This research explores the strategies used in dubbing Disney’s Encanto cartoons into Arabic, explicitly focusing on using EVA and MSA in the dubbed songs. The study seeks to answer three research questions: (1) To what extent did the dubber omit, add, or change information from the SL into TL to appeal to the target audience? (2) What is the effect of dubbed songs in EVA? (3) How do Arabic-speaking audiences perceive the use of cultural and linguistic references in dubbed songs and films, and how does this impact their enjoyment and understanding of the media? By using the descriptive method, the study identifies problematic issues faced during the dubbing process and analyze the translation procedures used in translating culture-bound expressions in EVA following Newmark's (1988) theory. Additionally, the study will use questionnaire to collect data from the Millennial Generation and Generation Z, consisting of 20 questions with various categories to determine their preferences in dubbing strategies. The study's primary purpose is to investigate audience preferences for Arabic language and the adaptation of the original text to local language and cultural norms. Furthermore, the study will shed light on the impact of dubbed songs in vernacular Arabic on the audience's perception and enjoyment of the media and provide insights into how cultural and linguistic references in dubbed songs and films influence audience understanding. This research explores the impact of using MSA and EVA in dubbed songs. It compares these two Arabic varieties' linguistic features, cultural references, and audience reception. By examining the differences, this study aims to deepen our understanding of how language choice influences audience engagement and how dialects reflect cultural nuances.

The importance of culture in translation is significant, where culture provides a language with its value and enriches the translated context. This study aims to identify the translation challenges faced by the translator in translating culture-bound expressions taken from the novel Two Women in One from Arabic into English. This thesis investigates the strategies the Sudanese translator, Osman Alnusairi, applies to translate the culture-specific items, assuring that the novel’s intended meaning and cultural flavor are preserved. This study employs a qualitative methodology and provides a detailed analysis of the translated cultural expressions from Arabic into English to identify cultural-related challenges faced based on Vinay and Darbelnet (1958/2000)of translating culture-specific concepts and the procedures of Newmark (1988). The findings of this thesis revealed that the translator faced barriers related to cultural expressions in translating the novel. Therefore, the translator applied some of the suggested procedures of Vinay and Darbelnet (1958/2000), and Newmark (1988) to deal with these cultural expressions. This study concludes that culture and translation are inseparable, and that culture plays a considerable role in linguistics, affecting both the source text ST and target text TT.

This is a case study that will examine political and media theories and procedures and how to apply them in the translation of Adel Al Jubeir's speeches. One of the important fields of translation is political translation. The sensitivity and importance of this field have made a huge impact on translation procedures and theories. Nowadays, the existence of world wide web made communication easier and accessible, and political materials are available at any time. This research will analyze the subtitles of the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al Jubeir’s speeches. Then, this research will analyze the Arabic subtitling of these speeches by applying the theories mentioned by Schäffner and Bassnett in their book Political Discourse, Media and Translation (2010) and other theories written by other scholar in Adel Al Jubeir’s speeches. Moreover, the thesis will discuss the challenges and issues a translator may face while translating political texts and the procedures used to overcome these challenges. The subtitled videos are from different official news agencies' YouTube channels and from amateur translators’ channels. Furthermore, the thesis will examine the most common procedures to render the meaning and produce the same effect of the ST on the audience of the TL. Also, there will be a quantitative data collection which will analyze the feedback from a survey done on a focused group of translators and journalists regarding the mentioned issues. The findings of the research have shown variations between news agencies' subtitling and amateur subtitling including stylistic features such as addition, omission, paraphrasing…etc. These stylistic features affected the quality of the subtitling presented by both subtitlers. This thesis also has shown the opinion of the focus group who participated in a questionnaire to support the purpose of this research. Furthermore, this research paper would recommend further studies on subtitled political videos covering the technical issues faced by subtitlers. Also, I would recommend for an extensive questionnaire covering a wider range of subtitlers, translators and journalists as this study was applied only on a focus group of translators and journalists

the context of functionalist approaches to translation, this thesis focuses on the functionalist theories, and the effectiveness of the functionalist translation approach in the practice of translating Islamic verdicts in Arabic fatwa, without prejudice to any of the Islamic laws. Four freelance translators were given a text of one fatwa about the rules of hijab to translate from Arabic into English without a translation brief. Then, virtual interviews were conducted to identify the difficulties they faced based on the translation approaches of their choice. The target recipients, the Muslim minority of the US, were also surveyed to check their background knowledge of these rules and the meanings of some religious terms in this fatwa. Christine Nord’s (1991/2006) well-known theoretical framework for analyzing the intra- and extralinguistic factors affecting translation was used to understand the source text (ST) as well as the target text (TT) readers of this fatwa. This framework served this research as a meta-analysis of the functional translation approach on an Islamic text and was used to present a detailed discussion of the way extratextual, and intra-textual factors interrelate for the production of a TT. The analysis of such factors proves that identifying elements of the ST is relevant for the production of the TT, as well as for the establishment of procedures to be adopted in the process of producing a new text for a specific audience and specific purposes in the target communicative situation.

