Linguistic losses in the translation of Arabic literary texts

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editorial note vii
4. Indroduction ix
5. Orthographic Unicode Variations in Arabic: A case study of character occurrences in news corpora 1
6. Toward an LFG account of agreement: Mismatches of numerals within Arabic NPs 13
7. A text-pragmatic approach to moot questions in Arabic 43
8. The pragmatics of denial: An information structure analysis of so-called "emphatic negation" in Egyptian Arabic 69
9. Yaʕni: What it (really) means 83
10. Citations in Arabic legal opinion: ʔiftaaʔ versus qaḍaaʔ 115
11. Language policy and factors influencing it in some Middle Eastern countries and Morocco 133
12. The perception of Arab-accented speech by American native speakers and non-native speakers from East and Southeast Asia 149
13. Linguistic losses in the translation of Arabic literary texts 173
14. Index of subjects 205