The Impact of Language Planning, Terminology Planning, and Arabicization, on Military Terminology Planning and Translation

Abstract

The Arab military armies have been suffered from the lack of accurate Arabic equivalents for the abundant new military terminology. This is crucial because modern Arab armies have been modeled in their structure, branches, weaponry, and ranking according to modern Western and Eastern Armies. Consequently, they need a new revival of older terms to meet the fresh requirements of a modern army along with Western design. This paper aims at investigating the impact of Language Planning (LP), terminology planning, and Arabicization on the policy of military terminology and translation. It provides guidelines for the applications of language planning on military terminology at the national level in Jordan. This paper deals with the five types of LP (purification, revival, reformation, standardization, and modernization) as classified by Nahir (1977).

Keywords: Language Planning, Arabicization, Terminology Planning, Military Terminology Translation