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- Title
Oaths in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociocultural and Translational Analysis.
- Authors
Al-Azzam, Bakri H.; Ababneh, Mohammad D.; Al-Qudah, Isra Kh.
- Abstract
This study attempts to investigate Jordanian oaths from a sociocultural and translational perspective. The study shows that Jordanian oaths are insufficiently explored from such a perspective. The paper uncovers that Jordanian oaths have many formulas and are taken in many social and cultural aspects such as religion, body parts, honor, headdress, curse, and Arabic coffee, among many other things. In order to conduct the study, examples resembling these different aspects of oaths are suggested, and some social and cultural details are given before the examples. To make the Jordanian oaths clear, each oath example is contextualized in a social and cultural setting and then followed by a literal translation. Finally, the examples are analyzed and discussed, translationally, socially, and culturally in order to give a ground evidence that Jordanian oaths are difficult to translate from Arabic into English.
- Subjects
OATHS; HAIRDRESSING; COFFEE; TRANSLATING &; interpreting
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p285
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/tpls.1401.34