Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia

A Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting MATI (English/Arabic/English) by Nada H. Al Sowilem entitled, "Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia," submitted in November 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Said Faiq. Soft and hard copy available.

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Main Author: Al Sowilem, Nada H. (author)
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Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8706
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Translation
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia
Newspapers
Translating
Mass media
Political aspects
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spelling Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi ArabiaAl Sowilem, Nada H.mediaTranslationpolitical discourseKingdom of Saudi ArabiadirectobliqueTranslating and interpretingSaudi ArabiaNewspapersTranslatingMass mediaPolitical aspectsA Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting MATI (English/Arabic/English) by Nada H. Al Sowilem entitled, "Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia," submitted in November 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Said Faiq. Soft and hard copy available.The aim of this thesis is to explore the interconnection between politics, the media, and translation with particular reference to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Agency and politics play an important role in both media and translation, and this is particularly so in KSA. For geopolitical reasons, KSA realized it had to be media proactive to foster its emerging regional and global position. Political discourse through the media is a complex phenomenon; it is an institutional discourse that is also a media discourse, but mediated politics. In KSA, newspapers still dominate the circulation of political discourse, including its translation. To this end, six political texts from two different newspapers, Aljazira (in Arabic) and the Saudi Gazette (in English), are analyzed according to the direct and oblique translation methods and their associated strategies as proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet (1995). The chosen texts deal with both local and international issues concerning KSA, and are translated by the two newspapers. The analysis indicates that translation from Arabic into English seems to use the two methods and their strategies more than translation from English into Arabic. This is perhaps due to the constraints of the cultural context on the translation of political discourse in KSA.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Arabic and Translation StudiesMaster of Arts in English/Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting (MATI)Faiq, Said2017-01-25T04:47:38Z2017-01-25T04:47:38Z2016-11info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdf29.232-2016.17http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8706en_USoai:repository.aus.edu:11073/87062025-06-26T12:23:49Z
spellingShingle Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
Al Sowilem, Nada H.
media
Translation
political discourse
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
direct
oblique
Translating and interpreting
Saudi Arabia
Newspapers
Translating
Mass media
Political aspects
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title Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
title_full Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
title_short Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
title_sort Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
topic media
Translation
political discourse
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
direct
oblique
Translating and interpreting
Saudi Arabia
Newspapers
Translating
Mass media
Political aspects
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8706