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The project examines how German- and English-speaking translators of selected Maigret novels by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon have dealt with cultural and linguistic specificity, with a view to shedding light on how culture and language translate. Following a survey o…

This dissertation examines repetition as a method of communicating meaning in the Qur'an. Repetition--defined here as verses of the Qur'an that repeat with minor changes--is an undervalued feature of the Qur'an. The methodology used in this dissertation to investigate repetition…

The major aim in this research is to compare/contrast directive speech act sequences in selected Shakespearean plays (King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King John ) with their translated parallels in Arabic to determine if the social function of indirectness in the source …