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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Translation Studies"”.
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Theorizing in Unfamiliar Contexts: New Directions in Translation Studies
… attempts to offer a reconceptualization of translation analysis. It argues that there is a growing interest in examining translations produced outside the discipline‟s historical field of focus. However, the tools of analysis employed may not have sufficient flexibility to examine …
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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
… 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 features, and is integrated within a qualitative, comparative, and interdisciplinary framework. The …
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Translation after Wittgenstein
… use to the reflective practitioner of literary translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key figure in twentieth-century philosophy, remains peripheral to the field of translation studies and I argue that his later work, because it deals with the nature of language and meaning, is potentially of great …
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Metaphors in translation : an investigation of a sample of Quran metaphors with reference to three English versions of the Quran
… three well known English versions of the Quran translations. In addition, the study highlights the root causes which may be deemed to be a source of misunderstanding Quran metaphors. The study also aims to find out to what extant metaphors of the Quran can maintain their sense in today's …
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20th century lipogrammatic novels and their translations
… the translator with specific problems. In Translation Studies, it is often suggested that in such cases the limits of translatability are reached. The translator has to take decisions, evaluate the importance of the individual aspects of individual ST items and try to render as much as …
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La traduction comme poétique Édouard Glissant, Paul Ricœur : expériences et regards croisés
… of this thesis is to examine the reflections on translation proposed by the French-Martinican poet, writer, and philosopher Édouard Glissant, and the French philosopher Paul Ricœur. By bringing their perspectives into dialogue, the study analyses and compares their distinct conceptions of …
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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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Translating the musical Les Misérables : a polysystemic approach
… and evolution of literary systems, of which translation is one part. Developed by Itamar Even-Zohar and Gideon Toury, the Polysystem's most important contribution to Translation Studies is that it has generated a methodology. This thesis uses the Polysystem theory as an heuristic tool to …
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A machine learning approach to the identification of translational language: an inquiry into translationese learning models
In the eld of Descriptive Translation Studies, translationese refers to the speci c traits that characterise the language used in translations. While translationese has been often investigated to illustrate that translational language is di erent from non-translational language, scholars have also …
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Denise Brahimi 'Nadine Gordimer la femme, la politique et le roman' : traduction et activités traduisantes
The nature of the translation process, that is, what occurs in the translator's mind when attempting to translate thoughts and ideas from one language to another, remains an enigma. The focus of this dissertation falls within the relatively unexplored field of "process-orientated descriptive …
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Translators as Scribes--A Comparison of Scribal Practice and Translation Practice: Exodus 1-14 in the Hebrew Manuscript Tradition and the Old Greek
… world. Drawing on theory from the field of Translation Studies and a comparative analysis of textual and translation data in Exodus 1-14, I argue that the phenomena of translation and textual transmission are fundamentally similar, particularly in the case of the Hebrew Bible and the …
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Approaching Africa: The Reception of African Visual Culture in Germany 1894-1915
… fields of research. By introducing theories from translation studies this thesis will identify how scholars from different disciplines analysed and interpreted African art in order to mediate their function, meaning and formal aspects to a German audience. The main focus is on the changing …
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The literary and non-literary text: translating and discourse
… 1 provides an overview of the current issues in translation studies and a brief historical account of the translation debate over the past twenty years or so. The muchdebated issue of equivalence is discussed and the polarisation of the debate between target text and source text is mentioned here …
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Translation and interpreting as instruments of language planning in South Africa : focus on court interpreting
… linguistic diversity calls for extensive use of translation and interpreting. This study is located in the field of Applied Language Studies. It investigates the intersection between Language Planning and Translation Studies. The thesis argues that Language Planning needs to devote more attention …
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On Ezra Pound's Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay
This thesis focuses on Ezra Pound's translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay. A comparative study of Pound's translations with the original Chinese poems and versions by other translators is conducted. The theoretical framework adopted is Toury's (1995) Descriptive Translation Studies …
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Exploring the translation of feminist philosophy :Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe
The thesis explores the second English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe, with the objective to contribute to bridging the gap between Gender Studies and Translation Studies. My contention is that foreignization, often presented in the literature as a more ethical approach to …
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Who Framed Conrad Black?: Language and Translation in Print Newspaper Articles
… to examine news reports for evidence of assumed translation as defined by Toury (1995). The theories and methodologies drawn on derive from linguistics, discourse analysis, media studies, cultural studies, and translation studies. By applying a multidisciplinary approach and conducting …
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Toward a systematic approach to translation skills instruction
… approach was taken to investigate translation processes with the objective of establishing the foundation for a systematic approach to the teaching of translation skills for professional purposes. A model of translation in terms of social, communicative processes was developed on …
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"The cockroach and the rooster" : a translation, with preface, of Tchicaya U Tam'si's Les cancrelats
This is a translation, accompanied by a preface, of the first published novel by this Congolese writer. Although U Tam'Si's prose is classical, the novel's form is far from being linear, the narrative veers off and is subsequently woven into a complex narrative of stories, dreams, songs, proverbs, …
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