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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Cultural Translation"”.
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Hellenistic astrology as a case study of 'cultural translation'
… Hellenistic astrology as a case study for 'Cultural translation' in the Greco-Roman world. 'Cultural translation' denotes here the transition of ideas and knowledge from one culture to another, making them available in the recipient culture by the ‘translation’ in its broader sense, using …
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Cultural translation problems with special reference to English/Arabic advertisements
… sexual connotations), conceptual sarcasm and cultural intertextuality, which are aimed at particular audiences, and the translation of which is determined by the elements of time and space. Localisation, according to the characters of the local market is thus the best solution for any …
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Cultural Translation: An Analysis of Chinese Tropes in Emerging Luxury Chinese Lifestyle Fashion Brands
… vigorous debate about the effectiveness of cultural translation. Edward Said (1994) has termed such an ideological ‘East’ as ‘Orientalism’ and claims that the Orient is ‘an integral part of European material civilisation and culture’ (Said, 1994, p.2). This phenomenon of the Chinese trope …
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European duplicity and an occidental passion : Graham Greene and the limits of cultural translation
… of the meeting of characters of different cultural origins - specifically the encounter of the European and the American, and the "Westerner" and the "Oriental" - in order to investigate the pitfalls of communication.
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Texts between Two Cultures: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation in the Arabic Versions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
… this research is to identify the cross-cultural translation challenges that Arab translators often encounter while translating nineteenth-century English novels. This has been done by examining translations of two well-known texts of the period, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and …
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Cultural translation from Chinese to English: a case study of the problems in the translation and interpretation of selected contemporary texts
… present thesis argues for an "extended (cross-)cultural approach to literary translation". It proposes that socio-cultural elements pertaining to a literary text extend beyond the commonly understood scope and depth of literary translation into the macro-contextual sphere, as they arise before …
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Translated people, translated texts : language and migration in some contemporary African fiction
… foregrounds the complexities of migration as cultural translation. Cultural translation is a concept which locates itself in postcolonial literary theory as well as translation studies. The manipulation of English in such a way as to signify translated experience is crucial in this regard. The …
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Die vertaling en groepering van Landeskunde elemente in geselekteerde verhale van Bessie Head
This study investigates the value of inter-cultural translation within the new South Africa with its eleven official languages. A selection of stories written by Bessie Head in which she tells stories about the customs and traditions of the Batswana were translated into Afrikaans. The stories on …
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Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality
… complicates the center-periphery model of cultural traffic. In choosing to informally engage with English poetry as bookmarks for their own lives and remaking the rules of engagement, the Wondering Minstrels is an act of cultural translation, another way of telling the literary legacy of …
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Vijayanagara in foreign eyes: a study of travel literature and ethnology in the Renaissance (1420-1600)
… of the human sciences in the European cultural tradition, in particular the empirical assumption that dominates the production of practically-oriented narratives based on the creative use of everyday language. The argument then goes on to focus on various descriptions of the South …
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Conflict management approaches in Palestinian Baptist intra-church conflict in Israel between 1990 and 2016, in dialogue with Miroslav Volf’s theology of reconciliation: an analysis and critical evaluation
… and how should they be adapted to local cultural traditions? The primary purpose of this research is to generate a local theory regarding a Palestinian theology of reconciliation which is both theologically and culturally relevant. This thesis argues that the primary factor for church …
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Divination in 1 Samuel 28 and Beyond: An African Study in the Politics of Translation
… mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. I argue that the woman of Endor is not a witch, which is a label that has a long negative social history and has often led to violence against those so labeled. The woman of Endor is, rather, a …
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Christianity in contemporary Asian American literature : (mis)-translations of the word.
… is an oppressive Western religion that imposes cultural and political "colonization" and is therefore intentionally "subverted" or "ironized" by contemporary Asian American writers. From the perspectives of Christian literary and cultural theories, however, this dissertation argues that such a …
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Kilea and a critical, reflective essay on Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader and To The Lighthouse, James Joyce's Ulysses and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
… the usefulness of Virginia Woolf’s theories of cultural translation in ‘On Not Knowing Greek’, an essay in her The Common Reader, as well as how and why Woolf enacted the transmutation of setting in To the Lighthouse from a nostalgia-tainted Cornwall to a neutral, but unfamiliar place, Skye. …
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
… identity. </p> <p>This dissertation presents translation as an entry point into theorizing the relation between the national and the global in the production of the Malaysian racial imaginary. Drawing on theories of cultural translation, I begin with the premise that translation is a process …
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Life without a mother tongue
… by migration, serial language acquisition and cultural change. The changes examined took place in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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Life without a mother tongue
… by migration, serial language acquisition and cultural change. The changes examined took place in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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Determinants of positive functional outcomes at 16 weeks after flexor tendon repair at a teritiary hospital in South Africa. A descriptive, analytical study
… the four assessment intervals, and 4) to cross-culturally translate the DASH questionnaire into isiXhosa. Method: Ethical approval was obtained through the University of Cape Town’s Human Research Ethics Committee. A quantitative, descriptive, analytical design was used. The DASH was translated …
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FOR A METHODOLOGY OF TRANSLATION CRITISIM: THE ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE SECRET SHARER BY JOSEPH CONRAD
Translation Studies encompass various more specific fields which imply tackling the phenomenon of translating from different angles: translation process analysis (synchronic approach), history of translation (diachronic approach), (inter)cultural translation studies, intersemiotic translation …
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Translation and adaptation of contemporary northeastern Brazilian drama through devising for performance: a case study of Aldri Anunciação's 'Namíbia, Não!'
… to study the use of devising techniques in the translation of contemporary Northeastern Brazilian plays for an English-speaking audience. It focuses on the analysis of the process of translation of Aldri Anunciação's Namíbia, Não! (2011) through working with a cast of two actors alongside …
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