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Neumann, Birgit. "The Uneven Travels of World Literature." Journal of World Literature 5, no. 1 (February 14, 2020): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00403200.
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Abstract The essay engages with possibilities of translating Creole in Anglophone world literatures and investigates the socio-political frames within which translations occur. It has been argued that it is impossible to translate, read and understand the connotations of Creole without their historical and cultural contexts, from which these linguistic varieties are derived and which they conversely help produce. Texts thriving on Creole, such as Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, are highly context-sensitive and call for close, historically and locally grounded readings. The translation and translatability of Creole begs crucial questions concerning the common understanding of world literature as travelling texts. The essay discusses these questions with an eye to the role of English as a global literary vernacular, before moving on to examine Miriam Mandelkow’s recent German translation of Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.
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N’Zengou-Tayo, Marie-José, and Elizabeth Wilson. "Translators on a Tight Rope: The Challenges of Translating Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 13, no. 2 (March 19, 2007): 75–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037412ar.
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Abstract Translators on a Tight Rope: The Challenges of Translating Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory and Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco — For Caribbean intellectuals and scholars, translation of Caribbean literary texts has a key role to play for breaching the language barriers in the Caribbean and fostering regional integration. However, most publishing houses are located in the industrialized North, i.e. in countries which had colonial interests in the region. The targeted market of these publishers is located in a region which tends to exoticize the Caribbean. Henceforth, translating Caribbean literature can be like walking on a tight rope, since the translator would have to negotiate carefully between exoticism and faithfulness to the Caribbean culture. In addition, at least for the Dutch, French and English-speaking Caribbean, there is also the issue of bilingualism: use of French in relation with use of Haitian / Martinican / Guadeloupian Creole, use of English with Jamaican / Trinidadian Creole or a French-based Creole (Dominica, Grenada, and St Lucia). Against this background, we examined two translations, one from English into French (Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, 1994), the other from French into English (Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco, 1992). We analyzed the translators' strategies in order to convey the Haitian and Martinican cultures. We also discussed their rendering of the bilingual shifts present in both texts. One translator was more successful than the other, which also raised the issue of 'scholar' translation versus 'non scholar' translation. In conclusion, Caribbean academics have to be watchful of the translations of literary works of the region since these translations, which do not aim primarily at the regional audience will nevertheless impact on cultural relationships in the region.
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Lionnet, Francoise. "Creole Vernacular Theatre: Transcolonial Translations in Mauritius." MLN 118, no. 4 (2003): 911–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mln.2003.0078.
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Pandey, Shrestha. "INDIAN DIASPORA AND TRANSLATION STUDIES IN MAURITIUS." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 7, no. 12 (June 8, 2020): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i12.2019.304.
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The present paper aims to study the functions of literary translation and Indian diaspora writers with special reference to Mauritius, a small island being multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual. Our study includes the presentation of the situation of literary translation in Mauritius and analysis of some of the major works translated to query challenges of post-colonial translation. The corpus includes two translations chosen where Mauritian Creole is now part of the target language (eg Boy, transcreation of Misyon garsonby Lindsey Collen). The translation into Creole an, in fact, literalization of language and to establish a literary heritage. The translation is rewriting in our two Mauritian authors, which in the case of the rewriting of The Tempest in Creole, Dev Virahsawmy makes speech-cons when choosing this time to rewrite the Creole English and Lindsey Collen, aims to make available the novel-reader Mauritius. The handwriting in Lindsey Collen also helps address the problem of translation of spoken language (Creole) in a written language.
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Bogle, Desrine. "Traduire la créolisation." Translating Creolization 2, no. 2 (December 23, 2016): 181–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.2.2.01bog.
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This article proposes the translatological approach called intracultural translation, that is, translation within the same language-culture, coined by Desrine Bogle (2014), with specific reference and application to the Creole language using H. P. Grice’s conversational implicature, Venuti’s application to translation, and Roman Jakobson’s intralinguistic translation as theoretical frameworks. Mirroring the approach of the translator working within Romance languages who employs the Latin roots of these languages to judiciously resolve difficult translation issues, the concept of intracultural translation reinforces the notion of a Creole world view, product of a shared history, as evidenced through a shared linguistic and cultural heritage or “storehouse” from which translators of Creole texts can freely select elements to undertake their activity of intercultural transfer. In seeking to affirm and maintain the cohesiveness of Creole identity against the homogenizing effect of globalization, intracultural translation, currently underexplored and underexploited, is presented as a viable translatological approach to texts in Creole. Intracultural translation is exemplified through a case study of the English translations of three French Creole proverbs in the French Caribbean novel Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle by Simone Schwarz-Bart.
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Stahl, Aletha. "Does Hortense Have a Hoo-Hoo? Gender, Consensus, and the Translation of Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance-macadam." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 13, no. 2 (March 19, 2007): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037414ar.
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Abstract Does Hortense Have a Hoo-Hoo? Gender, Consensus, and the Translation of Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam — This article uses an experiment in translating Guadeloupean writer Gisèle Pineau's novel L'espérance-macadam via consensus as a point of departure for analyzing the broader context of translating the French Caribbean for an English-speaking public. Previous efforts at translating recent French Caribbean fiction have focused on the challenge of representing the linguistic spectrum specific to the franco- and creolophone Caribbean. Here, it is suggested that Pineau's particular choices in inflecting French with Creole represent women in important ways, and that an awareness of this gendering of language is germane to translation into English. It is also acknowledged that desires on the part of English-speaking translators are not necessarily innocent but that an awareness of gender and local specificities can contribute to the consensus process entailed in publishing translations and should be part of ongoing debates concerning the French Caribbean in general.
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Grau-Perejoan, Maria. "The role of literary translators in the West Indian literary field and the importance of Creole." Translating Creolization 2, no. 2 (December 23, 2016): 241–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.2.2.04gra.
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Stemming from the belief in both the potential transformative power of art and the intellectual’s role in social struggles, this article foregrounds the figure of the literary translator as an intellectual that holds the potential to contribute to the advancement of Caribbean narratives through his or her ethically and politically motivated translations. The article uses Pierre Bourdieu’s theorizing to emphasize on the necessarily collaborative nature of the role of literary translators of West Indian literature. Furthermore, since most frequently than not Creole languages are an integral part of West Indian texts, this article pinpoints the translator’s ability to both discern and understand Creole as a crucial aspect for translations to be engaged and participate in regional ideological struggles.
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Niles, Glenda. "Translation of Creole in Caribbean English literature." Translating Creolization 2, no. 2 (December 23, 2016): 220–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.2.2.03nil.
