Cultural nuances in subtitling the religious discourse marker wallah in Jordanian drama into English

Abstract This study examines the strategies and challenges of subtitling the religious discourse marker والله wallah (by God) in Jordanian Arabic drama on Netflix. Two works, the series Jinn (2019) and the film Theeb (2014), are chosen as the corpus of the data. The study analyses the pragmatic func...

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Main Authors: Mohd Nour Al Salem, Sharif Alghazo, Marwan Jarrah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2025-03-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04515-6
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