Awarded full-bursary by The University of Manchester, entitled Graduate Teaching Fellowship, to study towards a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies.

Ohhh, interesting question; which leads me to a counter-question – isn't that the case for all languages?

There are core courses in literature, history and religion, and options which give the opportunity to specialise further in these subjects as well as in Islamic art and archaeology and medieval or modern thought. Students also write a dissertation on a topic of their choice. Arabic with a subsidiary language In the first year, there is less literature in the European language to allow for intensive focus on the Middle Eastern language. You will normally spend your second academic year at an approved course of study in the Middle East. You are strongly advised to spend the adjacent summers where the European language of your choice is spoken. BA in Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Which is more difficult to write and research: an English -> Arabic dictionary or an Arabic -> English dictionary? Why? For any language pair, semantic fields (by which I mean the meanings covered by a specific word) rarely overlap; only for very concrete specific things like carbon dioxide. It's always a challenge to capture the overlaps between the semantic field of word A in language A and word B in language B; and the further apart the languages are, the more difficult it gets. M.A. (Distinction) 2004: Translation and Interpreting (Arabic-English-Arabic) - The University of Salford. Dissertation entitled: “The Translation of Wordplay, Irony and Satire in the Pessoptimist by Emil Habiby. urn:lcp:oxfordessentiala0000unse_e4x0:epub:422a1aaf-e379-4556-a97b-feb25f319759 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier oxfordessentiala0000unse_e4x0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5kb5083t Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780199561155What is the biggest difficulty in writing a dictionary? What do you have to pay particular attention to? And with this, you've given an excellent example of how hard it is to find new words computationally! When we adapted the Arabic-Dutch dictionary to an Arabic-English dictionary, our Arabic editors looked at the Arabic entries, and marked ones that they said were no longer in use, so we removed those, to make more space for current words. How do you deal with dialect expressions? (Arabic slang) When creating this dictionary, we started with what's called a ‘framework'. A framework is basically the source language half of the dictionary.

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Oxford University Press had a very good English-language framework, consisting of entries already divided into senses and containing indicators, collocates, examples, and extra hints for translators to make sure they understood the English perfectly before translating it into Arabic to create the English-Arabic half of the dictionary. The English-Arabic translations were then reviewed by Arabic reviewing editors from different countries. Of course we did a lot of human reading of the corpus to find new senses like these, but as we didn't have unlimited time, things inevitably got missed – like this. Levels: Please see below for details of each level. The course for each level comprises 20 weekly classes spread over two-and-a-half terms: Michaelmas (Oct.– Dec. 2023), Hilary (Jan.– March 2024), and Trinity (April– May 2024). Because all Arabic in the dictionary is fully vocalized, we had to create our own conventions for these, which we listed in the Style Guide (a list of conventions in the dictionary, so all editors used the same rules).

After the 2011 revolution, the word الفلول was widespread, also used in Egyptian media for the remnants of the Mubarak regime. I couldn't find it in the dictionary. Would you also include such terms? Example Oxford Arabic Dictionary What is the biggest difficulty in writing a dictionary? What do you have to pay particular attention to? Do you mean like translation software? No, it's all done by humans. We do use corpus analysis software but I'm not sure if that is classed as AI. To what extent is youth language included in the dictionary? Are there letters or comments from readers that you remember? What were they about? Specific words or expressions?Lccn 2010278100 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang ar Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8413 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng+ara Old_pallet IA12541 Openlibrary_edition Passed the 2nd stage of The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition. According to what Arabic spelling conventions is the dictionary written? For example, Syrian or Egyptian spelling of the Hamza? Applications are now open for the Centre’s Arabic classes at four levels, from Complete Beginner to Upper Intermediate. Each course is two-and-a-half terms in length (40 hours total), beginning in October 2023 and ending in May 2024. Applications are now CLOSED.