The Ambit of English/Arabic Translation. A Practical and Theoretical Guide for English/Arabic Translators

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CHAPTER SEVEN: TEXT LINGUISTICS:
Introduction and definition:Translating is a multi - faceted activity, and there is room for a variety of perspectives. This might conceivably be seen as the fragmentation of the discipline, but evidence points the other way. The discipline is consolidating and has all but forgotten its humble, slightly diffident beginnings. Consider for example, how cultural studies and text linguistics, caches its own way, have recently begun to address this issue.
Text linguistics and discourse analysis after many decades of formal linguistics, became major sources of influence on translation in 1980s. Support for an interactive view of the following text, the development of fully - fledged text - linguistic models of the translation process. As far back as the late 1960s, James Horlmes questioned the usefulness of distingusiship between translation as product and translation as process.
According to Neubert (1984: 57) (Meaning is) the kingpin of translation studies. Without understanding what the text to be translated means the translator would be hopelessly lost, the translation scholar has to be a semanticist over and above every thing else. By semanticist we mean a semanticist of the text, not just of words, structure and sentences. The key concept for the semantics of translation is textual meaning.
Division of Texts:
Texts have long been divided into categories in a number of ways depending to some extent on the nature of the as requiring their division. For example, sociolinguists, who study language in relation too social factors, adopt a breakdown based on (international varieties, in tuned based on different peoples races and individuals speaking variations of the same basic language, or on gander, age, or social class lines.
Alternatively, it has been common practice within the international English teaching community, including the specialist schools of translation and interpreting, to divide texts according to

Ali Albashir Mohammed Al-Haj was born in Sudan/ Berber in 1966. He graduated from Yemen University in 1995 with his bachelor's degree in English. He then continued his studies at the University of Khartoum, where he obtained his postgraduate diploma in 2000 and his PhD in English literature in 2003. In 2014 he finished his second PhD in translation at Omdurman Islamic University.
Now the author is working as an associate professor at Jazan University/Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has published 20 books and 15 Articles in national and international journals. Furthermore, he is a member of the Editing Board of Marco Institute Journals, the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, and scholarlink journals. He is also the supervisor of four PhD theses written in English.