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This paper explores the use of Creoles in Caribbean English Literature and how it tends to be translated into Spanish by analyzing the Spanish translations of two novels written by Caribbean author, Oonya Kempadoo. Kempadoo is a relatively new and unknown author. She was born in England to Guyanese parents and grew up in the Caribbean. She lived in several of the islands, including St. Lucia and Trinidad and at present resides in Grenada. Apart from being a novelist, she is a freelance researcher and consultant in the arts, and works with youth and international organizations, where she focuses on social development. Her first novel, Buxton Spice, was published in 1998. Described as a semi-autobiography by Publisher’s Weekly, it has also been praised for being original and universal in the portrayal of its themes. It is the story of a young girl growing up in Guyana during the Burnham regime. It is written as a series of vignettes, which contributes to the seemingly quick development of Lula from childhood to adolescence, as she learns to explore her sexuality. This novel has been published in the United Kingdom and the United States, and has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Hebrew. The version used for this investigation was translated by Victor Pozanco and commissioned by Tusquets Publishers. Kempadoo’s second novel, Tide Running, also forms part of this investigation. As the 2002 winner of the Casa de las Américas Literary prize for Caribbean English and Creole, this novel was translated into Spanish by a Cuban translator as a part of the award. It is the story of an unambitious Tobagonian youth who becomes entangled in a bizarre relationship with an interracial couple. The story highlights several issues, such as poverty, race and social class differences, sex and right and wrong. As a researcher, I felt that it would be enlightening to see how a Caribbean translator, from a country (Cuba) with limited access to mass cultural currents commonplace elsewhere, handles this piece of prose which is so heavily steeped in Trinbagonian culture.
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Joseph-Gabriel, Annette K. "Creolizing Freedom: French–Creole Translations of Liberty and Equality in the Haitian Revolution." Slavery & Abolition 36, no. 1 (February 18, 2014): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039x.2014.888869.
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November, Kiat. "The Hare and the Tortoise Down by the King’s Pond: A Tale of Four Translations." Meta 52, no. 2 (August 2, 2007): 194–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/016065ar.
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Abstract This paper looks at the linguistic situation on the island of Mauritius, as revealed by the analysis of four translations of a folk-tale, originally an oral tale recounted by African slaves. The languages involved are Mauritian Creole, French and English. A brief account of the Mauritian historical and socio-linguistic development is given to contextualize my investigation. I then examine the translations from the conceptual framework of ideology, arguing that not only were they the instruments of the translators’ ideological convictions but that, in the process, they also came to symbolize the asymmetrical linguistic relations in Mauritius.
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van der Auwera, Johan. "Nominal and pronominal negative concord, through the lens of Belizean and Jamaican Creole." Linguistics 60, no. 2 (January 17, 2022): 505–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0137.
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Abstract The article aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord through a comparative analysis of nominal and pronominal negative concord in Jamaican and Belizean Creole, based on the translations of the New Testament. It supplies a general characterization of Jamaican and Belizean negative concord and then focuses on negative concord with a negator like what corresponds to English not and either a pronoun or a nominal like what corresponds to English nobody or no man, respectively. The paper makes a strong plea for studying nominal negative concord in its own right. It shows how it differs from pronominal negative concord and for both it lays bare a variety of non-concordant patterns. It explains the variation in terms of a number of principles, one of which is what is standardly called the ‘Negative First’ principle, but it is defined in a new way. The article shows that there can be concord with definite negative nominals.
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ÉTIENNE, CORINNE. "The lexical particularities of French in the Haitian press: Readers' perceptions and appropriation." Journal of French Language Studies 15, no. 3 (November 2005): 257–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269505002152.
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Regional French varieties in language contact situations have been widely discussed in Francophone studies. Defining a variety of French involves showing its specificity when compared to other French varieties, assessing its sociolinguistic functionality, and reporting on its speakers' linguistic representations (Robillard, 1993a). This article probes the reactions of a group of the Creole/French bilingual Haitian elite to a sample of lexical particularities drawn from a corpus of the Haitian press (1986–1998). It reports on participants' tolerance or stigmatization of these particularities and explores the reasons for their reactions. Findings indicate participants' concern with creolisms, notably those that are politically related or literal translations from Creole. This concern reveals participants' linguistic ambivalence and reflects the bilingual elite's linguistic identity, which is still influenced by Haiti's colonial past.
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Adonis-Rizzo, Marie, Ruth Tappen, Monica Rosselli, David Newman, Somi Panday, and Joshua Conniff. "DISPARITIES IN MOCA AND MMSE SCORES AMONG DIVERSE OLDER ADULTS: A CASE ANALYSIS OF CREOLE-SPEAKING PARTICIPANTS." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.2601.
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Abstract Almost 11% of older adults in the US have Alzheimer’s or related dementia. Most studies suggest that those who are Black or Hispanic are at higher risk. A culturally diverse sample, including Haitian older adults, was recruited from South Florida communities to participate in a longitudinal study, “In-Vehicle Sensors to Detect Change in Cognition of Older Drivers.” An extensive cognitive battery was administered for comparison with driving behaviors. No validated translations in Creole were available, so three Haitian-born examiners translated and back-translated test items into Creole. Two additional bilingual examiners verified the results. An analysis of variance (ANCOVA) comparing Haitian participants (N=12) and European Americans (N=135) on the MoCA controlling for age and education indicated the European American group scored higher (M = 25.78, SD = 2.57) than the Haitian Group (M =24.17, SD = 3.01), a significant difference in test performance, F (1, 124) = 6.11, P= .015. Results on four subscales of the MoCA evidenced significantly higher scores for the European American group: Visual EX Total, F (1, 124) = 22.52, p < .001; Serial-7, F (1, 124) = 12.09, p <.001; Attention Total, F (1, 124) = 5.10, p <.001; Letter Score F (1, 124) = 13.09, p <.001. No differences in language, abstract, delayed recall, or orientation were found. These preliminary results suggest cultural influences may account for differences in test performance. Further investigation with a larger sample of Haitian older adults is needed to explain differences in performance on this widely used test.
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Woodsworth, Judith Weisz. "A Language for Israel: The Role of Translation in Building the Resources of Hebrew." Contemporary Review of the Middle East 6, no. 3-4 (September 2019): 224–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2347798919872576.
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Contrary to common misperceptions, translation is not merely a subsidiary or secondary art but is a critical, productive, and generative process. At key moments in history, translation has helped to strengthen languages, build national literatures, and construct national identities. The case of Hebrew provides a unique example of an ancient sacred language that has evolved into a modern and functional one, now the primary official language of Israel. This article provides an overview of translational activity in Israel, with a focus on the profound impact that translation has had on the development of the Hebrew language. Translations of foreign literature served to nourish an emerging Hebrew literature, diversify its repertoire, and build the resources of the language itself. Translation was even viewed as an integral part of nation building, as illustrated by the vision and personal involvement of Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, which culminated in a program of translating world masterpieces to create an “Intellectual State” in addition to the new political one.
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Ardi, Havid, Muhd Al Hafizh, Iftahur Rezqi, and Raihana Tuzzikriah. "CAN MACHINE TRANSLATIONS TRANSLATE HUMOROUS TEXTS?" Humanus 21, no. 1 (May 11, 2022): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/humanus.v21i1.115698.
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Machine translation (MT) have attracted many researchers’attention in various ways. Although the advanced of technology brings development to the result of MT, the quality are still criticized. One of the texts that has great challenges and translation problems is humorous text. Humorous texts that trigger a smile or laugh should have the same effect in another language. Humor uses linguistic, cultural, and universal aspects to create joke or humor. These raise questions how do machines translate humorous texts from English into Indonesian? This article aimed at comparing the translation result and error made by three prominent Machine Translations (Google Translate, Yandex Translate, and Bing Microsoft Translator) in translating humorous texts. This research applied qualitative descriptive method. The data were taken by comparing the translation results produced by 3 online Machine Translations in translating four humorous texts. The findings show that Google Translate produced better translation result. There are some errors related to lexical, syntaxis, semantics, and pragmatics errors in the. The implication of this finding shows that machine translation still need human in post editing to produce similar effect to preserve the humor.
