Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (17)

A Relevance Theoretic Approach to Explicating Humour in Subtitling Sitcoms from English to Arabic (2023)
Thesis
Rejeibi, R. A Relevance Theoretic Approach to Explicating Humour in Subtitling Sitcoms from English to Arabic. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In the domain of audiovisual translation (AVT), rendering humour is difficult due to the linguistic intricacy involved and the technical limitations of the medium. Furthermore, it is crucial in humour transfer to represent the original discourse's co... Read More about A Relevance Theoretic Approach to Explicating Humour in Subtitling Sitcoms from English to Arabic.

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
(2023). Introduction. In S. Louhichi (Ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (7-16). EB-Verlag

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume I: Case Studies (2013)
Book
Willis, D., Lucas, C., & Breitbarth, A. (Eds.). (2013). The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume I: Case Studies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199602537.001.0001

This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation acros... Read More about The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume I: Case Studies.

Negation in the History of Arabic and Afro-Asiatic (2013)
Book Chapter
Lucas, C. (2013). Negation in the History of Arabic and Afro-Asiatic. In D. Willis, C. Lucas, & A. Breitbarth (Eds.), The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, Volume I: Case Studies (399-452). Oxford University Press

The great siSwati locative shift (2010)
Book Chapter
Marten, L. (2010). The great siSwati locative shift. In A. Breitbarth, C. Lucas, S. Watts, & D. Willis (Eds.), Continuity and Change in Grammar (249-267). John Benjamins

In siSwati the accumulation of a number of changes in the morphology and syntax of locative phrases has led to a more fundamental shift of restructuring of the underlying grammatical system 13 the great siSwati locative shift 13 so that locatives i... Read More about The great siSwati locative shift.

Continuity and Change in Grammar (2010)
Book
Breitbarth, A., Lucas, C., Watts, S., & Willis, D. (Eds.). (2010). Continuity and Change in Grammar. John Benjamins