This study deals with the translation into English of 9 cryptic security Arabic terms Palestinian prisoners have nomenclatured in response to the life conditions in Israeli prisons. These terms were collected from prison literature and through interviews with five newly freed Palestinian prisoners who served long terms in Israeli jails. The terms' functions are pragmatically explicated, and   suitable translations, capturing their pragmatic imports, are offered.  The study found that these terms have drifted from their original semantic usages and acquired new functions prompted by Palestinian prisonersʼ needs for self- and mate-security concerns. In such cases of highly contextualized language usages, the translation options range from those capturing the form and/or function to those capturing the communicative sense independently.

Title

babel

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing company

Publisher Country

Netherlands

Indexing

Thomson Reuters

Impact Factor

0.39

Publication Type

Prtinted only

Volume

65

Year

2019

Pages

648-661