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Bagno, Vsevolod E., and Tatyana V. Misnikevich. "Verlen in the Interlinear Translation and in Translation: Creative Laboratory of Fyodor Sologub." Studia Litterarum 5, no. 3 (2020): 358–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2020-5-3-358-377.
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This article examines the development of the translation manner of Fyodor Sologub. The study of the poet’s archive makes it possible to highlight a number of preparatory materials for Sologub’s translations from Paul Verlaine, in particular, interlinear translations. Sologub’s experiments with interlinear translations, which in his case represent a hybrid genre (interlinear translations that include a large number of different dictionary variants of words) are of great importance for the theory, history, and practice of literary translation. Using specific examples, the essay demonstrates that Sologub worked not just with the original text, traditional interlinear translation, and written out words. He employed his “expanded” interlinear translation where he could freely navigate, choose and rearrange words, try their “sound” while seeking to keep their meaning. The authors argue that Sologub’s translating method consisted in selecting Russian words on the basis of the interlinear translation that not only conveyed the original but also made it possible to create a new lexical, grammatical, metric, phonetic, and emotional unity close to the translator’s worldview mindset and aesthetic views.
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Susini, Made, Nyoman Sujaya, and I. Wayan Ana. "Translation Alternatives of Indonesian Public Signs." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 9 (September 1, 2021): 1034–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1109.08.
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Public signs written in two languages are found everywhere in public places in Bali. Appropriate translations of the public signs could help foreigners get information and they also could reflect good image of the places. To be able to create better image of the place, deep investigation on the translations of public signs is needed. This study examined the translations of public signs from Indonesian into English found in Bali. Deploying the concept of translation equivalence by House (2015) and translation strategies by Malone (1988), this study focused on target text alternatives when a certain strategy was applied in translating public signs from Indonesian into English. The data were collected in two regions in Bali, i.e. Denpasar city and Badung regency. This research revealed that the Indonesian public signs were translated by applying strategies of substitution, amplification, reduction, condensation, and re-ordering. The strategies resulted in some translation alternatives. In some cases, the alternatives induced by the translation strategies applied involved the changes of pragmatic and textual meanings. However, they are semantically equivalent.
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Lang, George. "Translation from, to and within the Atlantic Creoles." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 13, no. 2 (March 19, 2007): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037409ar.
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Abstract Translation from, to and within the Atlantic Creoles — Translation involving creóle languages suffers the general disadvantage of writing in creoles: low levels of literacy, the lack of standard orthographies, the overwhelming economic and cultural power of the metropolitan languages with which they compete. The pitfalls attendant to translation in any language are thus aggravated when translating to and from creoles, and these adverse sociolinguistic conditions affect the role of créoles as source and as target languages differently. Another possibility is of course that creoles serve as both SL and TL, and that translation be between or among creóles — a rather rare case. These three eventualities raise several issues of translation theory, in particular the role of shared implicature in languages whose cultures are related (Venuti, 1997). At the same time, certain concepts of translation theory explored recently by Robinson (1997) and others, can shed light upon the particular social and political problems faced by these languages.
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Xin Yi, Wong, Mansour Amini, and Maryam Alipour. "Genre and Translation Style in Chinese Translation of Hollywood Blockbuster Movie Titles in Mainland China and Hong Kong." Journal of Modern Languages 33, no. 2 (December 16, 2023): 120–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jml.vol33no2.7.
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The title of a movie is the first to attract the audience's attention. Poorly translated movie titles may result in a “low box office”, as translators in different countries have their styles and preferences in translating film titles, which might eventually result in different translations of the same movie title and cause confusion to the audience. This qualitative research used exploratory induction to investigate the influence of genre and translation style on the Chinese translation of Hollywood blockbuster movie titles in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Titles of 300 Chinese movies produced between 2001 and 2020 were purposefully selected from the top 50 Hollywood movies in the adventure, horror, and action genres. Genre was found to be slightly effective in the choice of translation style and strategies. Among the three genres, horror was found to have the greatest influence on the choice of translation strategy. It was concluded that translators from Mainland China were more conservative in title translation compared to translators from Hong Kong, whose attempt was to create innovative translations. The findings may have some theoretical and practical implications for film translators, book translators, advertising translators, translation trainers, and trainees.
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Sleeper, Morgan, and Daphne Iskos. "“In the name(s) of the moon!”: ‘Japaneseness’ & Reader Identity in Two Translations of Sailor Moon." Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 2 (November 29, 2021): 121–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v2.825.
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Manga has become increasingly popular in the United States since the 1990s, and over time, the strategies employed in translating these texts for English-speaking audiences have shifted. As translation practices have changed, so too has the status of the sociocultural construct of 'Japaneseness' – a commodified branding of Japanese elements – in translated manga. A striking example of this shift can be seen in two English translations of Naoko Takeuchi's 1991 manga Bishôjo Senshi Sêrâ Mûn (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) for the U.S. market, released 13 years apart: the 1998 Mixx/TokyoPop translation and the 2011 Kodansha translation. In this paper, we examine the use of four linguistic features – loanwords, honorifics, onomatopoeia, and iconicity – in both translations, and find that each version broadly employs a different strategy to either erase (in the case of the earlier translation) or amplify and actively create (in the case of the later translation) 'Japaneseness' within the text. These strategies in turn afford two different ways for readers to engage with Sailor Moon, so following our analysis of the texts themselves, we then examine fan discourse to show how readers construct distinct identities by drawing on salient linguistic features of each translation. The shift from a preference for domesticated reading experiences to a desire for translations to retain as much Japanese character as possible reveals the construct of 'Japaneseness' as central to the commodification of Japanese language and culture in both manga publishing and Anglophone fandom more broadly.
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Wongseree, Thandao. "Translation of Thai Culture-Specific Words Into English in Digital Environment: Translators’ Strategies and Use of Technology." rEFLections 28, no. 3 (September 23, 2021): 334–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.61508/refl.v28i3.254613.
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The present research investigates how translators deal with the challenges of translating culture-specific words from Thai into English within a digital environment. Using strategies suggested by Baker (2018), the study collected data from surveys, written sources and observations to examine which approaches are used by translators. It also addresses how technology impacts the decision making of translators as they create translations employing both Bourdieu’s concept of habitus (1977, 1990) and the Actor-Network Theory proposed by Latour (1987, 2005). The findings show that translators use eight primary strategies when translating culture-specific words, with the use of loan words being the most common and literal translation the least used. The habitus of translators possibly influences their translation choices, with technology playing a crucial role in determining which solutions and strategies translators choose. This proves the extent to which technology currently influences translators in the completion of translation tasks in digital environments. Consideration of these factors should be considered as a way to improve translation training in a Thai context.
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Hussain, Amir. "For Poetry's Sake: Resistance to Translation in the German Versions of Oscar Wilde's THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL." Linguaculture 14, no. 2 (December 30, 2023): 80–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2023-2-0338.
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While Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol is frequently examined within the genre of prison writing, translations of the poem push one to consider the relevance of its aestheticism within the genre of poetry. This article comparatively examines three German-language versions of the poem by Emma Clausen, Wilhelm Schölermann, and Albrecht Schaeffer to show how the practice of poetry translation resists the source object, translating for poetry’s sake. Key refrains reveal individual translators embracing their own artistic aims to create more poetry, even as the source poem simultaneously resists translation in its own way. Consideration of the genre of poetry, or what Walter Pater describes as its formal “width, variety, [and] delicacy,” ultimately encourages one to follow an aesthetic model of translation, rather than an interpretive model such as that of Lawrence Venuti. This article also draws out the value of thinking about German translations of Wilde’s prison poem, which are consistently underexamined yet prolific in number, for situating the aestheticism of one of the most widely translated literary authors in modern times.
