenty M.A. students of translation at An-Najah National University served as the subjects in this study. They were asked to translate these address terms in the light of their original contexts. The study also looks into Trevor Le Gassick’s renditions of these terms in his 1975 translation of Mahfouz’s novel. The present study argues that relational terms of address are harder to translate than absolute ones due to the fact that relational honorifics have drifted extensively from their traditional usages and acquired new significations which are initiated for social purposes. |
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The Translatability of Terms of Address in Najib Mahfouz’s Ziqaq Al-Midaq into English
The Collapse of Grammatical Rules Under the Pressure of Semantic Content: Subject-Verb Concord
The Collapse of Grammatical Rules Under the Pressure of Semantic Content: Subject-Verb Concord |
| Ibrahim Al–Shaer |
| ishaer2000@yahoo.com |
| Al-Quds Open University, Bethlehem Educational Region, Bethlehem, Palestine |
| Received : 09-07-2003 , Accepted : 15-06-2004 |
| Language: English |
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The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to examine the extent to which English native speakers' abide by the grammar rule of concord that the verb must agree with its subject in number, and (ii) to highlight the implications of the obtained results for EFL teaching/learning process. For this purpose, a test consisting of 23 concord items was devised and presented orally and in writing to two different groups of English native speakers. The results showed that the majority of native speakers do not actually follow the formal rule of concord and resort to other kinds of concord under the pressure of semantic content. These findings have pedagogical implications for EFL teaching/learning process. EFL teachers, when teaching grammar, should take into consideration not only what traditional grammars say but also what native speakers actually say. |
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Book Review: Teaching The Thinking Skills
Book Review: Teaching The Thinking Skills |
| Fawaz Aqel |
| f_aqel2001@Yahoo.com |
| Department of Teaching Methodology, Faculty of Educational Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine |
| Received : 09-03-2004 , Accepted : 17-08-2004 |
| Language: Arabic |
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A Bride’s Package in the Light of Islamic Law and the Personal Status Law
A Bride’s Package in the Light of Islamic Law and the Personal Status Law |
| Marwan Qadomi |
| alfeqhdep@najah.edu |
| Received : 31-08-2003 , Accepted : 15-06-2004 |
| Language: Arabic |
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This research aims at introducing a study of one side of the rights of wives in the personal status law. We have introduced this study with the lawfulness of the dowry in Islam and the rights of women in getting a dowry and a dwelling suitable for matrimonial life. The study also highlights the obstacles that encounter marriage and ways of dealing with them according to Islamic faith. It also undertakes the issue of a bride’s package, its problems, disputes and its traditional norms in same areas; it also deals with the law governing on bride’s package (dota) for nonmuslims. The research concludes with a call for revoking the dominant traditions which do not agree with the Islamic law, and with the major results that the research arrives at. |
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Home Study Environment for Palestinian Students in Basic and Secondary Cycles During Al-Aqsa Intifada
Home Study Environment for Palestinian Students in Basic and Secondary Cycles During Al-Aqsa Intifada |
| Jawdat Saadeh, Ismael Abu Zyada, Rohi Abadat |
| profjawdat@yahoo.com |
| Received : 17-05-2003 , Accepted : 15-06-2004 |
| Language: Arabic |
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The main purpose of the study was to define the role of five variables that include sex, number of rooms inside the house, family size, grade levels, and the directorate, on the home study environment for Palestinian students in grades ninth, tenth and eleventh during Al-Aqsa Intifada. To achieve this purpose, the researchers developed a (29) item questionnaire that presented to a group of jury to insure its validity and they applied Cronbach Alpha formula to calculate its reliability, and it was (0.90). Means, percentages, "t" independent test, One Way ANOVA and Schefee test for multiple comparisons were used to analyze data collected. The results showed the followings: |
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The Principles Based on Overusage According to Al-Farra` in the Light of his Book (Ma’ni Al-Kor’aan)
The Principles Based on Overusage According to Al-Farra` in the Light of his Book (Ma’ni Al-Kor’aan) |
| Hamdi Al-Jabali |
| arabdep@najah.edu |
| Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine |
| Received : 09-08-2003 , Accepted : 02-12-2003 |
| Language: Arabic |
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The intent of this research was to examine the concept of overusage according to AL-Farra` through picking up the linguistic phenomena that he subjucated to the domination of usage and / or overusage and surveyed them interpretably so that he might support his doctrine and construct his principle. The research also brought into view that AL-Farra` was a precursor in admitting that language is subjucated to the effect and interference of usage on directing what was on everybody`s lips or what was frequently used or repeated for the more a thing is overused or is plain in meaning, the mild it will be in speaking and it will become much more permissible than any others. |
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Economic Means of Adaptations for Palestinian Refugees During Al-Aqsa Intifada (A Comparative Study)
Economic Means of Adaptations for Palestinian Refugees During Al-Aqsa Intifada (A Comparative Study) |
| Mahmoud Abu-Alrub |
| abualrub@yahoo.com |
| Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine |
| Received : 24-07-2004 , Accepted : 20-02-2005 |
| Language: Arabic |
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The study aimed to identifying the means that enable the Palestinian refugees in the West-Bank and Gaza-Strip to over come the deteriorating economic situation, and the low standard of living during the Al-Aqsa intifada. To achieve that, the study was conducted on a sample of 637 persons, which represented %1 of the total refugees, astrarified random sample used to collect the data. The study reveals that the Israeli military and economic blockades have seven economic impacts on the lifes of the Palestinian refugees. However, the refugees mange to adapt themselves to the new economic situation by many ways such as: the exhaustion of savings, the spending on basic needs, the postponement of the payment of water and electricity bills, the financial borrowing from family and relatives, working over times, the intensification of agriculture and home-economy, and the use of children in the laber –market. In the light of the finding the researchers put forward a number of recommendation such as conncting reliefe with developments. |
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