IJAES - International Journal of Arabic-English Studies

31/08/2021

We are heading towards APETAU-MEU conference in Amman 24-25 Nov. 2021

27/05/2021

I am pleased to report that Vol. 21, Issue 2 is in the pipeline.
IJAES has never negotiated its standards. We are in the lead with our Scopus Q1 classification.

15/02/2021

طابت أوقاتكم
صدر المجلد 21، العدد 1 من المجلة وهو متاح للجميع على موقعنا.
شكرا لجميع من جعلوا هذا ممكنا.

28/12/2020

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28/12/2020

We are pleased to report that Volume 21, Issue 1 is in the pipeline.
Jihad Hamdan

14/06/2020

إنجاز عظيم لمجلة جمعية أساتذة اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها والترجمة في الجامعات العربية
فقد انتقلنا من Q2 إلى Q1 ضمن التصنيف العالمي سكوبس Scopus
أهنىء الهيئة الإدارية وأعضاء الجمعية كما أهنىء هيئة تحرير المجلة ومساعدي رئيس التحرير وممثل رئيس التحرير في التواصل مع سكوبس على هذا القطاف الجميل
ستظل راية IJAES خفاقة عاليا في عالم المجلات العالمية الرائدة
والشكر موصول لجامعة الزرقاء على دعمها المتواصل منذ سنوات للجمعية والمجلة وأخص بالذكر رئيس مجلس الإدارة الدكتور محمود أبو شعيرة.
رئيس هيئة التحرير ورئيس الجمعية
جهاد حمدان

16/03/2020

It is my pleasure to inform you that Volume 20, Issue No. 1 is out on IJAES website.
Please visit: ijaes.net

28/07/2019

Featured Article
Hanan Al-Jabri
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Tone is the way the author expresses an attitude toward the subject. Tone often poses a challenge for translators. The present study is comparative as it explored two Arabic translations of the same Afghan Women's Poetry (Landay). The first translation was done by Jamil Salah in 2002 from the French...

25/07/2019

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Faiza Mahfouf and Mahmoud F. Al-Shetawi
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The study sheds light on the folkloric tradition of oral storytelling which has been used as an act of resistance in Ernest Gaines’s A Gathering of Old Men (1983). The marginalized black characters decide to voice their tragedies so as to empower each other to counter the discourse of White suprem...

22/07/2019

Featured Article
Nisreen Yousef
Keywords: , , , , ,

This paper investigates Tariq Ali’s representations of Islamic civilization and the relationship between Islam and the West during the medieval times in his novel A Sultan in Palermo (2005). The paper argues that by means of resorting to history, Ali reflects on the current affairs between Islam a...

18/07/2019

Featured Article
Ala’Eddin Abdullah Ahmed Banikalef
Keywords: gender differences, Jordanian speech community, Searle’s taxonomy, Facebook status updates, netspeak language

This study of speech acts offers deep insights into the social structure and gender differences of any speech community. Most relevant research on online speech acts has shed much light on Western speech communities, neglecting the speech act behavior of Arabic speaking communities. This study aimed...

17/07/2019

Featured Article
Zainab Alsuhaibani
Keywords: EFL reading self-efficacy, reading strategies, language learning, reading process.

This study investigated the relationship between female EFL students' use of reading strategies and their reading self-efficacy. The participants were 191 female Saudi students majoring in English at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. Two questionnaires; a reading strategy questionnaire and....

15/07/2019

Featured article
Mahmoud Zidan
Keywords: Detective fiction, counter-detection, mapping, Palestine, Zionism, A Palestine Affair

This paper explores Jonathan Wilson’s A Palestine Affair (2003), reflecting on the parallels between its underlying logic on one hand and the illogic of liberal Zionism and the state of Israel on the other hand. The paper revolves around the rationalizing, detective apparatus deployed in the novel...

14/07/2019

Featured Article
Abdul Fattah Abu Ssaydeh
Keywords: allusion, intertextuality, The Waste Land, translation.

Despite the numerous Arabic translations of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, the poem continues to fascinate, attract and challenge Arab academics, poets and translators alike. The major difficulty in translating it arises from its extensive use of intertextuality. This paper examined how three academ...

13/07/2019

Featured Article
Murad Hassan Mohammed Sawalmeh
Keywords: communicative moves, genre analysis, generic structure, linguistic features, obituary announcement

This paper gives a detailed account of the distinctive macro-structural and micro-linguistic properties used in Muslim and Christian obituaries in Jordan society. It also examines how socio-religious practices and beliefs are played out through the overall genre text. In order to examine the discour...

09/07/2019

Featured article

According to Koby (2014), translation assessment for pedagogical implications needs to be investigated further. This paper discusses how translations of university senior students in the Jordanian context are assessed by university translation teachers, employers in the translation labour market and...

07/07/2019

Featured Article, Volume 19 issue No. 2
Keywords: Latour, Bourdieu, translation, Mahfouz, Nobel Prize
Linda Alkhawaja

Translation is a social practice and cultural product practiced by agents and produced by institutions in different subjects; hence, it can be studied from various sociological perspectives. This study explores translation activity through a network of various human and non-human agents by adopting....

06/07/2019

Featured Article. Volume 19 issue No. 2
Keywords: deictic shifts, English-Arabic fiction translation, person deixis, point of view, translation norms
Othman Abualadas

This paper reports on deictic shifts in fiction translation. It examines the shift in person deixis in two Arabic translations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The goal is to trace how the process of translation may change the narratorial point of view of the original, a territory in English-Arab...