Contextualizing Translation Theories ― Aspects of Arabic-english Interlingual Communication

Mohammed Farghal received a PhD in General Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1986. He is currently Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies at the Department of English at Kuwait University, Kuwait. He has published a number of articles in various peer-review linguistics and translation studies journals, including Anthropological Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, Target, and Across languages and Cultures. He is also the author of several books, such as Advanced Issues in Arabic-English Translation Studies (Kuwait University Publication Council, 2012) and has translated a number of works of fiction, including Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Ali Almanna is currently Assistant Professor of Translation at the Department of Foreign Languages in the College of Arts of the University of Nizwa, Oman. He received his MA in Translation Studies from the University of Westminster, UK, and his PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Durham, UK. He is the author of Translation Theories Exemplified from Cicero to Pierre Bourdieu: a Coursebook on Translation (2014), and the co-editor of Culguage in/of Translation from Arabic (2014). He is also the co-editor, with Professor Mohammed Farghal, of Translation between Creativity of Language and Dynamism of Culture (2013; in Arabic).