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  1. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Rendition of Certain Articles of Ḥanbalī Sharīʿa Code into English: A Comparison of Automatic and Human Evaluation of Translation Output Quality of ChatGPT and Gemini in Arabic–English Legal Translation

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafat Alwazna

  2. Integrating Technology in Translating Laws from and into Arabic: Benefits, Implications and Limitations

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

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  3. Translating Metaphor in Legal and Non-legal Quranic Verses into English: A Corpus-Based Study

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

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  4. Transediting the terms used for describing the US dollar in Arabic and English news websites: a triangulational study of transediting strategies adopted in four channels

    Article • Frontiers in Communication, July 2024, Frontiers

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  5. Translating Cultural References and Sensitive Elements Between Arabic and English: Netflix Subtitles as a Case Study

    Article • SAGE Open, April 2024, SAGE Publications

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  6. Issues addressed in Arabic legal translation: a future perspective

    Article • October 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

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  7. The Relation Between Explicitation and Translation Expertise in the Rendition of Nominalisation and Participles in Legal Qurʾānic Verses Specific to Purification and Prayer into English: A Corpus-Based Study

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafat Alwazna

  8. The use of translation theory through reconciling between Englishisation and translanguaging by Arab instructors in EMI higher education classes: Training postgraduate students to be translators and interpreters

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2023, Frontiers

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  9. Evaluating the Cognitive Dimension of Translation in Light of the Six Phases Proposed by Wilss (1996) in the Decision-Making Process: A Case Study

    Article • Arab World English Journal, December 2022, AWEJ Group

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  10. The Syntactic and Semantic Changes Associated with the Use of Modulation in English-Arabic Translation

    Article • International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies, August 2022, Tawasul International Centre for Publishing, Research and Dialogue

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  11. The Syntactic Features of Islamic Legal Texts and Their Syntactic Implications for Translation

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafat Alwazna

  12. Teaching Translation during COVID-19 Outbreak: Challenges and Discoveries

    Article • Arab World English Journal, December 2021, AWEJ Group

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  13. The Efficacy of the Integrative Model Proposed by Prieto Ramos (2014) in Surmounting Terminological Problems of Arabic-English Legal Translation

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

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  14. The Differences in Consonantal Pronunciation Between Formal English and Saudi Hijazi English and Their Implications for Oral Intralingual Translation

    Article • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  15. Issues on the Translation of Certain English Collocations into Arabic: From Collocations to Free Constructions in the Target Language

    Article • English Linguistics Research, September 2018, Sciedu Press

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  16. Translation and Legal Terminology: Techniques for Coping with the Untranslatability of Legal Terms between Arabic and English

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafat Alwazna

  17. Culture and law: The cultural impact on islamic legal statements and its implications for translation

    Article • International Journal of Legal Discourse, December 2017, De Gruyter

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  18. Translation procedures and translation stages

    Article • Babel Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation / Revista Internacional de Traducción, November 2017, John Benjamins

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  19. Pragmatic Aspect of Translation: The Interpretation-Based Inference and Its Implications for Translation

    Article • Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies, October 2017, AWEJ Group

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  20. Islamic Law: Its Sources, Interpretation and the Translation of It into Laws Written in English

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

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  21. Translation Evaluation: The Suitability of the Argument Macrostructure Model for the Assessment of Translated Texts across Different Fields

    Article • English Language and Literature Studies, November 2015, Canadian Center of Science and Education

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  22. Ethical Aspects of Translation: Striking a Balance between Following Translation Ethics and Producing a TT for Serving a Specific Purpose

    Article • English Linguistics Research, May 2014, Sciedu Press

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  23. Testing the Precision of Legal Translation: The Case of Translating Islamic Legal Terms into English

    Article • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafat Alwazna