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Bandia, Paul F. "On Translating Pidgins and Creoles in African Literature." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 7, no. 2 (March 13, 2007): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037182ar.
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Abstract On Translating Pidgins and Creoles in African Literature — This paper deals with some of the problems of translating pidgins and creoles in African literature. It begins with an overview of the origins and parallel evolution of the French-based and English-based pidgins spoken in West Africa, throwing light on their status, history, and use in African literature. After a brief sociolinguistic analysis of the two hybrid languages, the paper discusses the difficulty of translating them, by carrying out a thorough analysis of translated examples and suggesting more appropriate solutions where necessary. The paper concludes by highlighting the reasons for the translation difficulties which are not only linguistic but also historical and ideological.
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Evans, Jonathan. "Lydia Davis’ Rewritings of Proust." Translation and Literature 21, no. 2 (July 2012): 175–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2012.0065.
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Drawing on Moraru's and Lefevere's concepts of rewriting, this article analyses how Lydia Davis rewrites Proust, first as an author in her novel The End of the Story and secondly as a translator in her rendering of Du côté de chez Swann. Davis has acknowledged Proust's influence on her novel, which shows thematic and structural similarities to Proust's novel, but at the same time offers a rewriting of it through a questioning of narrative possibility and through Proustian elements such as memory. Davis’ translation is a rewriting of Proust in English, which seeks self-consciously to create a different representation from previous translations. The dividing line between authorial and translational rewriting is blurred in Davis’ work, since characteristics of her original work can be seen in her translation, which remains, however, functional as a translation.
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Qizi, Yuldosheva Vazira Ziloliddin. "TRANSLATIONAL SPECIFICITY OF OXYMORON RENDERING IN ENGLISH-UZBEK LITERARY TRANSLATION." International Journal Of Literature And Languages 03, no. 04 (April 1, 2023): 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ijll/volume03issue04-04.
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The main objective of this article is to explore the challenges and strategies involved in translating oxymorons from English to Uzbek while maintaining the intended meaning, style, and impact of the original text. Oxymorons are literary devices that use two contradictory terms together to create a unique effect. They are commonly used in English literature to convey complex meanings and emotions. However, translating them into another language can be challenging because the contradictory terms may not have equivalent counterparts in the target language. The objective of this study is to identify the difficulties and specificities of translating oxymorons from English into Uzbek, and to develop effective strategies to overcome them. The study will analyze a variety of English literary texts that contain oxymorons, and their translations into Uzbek, to identify common patterns and challenges. The study will also examine the impact of different translation strategies on the overall meaning and style of the translated text. This will involve analyzing the translations in terms of their accuracy, fluency, and style, as well as their ability to convey the intended meaning and effect of the original text.
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Martínez Sirés, Paula. "Defamiliarizing translations of children’s literature in Meiji Japan: a study of Wakamatsu Shizuko’s Wasuregatami." MonTI. Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación, no. 14 (April 28, 2022): 323–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/monti.2022.14.11.
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This paper will examine Wasuregatami (‘The Memento’, 1890), Wakamatsu Shizuko’s Japanese translation of Adelaide Anne Procter’s poem The Sailor Boy (1858). The poem is narrativized into the Japanese monogatari style and the culturemes are assimilated into the target-culture context of Japan in an apparently domesticating approach. Nevertheless, Wakamatsu Shizuko’s inclusion in the translation of original source-culture items and the implementation of the experimental colloquial genbun itchi (vernacular) literary style could also exemplify Venuti’s foreignizing and “defamiliarizing” translation since it goes “beyond literalism to advocate an experimentalism” by using “registers, and styles already available in the translating language to create a discursive heterogeneity” (Venuti 2000: 341). This paper will contend that the style used in Wasuregatami was the cornerstone on which Shizuko would base her later, more acclaimed translations of children’s literature into Japanese.
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Kazantsev, Ivan A. "The concept of “the Lamb of God” («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in English, German and Russian translations of the Gospel of John." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 20, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 548–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2023-20-3-548-566.
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The interpretation of biblical concepts is a complex translation problem, the method of literal translation cannot solve it. The search for lexical matches in the target language is not always systematic. A comprehensive solution to this problem is possible within the framework of the conceptual theory of metaphor, which allows you to rethink the process of translating biblical concepts. The article explores the implementation of the concept «the Lamb of God» («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in the translations of the Gospel of John into English, German and Russian in the light of modern research on the conceptual theory of metaphor. The purpose of the study is to analyze the degree of implementation of the concept «the Lamb of God» («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in translations of the Gospel of John. The work uses the MIPVU method to identify metaphors in the original text of the Gospel of John, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis to assess the adequacy of the translation of the concept « the Lamb of God» in the context of the biblical conceptual field. As a result of the study, it was revealed that in the English, German and Russian translations of the Gospel of John, the concept of the «the Lamb of God» («ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») of the original text is not fully implemented. The absence of a separate lexical unit leads to confusion in the translations of the «Lamb» («ἀμνὸς») from the Gospel of John and the «Lamb» («ἀρνίον») from the Apocalypse, which distorts the meaning of the translations. The application of the MIPVU method to identify metaphors in the biblical text, as well as an integrated approach to the translation of biblical concepts, is a developing direction in modern translation studies. Modern advances in the field of metaphor theory make it possible to create new translations of the Bible that are accessible to readers who are not familiar with the biblical conceptual field.
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Yaqubi, Mojde, Rawshan Ibrahim Tahir, and Mansour Amini. "Translation of Onomatopoeia: Somewhere between Equivalence and Function." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 2, no. 3 (August 24, 2018): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v2n3p205.
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<em>English-Persian translation of novels deals with the challenges of understanding and transferring different linguistic aspects such as those of onomatopoeias. These elements are expected to create difficulties for translators as they are realized differently in English and Persian. Although some studies have been done to identify onomatopoeias in different languages, they are less debated in the area of translation. This study concentrates on English translation of 125 onomatopoeias in the novel A Tale of Two cities written by Charles Dickens and their Persian translations done by two translators. It aims at identifying English onomatopoeias in the corpus and the translation techniques used for translating them by the two translators. Furthermore, taking prospective approach, it comparatively assesses the two translated versions in terms of their success of translation of onomatopoeias from English into Persian. Finally this study aims at proposing a guideline which helps the translators to translate onomatopoeias in English Novels into Persian.</em>
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Cosma, Iulia. "Le sfide della traduzione di Cuore in romeno (1893-1936)." Translationes 9, no. 1 (June 1, 2017): 98–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tran-2017-0006.
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Abstract This paper is concerned with the problems and the difficulties faced when translating in Romanian Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy’s Journal by De Amicis, an extremely important book that left a mark on the cultural history of Romania for being until recently part of the Primary School Curriculum. The aim is to create awareness for the necessity of identifying evaluation criteria for the translation of literature for children. In this regard, the translational activity and its product will be discussed from an analytic and diachronic perspective, requested by the interdisciplinary approach inherent to translation criticism.
