Ali Darwish

TL;DR: The authors examines the social semiotics of Arabic television and the socio-cultural impact of translation-mediated news in Arabic satellite television, with the aim to carry out a qualitative content analysis, informed by framing theory, critical linguistic analysis, social semiotic and translation theory, within a remediation framework which rests on the assumption that a medium “appropriates the techniques, forms and social significance of other media and attempts to rival or refashion them in the name of the real" (Bolter and Grusin, 2000: 66).

TL;DR: A model of translation constraints management is presented and it is shown how these constraints work within the translation system and how they can be managed and ideally removed within a model or a framework of constraint management.

TL;DR: While the question of who assesses the assessor has been a thorny issue in the translation profession and one of the major initial obstacles encountered by accreditation and professional bodies, the competence of the translator assessor and the translation quality assuror has not been seriously addressed if at all.

TL;DR: It is argued that synchronicity of voice-overs stemming from the rhetorical features of the voice-over styles of delivery and the idiosyncrasies of the voices creates dissonance and renders the original message with a degree of infelicities that undermine the long-celebrated standards of objectivity and neutrality.