مواقف واتجاهات نحو عملية تعريب مصطلحات الهندسة المدنية في الأردن
Attitudes towards the Arabicization of Civil Engineering Terms in Jordan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7187/GJAT072018-10Keywords:
Civil Engineering Terms, Terminology, Translation, Language Planning, Arabicization, JordanAbstract
The present study aims to investigate the extent of acceptability of Arabicized civil engineering terms in Civil Engineering departments at both Yarmouk University (YU) and Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) along with some of project field engineers. The study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of these terms and whether they are actually used or not. The study examines the attitudes of the participants towards the Arabicized civil engineering terms and tackle the problems behind using them. To do so, the researchers adopted a mixed method; a qualitative method implemented in interviews and a quantitative method implemented in a questionnaire. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 244 individuals in the field of civil engineering. The results showed that the extent of acceptability for the Arabicized terms were very low even for the terms which sounded familiar to the subjects of the study. Moreover, the study reveals that Arabicizing civil engineering terms need institutional rather than individual standardization to have unified Arabicized terms and a binding political decision to enforce the use of these terms. Also, the study shows that borrowing proves to be the most suitable strategy to overcome the lack of equivalence.
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