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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Translating and interpreting"”.
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Translating and interpreting South Africa’s cultures: art, song and dance in Mda’s selected novels
This study explores the translation and interpretation of South African cultures through art, song, and dance in Zakes Mda's following novels: Ways of Dying (1995), She Plays with the Darkness (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000), and The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013). The study employs …
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What's the story: a narrative overview of community interpreting in mental health care in Ireland
Interpreting in mental health care is generally considered a consensual activity, whereby all the participants of the interpreter-mediated encounter – the service user client, the service provider mental health professional and the interpreter – are present for the same purpose: successful …
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Relevant abuse? Investigating the effects of an abusive subtitling procedure on the perception of TV anime using eye tracker and questionnaire
… attempt to be more faithful to the source text and increase the translator's visibility. This thesis focuses on one such abusive procedure, namely the pop-up gloss. It refers to pop-up notes that explain culturally marked items appearing in each of the semiotic channels. Already popular with …
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"Tha' sounds like me arse!": a comparison of the translation of expletives in two German translations of Roddy Doyle's "The commitments"
… translated into German in 1990 by Oliver Huzly and retranslated in 2001 by Renate Orth-Guttmann. The main question of interest in the present study may be formulated as follows: 'How do two different translators deal with swearwords in the dialogue of an Irish-English literary work and what are …
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Translation of a book of evidence and its impact on a criminal trial - A case study
Interpreting in a legal setting in Ireland is not subject to any regulation. Police and court interpreters are neither certified nor tested. The current study aims to analyse the impact on a criminal trial of unqualified interpreters’ assistance in the pre-trial process. The starting point of the …
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Discussion, cooperation and collaboration: group learning in an online translation classroom
… of translation didactics, social constructivism and e-learning, it describes the design and implementation of an online module in economic translation at Dublin City University during the academic years 2003/4 and 2004/5. The main body of the work evaluates the comparative strengths and …
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Je traduis donc je suis: l'impossible entre-deux des fictions créolitaires
… the coloniser’s language. Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant ‘translate’ their Creole selves into their French narrative prose in order to articulate the paradox of being both the Same and Other. Their ‘in-between’ position presents challenges for the reader, who confronts a language at …
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An Investigation into Automatic Translation of Prepositions in IT Technical Documentation from English to Chinese
… errors in the translation of prepositions and to explore possible methods to remedy these errors. This study proposes three new approaches to improve the translation of prepositions. All approaches attempt to make use of the strengths of the two most popular MT architectures at the moment: …
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Aspects of cohesion in web site translation: a translator's perspective
… the nature of cohesion on a web site and the implications for the web site translator. It approaches the subject from the perspective of the freelance translator. Cohesion traditionally refers to the network of grammatical and lexical items in a text that combine to link different …
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Investigating the effects of controlled language on the reading and comprehension of machine translated texts: a mixed-methods approach
… language (CL) improves the readability and comprehension of technical support documentation produced by a statistical machine translation system. Readability is operationalised here as the extent to which a text can be easily read in terms of formal linguistic elements; while …
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Post-editing machine translated text in a commercial setting: Observation and statistical analysis
… combination with human post-editing. Thus understanding human post-editing behaviour is crucial in order to maximise the benefit of machine translation systems. Though there have been a number of studies carried out on human post-editing to date, there is a lack of large-scale studies on …
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
… offers a comprehensive study of the life and work of Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a love poet and panegyrist who died in AH 106 / 725 in his hometown of Medina, in the Hijaz. The dissertation reexamines the rise of monothematic love poetry in the pre- and early Islamic period, and offers …
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What is a “Helpmate”? Using Comparative Semitic Linguistics to Propose New Translations for Ezer Kenegdo
… in the Bible, in other religious discourse, and even aspects of culture influenced by elements of Jewish and Christian worldviews. The struggle with this phrase is twofold: the first difficulty lies in the association of ezer “help” with subordinate female roles. The second problem has to do …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
… in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, Butler’s theory of gender performativity, and Bassnett’s model of …
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Interpreting services provided during consultations in the medical sector : identifying shortcomings
Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban. South Africa, 2015.
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