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Subtitling Strategies and Interpretative Choices in Rendering Quranic Verses into English In Documentaries
No full textSubtitling Quranic verses in documentary films presents unique linguistic, cultural, and interpretative challenges, yet it remains an underexplored area in audiovisual translation studies. Unlike traditional Quranic translation research, which primarily focuses on written translations of the text, this study examines how Quranic verses, when naturally integrated into the discourse of documentary films, are subtitled. Drawing on a dataset of 47 Quranic verses across 10 out of 29 investigated documentary films, this research analyses subtitling strategies in films that address social, political, and cultural issues in Arab and Islamic contexts. Using Al-Shlool’s (2023) taxonomy of subtitling Islamic cultural items (ICIs), the study categorises and evaluates the techniques employed to render Quranic verses while maintaining their contextual relevance within the films. It explores whether subtitlers prioritise semantic accuracy, brevity, or contextual adaptation, and examines how these choices influence the transmission of Quranic meanings within the broader narrative of the documentaries. The findings reveal key patterns in the representation of Quranic discourse in audiovisual media, highlighting the constraints imposed by subtitle space and time, as well as the interpretative decisions that shape the portrayal of the Quran within authentic spoken interactions in documentary storytelling. By exploring the complexities of subtitling sacred texts in non-religious contexts, this study contributes to both Qur\u27anic translation studies and audiovisual translation research. It offers new insights into the intersection of Qur\u27anic discourse, media, and linguistic adaptation, shedding light on how religious texts are mediated in contemporary documentary storytelling
Subtitling Islamic Cultural Items: A Cross-Genre Analysis of Arabic Films Subtitled into English
No full textThis study investigates the applicability of Al-Shlool\u27s (2023) taxonomy of subtitling strategies for Islamic cultural items (ICIs) across various film genres beyond documentaries. The taxonomy, which includes nine strategies—loan, literal translation, substitution, transposition, addition, compensation, dummy compensation, omission, and condensation—has been applied exclusively to Arabic documentary films subtitled into English. To expand the scope of this taxonomy, the study examines ICIs in drama, comedy, and action films. A corpus of 15 films (five from each genre), subtitled into English and available on major video-on-demand platforms, was analysed. The study specifically addresses the density of ICIs in the source text (DST), genre-specific patterns in DST, and the subtitling strategies used and evaluates the effectiveness of Al-Shlool\u27s taxonomy in reflecting cultural nuances across these genres. The findings highlight how genre influences the selection of subtitling strategies, offering valuable insights into the broader applicability of the taxonomy. This research contributes to the field of audiovisual translation by exploring the genre-specific challenges of preserving cultural meaning and ensuring linguistic accuracy in subtitling
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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