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Moresko, A. "Specifics of the Translation of Euphemisms in Ideological Discourse (for Example, the Vocabulary of the German Language During the Period of the Dictatorship of National Socialism)." Bulletin of Science and Practice 5, no. 12 (December 15, 2019): 531–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.33619/2414-2948/49/65.
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The focus of the research is on the ways of transferring the ideological component found in semantics of euphemisms when translating from German into Russian. Analysis is concentrated on the language of Nazi Germany with euphemization being one of the prevalent lexical means of propaganda and manipulation. Euphemisms were used to create the new ideological concepts and to delude the recipients as well as to distance the transmitters from the actions implied. The article takes into view some of them and analyzes the ways in which Russian historical tradition interprets them. It points out, that calque translation and explicitation are those ways of achieving equivalence that try at most fully convey the euphemistic connotations and their functions in ideology. The research also pays attention to the historical facts which led to the usage of euphemisms. Among the texts analyzed are the historic documents cited in German academic publications and their Russian translations. The results of the research can be applied in the further studies of the ideological aspects in discourse, theory of translation and in working on translations of historical literature.
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Pavlova, Maria V. "Three “Erl-Kings”." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 16 (2021): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/16/2.
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The scholars of Russian literature are very well aware of V Zhukovsky’s translation of Goethe’s “Erlkonig” (1782), published as “Lesnoy tsar’ ” (1818). However, none of the studies of Zhukovsky’s literary works mentions that Zhukovsky presumably used the English variant of the ballad by W. Scott for his translation of “Lesnoy tsar’ ”. W. Scott’s “The Erl-King” (1797) was written fifteen years after the original and almost twenty years before Zhukovsky’s translation. Thus, it can be assumed that V Zhukovsky, who was acquainted with W. Scott’s, couldn’t ignore the English translation of “Erlkonig”. If we compare V Zhukovsky’s and W. Scott’s tranlsations in terms of their closeness to the original, we can see that the former is significantly far from the original than the latter. Zhukovsky is faithful to the original in terms of the content, but he completely abandons the folklore stylistics of the original and traditionally organizes his text according to the ballad principles, which have already been developed in his original works. However, in his evolution, V. Zhukovsky follows W. Scott and draws on not only W. Scott’s early ballads but also his later narrative poems. By the moment when V. Zhukovsky starts translating Goethe’s ballad, he must have been acquainted with W. Scott’s narrative poems and other poetical pieces, which results in a difference between the original, English, and Russian translations. The closeness of Zhukovsky’s and Scott’s translation strategies can be seen not only on the level of content but also on the stylistic level. When creating “The Erl-King”, W. Scott focuses on the literary form of the ballad: even though his translation is quite close to the original, he transforms the poetical semantics and ballad form in the vein of sentimentalism, which can be also seen in his translation of Burger’s “Lenore”. The comparative analyses of the original and two translations by Zhukovsky and Scott allows making a conclusion that W. Scott’s translation of “Erlkonig” can be “interposed” between Goethe’s text, which is close to folklore ballad traditions, and Zhukovsky’s literary variant. If we take into account the undeniable fact that V. Zhukovsky looked to W. Scott’s ballads, we can say that early W. Scott’s literary pieces vector Zhukovsky’s translational creative works and play the role of a transition stage for Zhukovsky’s development as a poet and translator. It should be noted then, that later W. Scott returns to folklore variants of the ballad, while Zhukovsky remains faithful to the previously developed course to create his own philosophy of the genre.
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Made, Susini, and Sujaya Nyoman. "CHANGES OF VIEWPOINTS IN INDONESIAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION." KULTURISTIK: Jurnal Bahasa dan Budaya 5, no. 2 (July 6, 2021): 36–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/kulturistik.5.2.3358.
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This study concerns with translation which involves languages that have different linguistic and cultural systems. When a source and target language do not have the same system of language and culture, to some extent, equivalence cannot be directly achieved. By deploying Vinay & Darbelnet’s Modulation (1995) and House’s translation equivalence (2015), this study is to reveal the changes of point of view the translators did in translating texts from Indonesian into English. The data sources of this present study include Indonesian novels and short stories loaded with culture and their English translations. The analysis revealed that to create adequate target texts, the translators changed their points of view through some conditions. The changes include: a) negation of opposite; b) part for the whole; c) abstract for concrete; d) cause for effect; e) active for passive; f) space for time; g) change of symbols; and h) intervals and limits. Changing point of view becomes cultural bridge in the translation which involves languages with different culture.
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Frank, Helen. "Discovering Australia Through Fiction: French Translators as Aventuriers." Meta 51, no. 3 (September 21, 2006): 482–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/013554ar.
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Abstract The translation into French of referents of Australia and Australianness in fiction necessitates a considerable variety of translational tendencies and interpretive choices. This study focuses on French translations of selected passages and blurbs from Australian fiction set in regional Australia to determine how referents of Australian flora, fauna, landscape and people are translated and interpreted in a non-English speaking cultural system. Guided by concerns for the target readers’ understanding of the text, French translators employ normative strategies and adaptive procedures common to translation to enhance reader orientation. There is, nonetheless, evidence of culture-specific appropriation of the text and systematic manipulation of Australian referents that goes beyond normative solutions. Such appropriation and manipulation stem from a desire to create and foster culture-specific suppositions about Australia consistent with French preoccupations with colonialism, the exotic, exploration and adventure.
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Safar Alqahtani, Asrar. "The Impact of Using Memsource Termbase System on Developing Terminological Competence for Saudi Freelance Technical Translators." Arab World English Journal, no. 300 (October 5, 2023): 1–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/th.300.
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The current qualitative study aimed at assessing the impact of using the Memsource termbase system on developing terminological competence for 10 Saudi freelance technical translators registered in the Saudi freelance platform Bahr and the two social media websites Twitter and Telegram. As Arabic specialized translations often contain inconsistent and inaccurate use of terminology, this study focused on developing terminological competence using the terminology tool. To assess the impact of the terminology tool on the participants’ terminological competence, the participants in this study were divided into two groups: one group was assisted with the terminology tool—referred to as tool-assisted—and the other was not—referred to as non-tool-assisted—. Both groups completed a translation task and an open-ended questionnaire. As developing terminological competence assists in dealing with terms effectively, the terminology tool used by the participants in this study allowed the participants to create their termbases before translating the assigned technical text. These termbases were then incorporated into the tool, and when the participants started translating the text, the tool suggested the previously translated terms. To analyze the obtained data, descriptive content analysis and thematic analysis were used: the former was used to analyze the translations, and the latter was used to analyze the questionnaires’ responses. The study concluded that the terminology tool assisted in developing the tool-assisted participants’ terminological competence regarding identifying terms, creating term bases, and managing terminology during the translation process.
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Kriston, Andrea. "An Approach to Business Translations. A Functionalist Translation." Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages 13 (April 26, 2023): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.59168/igyu9557.
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The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist approaches to translation and, at observing how the functionalist approach can be used in practice on a business text excerpt, placing an emphasis on the pragmatic equivalence and the features of the ST that have to be rendered accurately so as to create the same functionality of the TT as in the ST.
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Figuera, Renee. "Critical cultural translation." Translating Creolization 2, no. 2 (December 23, 2016): 195–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.2.2.02fig.