This research paper assesses the translation of season-three episodes of the political satire show, Albernameg, in terms of the rendition of pragmatic meaning and referents. It also assesses the understanding of 124 extracts by the native Egyptian and English audiences. Following a mixed approach, parallel semi-structured, in-depth, individual interviews were conducted, and surveys were distributed. The interviews aimed at making generalizations and hypotheses, which were validated and tested by the surveys. The research finds that 95% of the pragmatic meaning and referents were either partially mistranslated or untranslatable. It also concludes that the native English audience, who relied on subtitles only, was not able to fully comprehend those two linguistic elements. This study lays the foundation for future research on similar Arab political satire shows that were inspired by Albernameg, since it brings new insights about the Egyptian dialect. Furthermore, its findings can be used by students, professional and practitioner translators as well as subtitlers.

Tourism web translation, as part of the commercial translation sector, has gained special attention in recent years, which is all thanks to globalization. Today, in just one click of a button on a tourism website, the tourists can plan and as well as decide on their next tourist destination. However, there appears to be limited study with the focus on cultural conceptualization and how it relates to the translation of tourism websites. In this regard, this study is aimed at analyzing the translation of a tourism website, using the Cultural Conceptual Translation Model (CCT). Two sets of corpora are used in the analysis of this study. The first set refers to the English and Arabic versions that were taken from the "Visit Saudi tourism website"(https://www.visitsaudi.com/en/). The second set of corpora refers to other English and Arabic parallel texts that were taken from commercial websites. A qualitative research methodology is conducted through a multiple choice and open-ended questions survey. Twenty-five participants responded to the survey, nine English nativespeakers and sixteen Arabic native-speakers. An extra-textual analysis was carried out on the VisitSaudi.com and parallel-text corpus. Based on the extra-textual analysis, relevant cultural dimensions particularly religious beliefs, individualism vs. collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, indulgence vs. restraint, high vs. low context communication, orality vs. literacy were recognized. The cultural dimensions are discussed in relation to the destination themes, naturescapes and adventurescapes, and how these themes are presented by the website, stylescapes. Findings revealed that identification of the cultural dimensions is essential for the translation of style and content related to the tourism destination themes as it preserves the function of Tourism Promotional Materials (TPMs) by fulfilling the target audience's expectations. We also found that TPMs in a digitized medium tend to be localized more than translated, making them more accessible to different audiences with different cultural conceptualizations, expectations and motives.

Self-translation is drawing increasing critical attention in literary and translation studies. This thesis represents a case study that examines this literary practice and its aspects. Further, it is concerned with the challenges of translating three categories of intertextual references from the perspective of self-translation in a particular literary work, namely, The Dusk Visitor by Musa Al- Halool. The study argues that self-translators will be more successful in translating intertextually- rich texts because of their thorough knowledge of the original text and its embedded references. Further, it argues that self-translation enables the author-translator to cater to the needs of the target text (TT) and its readers. The main aims of it are to provide first-hand information about self- translation by some of the Arab authors as well as examine the transparency of the translations of the ST’s intertextual references. This thesis will examine the extent to which the ST’s intertextual references were successfully translated. Additionally, it aims at suggesting strategies that can be applied to compensate in the case of translation loss. The theoretical framework of this study adopts the cultural approach to translation studies as the research approach and implements the formal translation vs. the functional translation for analysis of the possible translation approaches and strategies that were used by the author-translator. The current study follows a qualitative approach for the analysis and uses interviews as a tool to collect data about self-translation. The qualitive analysis of the identified intertextual references has two parts, describing and comparing the translations of the TT’s references with the ST’s. The qualitative analysis of the intertextual references is supported with statistical data analysis to provide a visual presentation of the numbers of the intertextual references in the source and target text as well as provide an illustration of the translation approach that was used the most. The findings of this study disprove its second hypothesis by demonstrating that the author-translator did not capture all or most of the ST’s intertextual references. However, it proves that self-translation enables the translator to cater to the needs of the TT and its readers. Finally, it suggests strategies such as paratextual devices or lexical expansion that might help in capturing the ST’s intertextual references as well as achieve the appropriate formal or functional meanin

Given the sacred and sensitive nature of the Qur'an, this study is designed to provide a thorough contrastive cultural analysis of the figurative language found in four reputable Qur'an translations (Asad's, Ali's, Hilali-Khan's and Abdel-Haleem's translations) of the four parables mentioned in Surat al-Kahf. The study highlights the challenges encountered and the strategies adopted to surmount the Qur'an-specific and culture-specific figurative language. In addition, the study proposes the adoption of communicative exegetic translation (or facilitative interpretive approach) through lexical expansion procedures as the ideal strategy to be applied particularly in translating Qur'an parables. The eclectic methodology utilized for data collection is quantitatively conducted to examine the reader's understanding of the translated Qur'an figurative language, and qualitatively conducted to contrastively analyze the cultural strategies employed in the selected translations of the aforesaid Surah, thus enhancing the study's findings and results.

Politics plays a major role in people’s lives and political discourse is usually used to influence people’s thoughts and points of view. In their speeches, politicians tend to use all the possible tools to manipulate their audience. Such tools are sometimes borrowed from pragmatics. Presupposition is one of the pragmatic tools that is widely utilized by politicians to establish a shared ground between them and their audience. The study starts to shed light on the concept of pragmatic presupposition and highlight the issue of presupposition used in political speeches in relation to translation. Then the study discusses the translation of pragmatic presuppositions found in four speeches by two US presidents, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.