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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"untranslatability"”.
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Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south
… world. I focus on moments of translatability and untranslatability to question traditional models for studies in English and comparative literature that do not account for translation. Each of my chapters shows how texts in the “original” or “translation” do not always circulate from a homogenized …
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era
… In conversation with Emily Apter's concept of untranslatability and current concerns about translation into and out of Arabic, this paper examines the cultural implications of claims to translatability and untranslatability. The ʿAbbāsid era presents a particularly useful comparison to the …
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Rendition Techniques in the Chinese Translation of Three Sanskrit Buddhist Scriptures
… also found that Xuan-Zang's fourth principle of untranslatability ""terms which are well established by precedent"" should include not only transliteration, but also translation, hybrid words and inexact renditions. The well-established terms usually refer to the basic concepts in Buddhism, and …
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Strategies applied in the english-lithuanian translation of "the economist" headlines /
The problem of untranslatability has developed over the time and various scholars came up with different solutions. There are numerous translation types, that have different translation rules. Journalistic translation is one of them and headline is the most important part of the article. While …
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Imagined Common Ground: Rethinking on Language, Translation and Technology
… happens on multiple levels, yet through the untranslatability of the unwritten to the written, a culture shaped by locality survives and mutates. The thesis also investigates how technology shapes the Chinese language in the digital age, and how standardization could possibly curb the …
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An analysis of code switching in the Namibian parliament
… of identity, to strengthen a request and untranslatability of words. The study further revealed that functions and reasons for code switching, can be used interchangeably. Moreover, the findings of the study showed that parliamentarians’ code switched because English does not have some of …
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On translating the cultural aspects in Tayeb Saleh’s season of migration to the north
Tayeb Saleh’s Novel Season of Migration to the North is a pristine mirror of society and its values, particularly that of Oriental and Western civilizations. Both civilizations have traditions which birth a necessity of communicative events, necessitating the use of culturally-specific terms and …
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Is Hamlet untranslatable? : renegotiating the boundaries of translatability in twentieth century German Hamlets
… that translators only experience the problem of untranslatability, or of Hamlet as a flawed work, when certain demands are made on the transcendent text in which Hamlet is believed to exist. The translators and adapters, whose work is the object of my analysis in the second part of this study; …