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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"translated texts"”.
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Translated people, translated texts : language and migration in some contemporary African fiction
… of English in such a way as to signify translated experience is crucial in this regard. The thesis focuses on a particular angle on cultural translation for each writer under discussion: translation of Islam and the strategic use of nostalgia in Leila Aboulela's texts; translation and …
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Investigating the effects of controlled language on the reading and comprehension of machine translated texts: a mixed-methods approach
This study investigates whether the use of controlled 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 …
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A machine learning approach to the identification of translational language: an inquiry into translationese learning models
… to automatically learn to distinguish between translated and non-translated texts. The second and third major goals of this research are the retrieval of the recurring patterns that are revealed in the process of solving the task of categorisation, as well as the ranking of the most in uential …
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Translation and conflict: Arab-Spring uprisings and their impact on translation from Arabic into English
… explaining the increase in the number of titles translated from Arabic into English after 2010. Another important element that is discussed as part of this dissertation is the analysis of paratextual practices and shifts that a translated book undergoes. The expanded analysis can uncover the …
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Sounding sacred: The adoption of biblical archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th century texts
… that this is a feature of 19th century religious texts, and the Book of Mormon adopts the style of its genre as a religious text; that this is a feature of translations of ancient texts, and the Book of Mormon adopts the style of its genre as a purported translation of ancient records; that Joseph …
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The structure and implications of the global language network
… the network connecting multilingual speakers or translated texts, which I call the Global Language Network, provides a concept of language importance that is superior to simple economic or demographic measures. I map three independent global language networks (GLN) from millions of records of …
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Πνεῦμα in the Septuagint
… a lexicographical description of πνεῦμα in the translated texts of the LXX. I take a multicausal approach which considers both the source texts and discourse context of the Greek translation together as formative (to varying degrees) for word choice, and thereby also for the examination of word …
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
… results in lacunae between source text and translated text which are more marked than those which occur when rendering prose. An examination of these liminal spaces can discover both the strategies employed by the translator and the extraneous (cultural, economic, ideological) factors, which …
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Negotiating a Punctuated Landscape: A Study of Asyndetic Translation Based on Relevance Theory
… thought has been given to asyndeton in modern texts, including the translated text. In fact, if manuals on French-to-English translation even mention this troublesome case of punctuation, they almost certainly warn the student translator against replicating it in English, even in literary …
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A critical analysis of the Kiba (song-dance-drama) discourse
… competence of Kiba. The research presents the texts in Sepedi with English translations. It focuses on the description and analysis of principles governing the production and management of the discourse. Though the analysis focuses on the communicative function and value of Kiba, its main …
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Nancy Huston in Self-translation. An Aesthetics of Redoublement.
… exploring single couples of her self-translated texts presently covers a good deal of her novels, a comparative analysis of the evolution of this practice on a vast span of time was still missing. The aim of the present thesis is precisely to provide such analysis on a selection of …