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This case study uses tools from Critical Discourse Analysis and Translation Studies to explain the translation of Creole aesthetics in thirty-two written folktales of Trinidad, after World War I. The serial publication of these local folktales within the Trinidad Weekly Guardian and the Argos newspapers coincided with a period of cultural transformation in Trinidad, when local newspapers became the caretakers of a national literature in print. The researcher uses translation as a metaphor to critically analyze the process and function of intercultural transfer between oral and written folktale cultures, while showing how intercultural translation was effected in the folktale, at this time. In the final analysis, the study traces the forward reach of translating creolization beyond the period of WWI, into a period that is better known for the foregrounding of the Creole under class, in the short stories of Beacon and Trinidad of 1929 to 1930. It is a significant study because it identifies many translation shifts in Creole culture towards establishing the conventions of the modern short story of the 1930’s. In particular, the re-writing of oral tales enabled a discursive shift in focus in favor of the ordinary class, race-relations in society, the melding of folk mythologies for didactic purposes, and a language shift from the folktale’s French-Creole language base to an English-oriented literate culture. In this way, it perpetuated a neo-colonial agenda of translating creolization as the discursive recolonization of Creole folktale culture with exocentric conventions.
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Pidopryhora, Svitlana, and Victoria Kysil. "POETRY AND FICTION BY MYKOLA VINGRANOVSKYJ IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Literary Studies. Linguistics. Folklore Studies, no. 32 (2022): 58–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2659.2022.32.11.
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The article examines the poetry and fiction by Mykola Vingranovskyj in English translations. Attention is paid to the chronological sequence of translations, the figures of translators and the works selected for translation, their equivalence to the original. The first translation of M. Vingranovskyj's fiction (the short story "White Flowers") appeared with the assistance of Yu. Lutsky in Canada and aimed at popularizing Ukrainian literature among students. The short story opens the extremely lyrical world of Mykola Vingranovskyj, where the story revolves not around the event, but around the feelings, which brings the short story closer to poetry. The novella was included to the anthology (Modern Ukrainian Short Stories, 1973) as the example of the prose of the sixties (shistdesyatnyky), which departed from socialist-realist ideological canons and turned to the emotional and expressive potential of artistic language. The translation of Yuri and Moira Lutsky is marked by the desire to convey as fully as possible the author's individual style, including figurative metaphor, to create a text equivalent to the original in communicative orientation. The collection Summer Evening (1987), translated by Anatoliy Bilenko, was published after M. Vingranovskyj was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1984). The collection includes stories for children's audiences, conveying children's perception of the world: Chest, Shaggi, The Gosling, Good Night, What Makes the World Spin, Summer Evening. A. Bilenko's translations are notable for the adequacy of the reproduction of artistic and stylistic features of the original, semantic equivalence. Some translated poems, which emphasize the civic component (Sistine Madonna, To My Sea, On the Golden Table, The First Lullaby, Star Prelude) were included to the anthology of Ukrainian poetry (Anthology of Soviet Ukrainian Poetry, 1982), and Russian translators were involved in translating the poems (Dorian Rottenberg, Michael McGreg), which significantly reduced the artistic value of poetry. During the times of independent Ukraine, competitions for translations to the writer's anniversaries were initiated. However, translated works have not been published in collections and anthologies. Active work on translations of M. Vingranovskyj's works is still ahead.
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Karas, Hilla. "Illustrated translations longing for the Middle Ages, exemplified by modern french versions of Aucassin et Nicolette." Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 06, no. 01 (October 16, 2020): 161–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18680/hss.2020.0008.
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The relations between the verbal component, the visual component, and the translational aspect of a given text have been discussed and described by translation scholars and semioticians in a diversity of manners. A significant graphic element may be introduced during the translation production, usually in dialogue with the verbal one, thus creating a new intersemiotic text. Medieval manuscripts are known for offering their readers illustrations, miniatures, rubrics, decorated initials, colored and gilded details, and other visual ingredients. As a result, the codex functions as an essential interpretive agent rather than a passive container for verbal texts. This model of the intricate illuminated manuscript was imported into modern culture systems through transfer. However, in reality, most manuscripts exhibit simple decorative schemes or are plain and unadorned, which means that ornaments in their current versions most likely derive from the model mentioned above. The paper looks at the productivity of this medieval model by examining various visual components inserted into the printed modern French translations based on the unmistakably plain manuscript of the thirteenth-century work Aucassin et Nicolette. The analysis will focus on the illustrated translations, addressing the added elements and their characteristics, their relation to the model, the increased determinacy they create, and the resulting reading they seem to encourage. We will suggest that even the narration levels and the performative aspect of the text may be affected by the new, intersemiotic nature bestowed upon this ancient text through the integration of other modalities into its translations.
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Ahmed, Basma, and Nuri Ageli. "The Use of Translation Creative Microstrategies by University Students in Selected Text Types." International Journal of Translation and Interpretation Studies 3, no. 4 (October 11, 2023): 05–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijtis.2023.3.4.2.
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This study aims to examine the degrees of applying creative microstrategies in translating selected types of texts (journalistic, business and literary texts) by 36 translation male and female graduating students, and comparing them with those of professional translators. It also seeks to identify the level of students’ creativity and the decisions taken to produce a creative translation. 108 students’ translations were analysed and 6 students were interviewed randomly, in which four open questions were asked. The findings of the study have shown high frequencies of using both pragmatic and semantic creative microstratgies by all categories of students, who interacted creatively with the three texts when compared to the professional translators, despite the differences in quality and accuracy. The study highly recommends providing students with sufficient knowledge about the different translation strategies to facilitate finding the best equivalents and create interaction between the translator and the text through investigation and deep analysis. The outcomes are expected to help both learners to overcome translation challenges, and instructors to better assess their performance to ensure that the output of the translated work is accurate, creative, and of high quality.
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Abdul Gani, Citra Amiliani. "The Quality of Direct Procedures in Students’ Indonesian Translation of English Folklore Drama Scripts." English Education Journal 9, no. 1 (November 8, 2018): 18–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/eej.v9i1.26158.
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According to Vinay and Darbelnet (1995), direct translation refers to the transposition of source language message element by element into target language based on either structural parallelism or metalinguistic parallelism. However, both parallelisms are not realized by the student translators so that sometimes they apply inappropriate direct translation. Therefore, this study is aimed to assess the quality of students’ direct translation procedures according to Larson (1994) in Indonesian rendering of English folklore drama script. This study employed descriptive qualitative method with the involvement of respondents for quality assessment. The result reveals that 445 direct procedures consisting of 45 borrowing translations, 18 calque translations, and 382 literal translations produce 249 accurate, 64 sufficiently accurate, and 132 less accurate translations. Dealing with clarity, 314 are considered as clear, 71 sufficiently clear, and 60 less clear translations. In addition, the analysis of naturalness results 285 natural, 51 sufficiently natural, 58 less natural, and 51 unnatural translations. The problems derived from students’ direct procedures are the use of unacceptable loan word and word by word translation which can create misinterpretation. Therefore, the students should increase their awareness of the structural and metalinguistic parallelisms between source and target language.
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Baklazhenko, Yu. "TRANSLATION OF LEGAL NEOLOGISMS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TERM "INSIGNIFICANT CASE"." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Legal Studies, no. 117 (2021): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2195/2021/2.117-2.
