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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"translation theory"”.
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era
This paper explores the theoretical approaches to translation and the dynamics of language politics during the ʻAbbāsid-era translation movement through the lens of three prominent figures of the ʿAbbāsid era, Ḥunayn ibn Isʹhāq, Mattā bin Yūnus and al-Jāḥiẓ. In conversation with Emily …
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Discourse in Eugene Nida's translation theory.
The fields of discourse and translation are by no means new areas of study. However, it is only in recent years that discourse analysis has been applied directly to translation. The primary objective of this thesis is to show that discourse is now a key concept in Eugene A. Nida's translation …
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From Bible to Babel Fish: The Evolution of Translation and Translation Theory
Translation, the transfer of the written word from one language to another, has a long history, and many important scholars have helped shape its perceptions, accepted processes, and theories. Machine translation, translation by computer software requiring little or no human input, is the latest …
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A linguistic and semantic approach to the theory and practice of literary translation
… of semantic and linguistic description to translation, theory and practice. It is aimed towards a practical model of approach to texts to translate. As literary texts [poetry mainly] are the focus of attention, so are stylistic matters. Note, however, that 'style', and, to some extent, the …
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Theories of translation and their applications to the teaching of English/Arabic-Arabic/English translating
… authorities in Arab Countries to set up translation and interpreting courses. For the same purposes, translation and interpreting courses have been set up in Europe and the U.S.A. the aim of which is to provide the market with translators able to deal with a variety of fields and …
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Legal Translation and Terminology in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
… an Aistriúcháin - the Oireachtas Government Translation section - on English-Irish legal translation and terminology, with particular focus on the period 1922-1937; a period bookended by the establishment of the Irish Free State and the enactment of Bunreacht na hÉireann (the Constitution of …
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The loss of meaning in translation : its types and factors with reference to ten English translations of the meaning of the Qur'an
… a theoretical analysis of the main trends of the translation theory, which was applied on the practical parts of the work. As for the practical parts, the study aims to analyse the source language and the target language texts in order to identify the loss of meaning in translating the Qur'an into …
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A Study into the Challenges of Subtitling English into Arabic
… the common features hindering audio-visual translation and highlighting particular cultural limitations intrinsic to translation for Arabic speaking audiences, assuming that particular fundamentals of translation theory can be beneficial in overcoming the linguistics, technical and cultural …
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La traduction de la Bible à l'époque de la Réforme.
This thesis undertakes to examine the translation of the Bible during the Reformation, i.e. in the 15th and 16th Centuries. The sudden and dramatic increase in Biblical translation during that era was such that the influence of this activity on the development of translation theory cannot be …
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
<p>This thesis derives a Korean queer theory from the shamanic feminist poetics of Kim Hyesoon, arguing that her theorization of Korean indigenous spirituality [musok] and the shaman song "Abandoned Princess Baridegi" constitutes a counter-epistemological framework capable of articulating queer …
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Le SENS de la TRANSLATION: Essays on the Bilingual Body
In his essay ‘Translation from Drawings to Buildings’, architectural historian Robin Evans argues that the translation of words can be compared to the translation of geometrical figures from one point in space to another. Yet, the substratum across which they travel, he adds, is not isotropic, and …
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The transfer of modal content in translation
… choices of TL modal expressions would make the translation acceptable. Translating is regarded, here, as an overall operation performed on two languages - an operation based on a systematic comparison of two linguistic systems and the functions they each perform at a higher level. It is taken to …
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Volume 1: Imaginative promptings: on ‘translating’ Paul et Virginie Volume 2: Genie and Paul: A novel
… commentary which posits Genie and Paul as a ‘translation’ of J. J. H. Bernadin de Saint-Pierre’s, Paul et Virginie, an eighteenth-century French novel set in colonial Mauritius. Genie and Paul explores its British Mauritian protagonists’ complex sense of cultural identity, with reference to …
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
… Three distinct strands of transcultural feminist theory are employed to provide a situated and intersectional interpretative framework: Qing Dynasty anarcho-feminist He-Yin Zhen’s gendering category of nannü; Ella Shohat’s notion of ‘subterranean feminisms’ operating in contexts outside …
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Translation and dramaturgy : translating Casina for performance
Theatre translation theory has for some time been destabilised, particularly in relation to the role of the theatre translator, by the undefined notion of ‘performability’, a concept which suggests that the linguistic choices of the translator can render the script inherently performable or …
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The French-language Reception of Grimms’ ‘Rotkappchen’ 1868-1948
… ‘version’ be reflected in subsequent French translations, and especially during periods of Franco-German conflict? This is the pivotal question addressed in the four chapters of this thesis. The first chapter focuses on the theoretical. It situates the Grimm Brothers and their influences …
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Tamám : trace, reinterpretation and the periphery of poetic translation.
… two parts: my main creative project, Tamám; four translations of the Chinese T’ang poet Yu Xuanji; and an accompanying critical commentary. Tamám is a present-day reimagining of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám consisting of one-hundred-and-one quatrains. It frames translation as a creative process …
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Mirror, Fragment, Repetition: Using Metaphor to Read Twentieth-Century French Poetry in English Translation
Reading translation theory, we note that it is nearly impossible to say anything about translation without comparing it to something else. Too rarely, however, is metaphor itself the focus of the theory. As French poetry takes more experimental forms in the twentieth century, emphasising the …
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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 Frankenstein by …
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