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This is your one-stop practical guide to translating text from English into Arabic. This clearly structured guide will help learners who already have a basic grasp of Arabic to hone their translation skills. The texts chosen for translation exercises have been carefully selected from a variety of authentic, contemporary sources to introduce learners to the stylistic features they will encounter, helping them to develop their skills across a range of genres. It provides examples that cover media, legal, scientific & technical, literary, religious and administrative texts. It offers clear explanations and worked examples that develop your understanding of the translation process. It includes lots of drills and exercises that help you to enhance and refine your translation skills. Exemplary translations to check your own work against: perfect for self-learning.
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El Mustapha Lahlali is Lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. Wafa Ali Mohammed Abu Hatab is Part-Time Lecturer in Translation at the University of Jordan
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Your one-stop practical guide to translating text from English into ArabicThe skills you need for translation are presented here in a clearly structured way, allowing you to develop your abilities across a range of genres. A variety of authentic, contemporary and historical texts are presented, each selected to include important stylistic features.Seven modules – including one practising basic skills – cover literary, economic, scientific, media, administrative and legal texts to help you:•develop an understanding of the translation process•enhance and refine your translation skills•work through numerous translation drills and exercisesAimed at advanced Arabic learners and translators, this textbook takes an efficient and practical approach. You are encouraged to utilise the concepts and theoretical frameworks outlined through a wide range of drills with the aim of improving and strengthening your translation skills. Each module ends with revision material to give you a chance to consolidate what you have learned.El Mustapha Lahlali is Associate Professor and Director of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. He is author of several Arabic language textbooks including Advanced Media Arabic (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), How to Write in Arabic (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).Wafa Abu Hatab is an Associate Professor and the former Director of the Centre for Translation at Zarqa University, Jordan. She has a wealth of experience in teaching English–Arabic translation. She is co-author, with El Mustapha Lahlali, of Ibn al-Tayyib: The Forgotten Journey of an 18th-Century Arab Traveller (2010).Cover image: © tamer yazici/iStockphotoCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com
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Edinburgh University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 0748645837
ISBN 13: 9780748645831
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Summary:Your one-stop practical guide to translating text from English into Arabic. Learn all the skills you need to translate from English to Arabic in this clearly structured guide. The extracts from a variety of authentic, contemporary texts have been carefully selected to introduce you to important stylistic features so that you can develop your skills across a range of genres. Key Features. For learners who already have a grasp of basic Arabic and are looking to improve their translation skills Examples cover media, legal, scientific & technical, literary and administrative texts Clear explanations and worked examples develop your understanding of the translation process Lots of drills and exercises help you to enhance and refine your translation skills. Seller Inventory # BGLANG113