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The article deals with the issue on translating legal terms from Ukrainian into English on the basis of a case study of a newly-coined term in Ukrainian legislation – 'maloznachna sprava'. The relevance of the topic of legal translation from English into Ukrainian and vice versa has become especially acute in light of the Ukraine-EU approximation agreement. While the introduction of simplified civil proceedings is itself a step towards the approximation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU, the next stage will inevitably be comparing and contrasting the existing terms within the Ukrainian and EU civil procedures. Ukrainian simplified procedure aims at considering insignificant cases (Ukr. – 'maloznachni spravy') in a speedy manner, while EU accelerated and simplified civil procedure uses the term 'small claims' for cases with a claim value for up to EUR 5,000. Obviously, these notions are not equivalent, but their meaning overlaps, creating pitfalls for translation. Thus, for proper translation, it is important to specify how the concept of small claims fits into Ukraine's national context. The notion of insignificant cases illustrates the relevance of the linguistic study of legal translations, as well as a need for the consolidation of practical achievements in the field of translation of legal discourse and, in particular, legal neologisms. The purpose of legal translation is to create a text that will be interpreted in the same way by legal professionals in the target legal system as it would be in the original legal system. The aim of translation is not to erase linguistic and cultural differences but to accommodate them, fully and unapologetically. The challenge is to convey the legal text as a fragment of a living legal system. When translating, a translator should strive for equivalence, bearing in mind the harmonisation and approximation of terminologies. The linguistic approximation of national Ukrainian legal terms to the EU terminology should be carefully considered to avoid their misinterpretation with the supranatural terms. The author emphasises the necessity to perform concept analysis between the terms in the EU and Ukraine simplified procedures and comes to the conclusion that despite having surface similarity to the EU term 'small claim', the Ukrainian term 'maloznachna sprava' is, in fact, a much wider concept. A range of translations of legal neologisms are described in the article, and the need to use a literal translation of the term is substantiated. As a result of the analysis of possible translation options and the ECtHR translation precedent, it is recommended that the term 'maloznachna sprava' should be translated as 'insignificant case' within the sphere of Ukrainian civil procedure. Keywords: legal translation, Ukrainian-English translation, small claim, insignificant case.
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Efendi, Ahmad. "FIGURE OF SPEECH TRANSLATION OF NOVEL TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE MITCH ALBOM WORKS BY ALEX TRI KANTJONO WIDODO CONTENT ANALYSIS RESEARCH." JEES: Journal of English Educational Study 2, no. 1 (May 22, 2019): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31932/jees.v2i1.380.
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This research generally aims to increase knowledge of the translation of a novel translation. Specifically to determine equivalence translations figure of speech, to know the techniques translation in translations figure of speech, and meaning shift of translations figure of speech in this novel Tuesdays with Morrie. The object of research is novel translation by Alex Tri Kantjono Widodo with the title Tuesday with Morrie Mitch Albom's work.The method used is qualitative method and the technique used is content analysis. Data collected by reading novels, collecting data by selecting a clause or sentence containing a figure of speech, quote them and identify then create a table. Furthermore, the sentences were analyzed by formal equivalence or dynamic equivalence.There are 87 identified sentences as a sentence containing a figure of speech. Sentences are divided into two correspondences that formal and dynamic equivalence. There were 70 sentences, or 80% containing formal equivalence and 17 sentences or 20% containing dynamic equivalence. Later, it was discovered seven translation techniques used by the translator of the novel Tuesday with Morrie. Finally, there are 3 meanings shift in translations figure of speech. Keyword: Figure of Speech, Content Analysis, Translation, Equivalence, Qualitative, Technique, Meaning Shift.
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Pavlović-Šajtinac, M. B., and I. S. Tyapkov. "Linguocultural Elements in Text of Novel “On Eve” and Analysis of Their Translated Equivalents in Serbian." Nauchnyi dialog 13, no. 1 (January 30, 2024): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2024-13-1-45-62.
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The article is devoted to the issue of cross-cultural communication and difficult cases of translation into Serbian and Croatian languages of lexical and phraseological units from Ivan Turgenev’s novel “On the Eve”. The relevance of this issue lies in the analysis of translation as an act of communication, during which the linguistic worldview of the people is represented. The material for the study was translations of the novel “On the Eve” into Serbian and Croatian languages from different years, which are close to Russian. As a tertium comparationis, we considered the translation of this work into English. The authors analyzed forms of address and non-equivalent vocabulary, as well as idioms, which translators represented differently in their translation options. As a result of the study, it was found that difficulties arise in translating words that denote concepts related to the cultural-historical Russian context. It is shown that Serbian translators often try to take historical facts into account and give comments when there are no equivalents in their native language. It is noted that there is currently a need for a Russian-Serbian linguistic and cultural dictionary that will help a specialist create an adequate translation variant close to the original.
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Sikatskaya, P. A., and I. A. Remorov. "Evaluating the Semantic Equivalence of a Poetic Text." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 22, no. 9 (December 11, 2023): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2023-22-9-53-63.
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Purpose. Some texts have been translated into another language multiple times. There are various reasons to compile a new translation of a previously translated text: some translators are not satisfied with the accuracy of the existing translations, while others try to create new interpretations. The study presents a comparative evaluation of translation equivalence on the base of one of Horace's odes, namely Ad Leuconoën (I:XI), and its 55 translations into Russian. Results. Detailed study of the problem revealed the impossibility of postulating a single scale of translation equivalence; at least for translations of a Latin poetic text, metrical, cultural, and semantic equivalence should be considered separately. The article describes the semantic equivalence. Our method is divided into two steps - semantic analysis and arithmetic calculations. First, in Horace's poem, we select 30 keywords, and then we define the actual semes for each of them in the original text and in the translations. Then we compare the semes and register the differences. At last, we determine the coefficient of semantic equivalence for every translation using the arithmetic means. Conclusion. High semantic equivalence does not always correlate with aesthetic perception. Moreover, earlier translations tend to have lesser equivalence.
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Akai, Joanne. "Creole… English: West Indian Writing as Translation." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 10, no. 1 (February 27, 2007): 165–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037283ar.
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Abstract Creole... English: West Indian Writing as Translation — This paper looks at the use of language(s) in Indo-Caribbean (i.e., West Indian of East Indian descent) writings. West Indian writers are Creole, in every sense of the term: born in (former) British colonies, they have a hybrid culture and a hybrid language. They operate from within a polylectal Creole language-culture continuum which offers them a wide and varied linguistic range (Creole to Standard English) and an extended cultural base ("primitive" oral culture to anglicized written culture). Indo-Caribbean writers, however, have access, not only to the Creole language-culture continuum, but also to the pre-colonial cultural, linguistic and religious traditions of their ancestors who came from India in the 19th century. But if Creole is the mother-tongue of all West Indians, English is the only language they know to read and write. West Indian literature in English constitutes an intricately woven textile of Creole and English : a hybrid writing made possible through the translation of Creole experience into English; oral Creole culture into written English; the Creole language into the English language. In fact, West Indian literature in English can be considered self-translation, for which the presence of the author as the translator gives authority to the hybridized product, a true extract of the West Indian writer and his Caribbean language-culture.
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Hageman, Kristin N., Margaret R. Chow, Dale Roberts, and Charles C. Della Santina. "Binocular 3D otolith-ocular reflexes: responses of normal chinchillas to tilt and translation." Journal of Neurophysiology 123, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 243–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00882.2018.
