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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"translation and interpretation"”.
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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
… "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 and after, as well as during, …
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An-Pan Man: Language and culture in a Japanese children's cartoon
… politeness markers encoded in referents for self and other, and (b) exhibited through enacted nonverbal behavior. Since the episodic An-Pan Man story is directed toward a young audience, it can be considered as a presentation that models appropriate and inappropriate language and behavior to …
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Animal names and categorisation in the Hebrew Bible : a textual and cognitive approach
… within the text, it sheds light on the methods and paradigms of categorisation used by the ancient Hebrews and thus on previously unknown aspects of their worldview. The discipline of cognitive linguistics, in particular the prototype theory of categories, is used to interpret the various types …
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Artificial intelligence based visual assessment: an explanation system for landscape aesthetic
… expert system was developed to evaluate landscape quality from the perspective of a landscape designer/architect. The rationale for the development of such a system is that it can provide explanations for final assessments and retain this information during the reasoning process. The …
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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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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… proto-Romantic focus on individual emotion and mutual sympathy. My thesis argues, by contrast, that the classicism of the early eighteenth century was inextricably intertwined with the development of sensibility, both because the new cultural importance of sympathy changed how classical …
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Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative.
… three issues remain unsettled with regard to the interpretation of Luke's passion narrative: (1) the sources that Luke employed when composing his narrative; (2) how best to translate δίκαιος in 23:47 and how this confession contributes to Luke's characterization of Jesus; and (3) the function of …
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The role of language in the process of creating meaning in a professional organisation
… setting is created, changed, sustained and 'achieved'. Its contributory value lies in the inductive development of a 'tropological approach' to the investigation of sensemaking processes in organisations.</p> <p>Positioned in an interpretive-hermeneutic tradition, the major research …
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The Spirit of the Lord and Obedience to God's Law : an Exegetical, Intertextual, and Theological Study of Ezekiel 36:27
… that he will put his Spirit within his people and he will “do” so that Israel will obey his laws. Ezekiel 36:27 indicates a close relationship between the Spirit of God and Israel in observing the statutes and judgments of God in the Babylonian exile among the nations and after the exile. In …