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Head rotation, translation, and tilt with respect to a gravitational field elicit reflexive eye movements that partially stabilize images of Earth-fixed objects on the retinas of humans and other vertebrates. Compared with the angular vestibulo-ocular reflex, responses to translation and tilt, collectively called the otolith-ocular reflex (OOR), are less completely characterized, typically smaller, generally disconjugate (different for the 2 eyes) and more complicated in their relationship to the natural stimuli that elicit them. We measured binocular 3-dimensional OOR responses of 6 alert normal chinchillas in darkness during whole body tilts around 16 Earth-horizontal axes and translations along 21 axes in horizontal, coronal, and sagittal planes. Ocular countertilt responses to 40-s whole body tilts about Earth-horizontal axes grew linearly with head tilt amplitude, but responses were disconjugate, with each eye’s response greatest for whole body tilts about axes near the other eye’s resting line of sight. OOR response magnitude during 1-Hz sinusoidal whole body translations along Earth-horizontal axes also grew with stimulus amplitude. Translational OOR responses were similarly disconjugate, with each eye’s response greatest for whole body translations along its resting line of sight. Responses to Earth-horizontal translation were similar to those that would be expected for tilts that would cause a similar peak deviation of the gravitoinertial acceleration (GIA) vector with respect to the head, consistent with the “perceived tilt” model of the OOR. However, that model poorly fit responses to translations along non-Earth-horizontal axes and was insufficient to explain why responses are larger for the eye toward which the GIA vector deviates. NEW & NOTEWORTHY As the first in a pair of papers on Binocular 3D Otolith-Ocular Reflexes, this paper characterizes binocular 3D eye movements in normal chinchillas during tilts and translations. The eye movement responses were used to create a data set to fully define the normal otolith-ocular reflexes in chinchillas. This data set provides the foundation to use otolith-ocular reflexes to back-project direction and magnitude of eye movement to predict tilt axis as discussed in the companion paper.
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Lebovics, Viktória. "On the Issue of Onomastics Rendering in Literary Translation." Folk art and ethnology, no. 1 (2023): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/nte2023.01.021.
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The article is dedicated to the problem of rendering of eloquent proper names in the translations of fiction writing. Attention is paid to the Hungarian and English translations of The Black Council historical novel by Panteleimon Kulish. The author has informed the editor of the magazine Moskvityanin of M. Pogodin on October 15, 1843. Kulish promises to create a whole gang of Cossacks in the novel, who receive eloquent nominations with interesting, diverse, associative characterization of the heroes encoded in them. In literary translation one can find relatively few such examples when speaking proper names are translated and not transmitted by transcription or transliteration. Many researchers consider the translation of speaking names to be impossible mission or super task. Ukrainian literature is extremely rich in works, the literary and onomastic analysis of which will certainly lead to new explanations and open new nuances in their interpretation. The examples of onyms rendering in the Hungarian translation, created by Anna Bojtár in 1978, submitted in the article, are the evidences of the fact that in many cases the semantic and associative meanings of onyms are lost, and the translator finds the appropriate solution when translating them only in some cases. The decisions of Yurii Stepan Nestor Lutskyi and his wife Moira in the English abridged translation of the novel, created almost at the same time, in 1973, are not much different. Nowadays scholars pay much more attention to the problems of translation of literary onomastics. More and more often there are the proposals to use the exact, adequate, appropriate, apt equivalent of eloquent names in the target language along with the recognition of their partial or complete untranslatability. Various possibilities of this issue solving can be found in scientific articles devoted to the translation of eloquent proper names of literary works. In reality, the choice of one or another variant of reproduction of eloquent proper names in the translation is motivated by various grammatical, lexical, semantic, connotative, culturological, ethnic, historical, pragmatic and other factors, among which the subjective desires of translators are also significant.
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GIABER, JAMAL MOHAMED, NOUR HAMMO, SAFA HRAIZ, DU’AA QADAN, RAHF ALNAMER, and SHAIKHA ALMAAMARI. "TRANSLATING HEADLINES IN PRINT BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS FROM ENGLISH INTO ARABIC IN UAE." Across Languages and Cultures 21, no. 1 (June 2020): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/084.2020.00006.
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Abstract:Business advertisements are multimodal consumer-oriented texts with persuasive functions. Advertisers create specific advertisements for marketing products/services in specific contexts. The headline in an advertisement is the main element as it attracts attention and summarizes the advertising message. Advertising relies on socio-cultural implications through visual and non-visual elements. When products/services are marketed in a new context with a different language, their advertisements are translated into that language. Because languages have different ways of encoding information, the success of a product/ service in a culturally different context depends on how its advertisement is translated. The structural and cultural differences between English and Arabic and the functional nature of headlines in English business advertisements seem to have direct bearing on how advertising headlines are rendered into Arabic. This study investigates the translation of advertising headlines from English into Arabic in the context of marketing products/services in UAE. The aim is to identify the techniques used in translating headlines and their implications for translation quality and to identify views of Arab customers over the acceptability of Arabic versions of advertising headlines. The study findings indicate that seven translation techniques are used and customers consider Arabic advertisements produced via function-oriented translation techniques more acceptable than translations produced via form-based techniques.
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Beckett, C. "Translating poetry: Creative art or semantic science? A case study." Literator 21, no. 3 (April 26, 2000): 75–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v21i3.498.
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There is an on-going debate as to the real value of translation: is it an art or a science? Is the translator engaged in genuine creation or is she merely transliterating the creation of someone else? In order to attempt to resolve this long-standing and thorny problem, this article examines the poet’s understanding of the “logos", the creative force of the word and the relationship which exists between the “signifiant" and the “signifié”. Extracts from poems by Alan Paton, Victor Hugo and Pablo Neruda serve to illustrate that poetic words not only transmit the poet’s experience but actually create it. If the poet is sensitive to the creative nature of language, as these two extracts suggest he should be, it follows logically that a good translator too must be aware of the degree to which language can create, and this perception must be implemented in the subsequent translation. Because only human beings and not machines possess sensitivity, it stands to reason that a machine is incapable of effectively translating the most emotional of literary genres: poetry. So as to illustrate this fact, this article compares and contrasts a computer-generated translation of Paul Verlaine's poem “Chanson d’automne" with three “human-generated” translations. In my own translation, comments and justifications are made as to the choice of a particular word or phrase proposed as translation. The conclusion is reached that translation implies a high degree of sensitivity towards the poet’s original intention as well as a collaborative process between poet and translator which results in an entirely new poem which involves as much, but different creativity as the original writing of the poem.
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Streiter, Oliver, and Leonid L. Iomdin. "Learning Lessons from Bilingual Corpora: Benefits for Machine Translation." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 5, no. 2 (December 31, 2000): 199–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.5.2.06str.
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The research described in this paper is rooted in the endeavors to combine the advantages of corpus-based and rule-based MT approaches in order to improve the performance of MT systems—most importantly, the quality of translation. The authors review the ongoing activities in the field and present a case study, which shows how translation knowledge can be drawn from parallel corpora and compiled into the lexicon of a rule-based MT system. These data are obtained with the help of three procedures: (1) identification of hence unknown one-word translations, (2) statistical rating of the known one-word translations, and (3) extraction of new translations of multiword expressions (MWEs) followed by compilation steps which create new rules for the MT engine. As a result, the lexicon is enriched with translation equivalents attested for different subject domains, which facilitates the tuning of the MT system to a specific subject domain and improves the quality and adequacy of translation.