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    GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSLATION GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSLATION Two fundamental features of Globalization are crucial for the overcoming of spatial barriers and for the crossing of knowledge and information‚ thus resulting in the mobility of people and objects; and a proper contact between different linguistic communities. Globality is manifested not only in the creation of supra-territorial spaces for finance and banking‚ commodity production (transnational corporations production chains)

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    Lost in Translation

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    Elise Smith 9/25/2013 HUM 1900 Lost In Translation Response Paper A lot of movies today people in the real world can’t really relate to the characters or what the characters are going through. Movies today are about zombies‚ aliens‚ robots‚ cartoons or things that people think may go on in the future. Directors make movies in 3D now to make the watches feel as if they are experiencing what the characters are. In the movie Lost in Translation (2003) the director uses real life situations that

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    both types: free and bound‚ and focused on the bound one‚ its classifications in Arabic and English‚ then we stated the morphological processes under which the bound morpheme goes which result in morphemic shifts in the same language and across both languages‚ and finally concluding that despite the similarities between Arabic and English at morphemic level-in terms of derivational and inflectional features- Arabic represents a more difficult and peculiar challenge for native speakers and foreign

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    Bachelor’s Thesis‚ summer 2010 BA‚ English and Communication Department of Language and Business Communication Creativity in translation – a study of various source and target texts Name: June Lyngbak Fogh Holst Examination number: 284589 Supervisor: Nick Wrigley Number of characters: 49.571 Creativity in translation – a study of various source and target texts June L.F. Holst ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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    What makes a good Linguistics critical review? Commentary on Review Topic Write a critical review of Wolfson’s article‚ ’Compliments in Cross-Cultural Perspective’. In your review you should summarise the text and then evaluate it (800 words) Academic Style and Conventions 1. Analysing the topic Notice how the topic is asking students to do two things - to summarise the text and to evaluate it. When reading a text‚ keep these two points in mind: - What is the text saying? (summary) - What

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    Equivalence in Translation Introduction Dynamic equivalence‚ as a respectable principle of translation‚ has been around in the translation sector for a long time. It is the method whereby the translator ’s purpose is not to give a literal‚ word-for-word rendition but to transfer the meaning of the text as would be best expressed in the words of the receptor (native) language. In this paper‚ we will focus on the criteria necessary to qualify dynamic equivalence with special reference to Eugene

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    misrepresented to gain the favor of the populous. This is evident in Orwell’s writing and in the “Hackvists” documentary‚ often during the course of Knappenberger’s documentary it is shown that euphemisms can greatly mislead and disrupt events in society. Orwell expresses similar views on the topic of euphemisms. In his writings Orwell conveys that a government’s ability to abuse power for gain is completely unjust‚ this coincides with the hacktivist point of view on freedom of speech and oppression

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    Compare and Contrast of Bible Translations: If we look at the fourth line at the NIV and NASB translations‚ you will notice they are almost exactly the same‚ the only difference being that the NIV translation is referring to your door as the NASB translation is referring to the door. In the NIV and NKJB translations they are referring to something completely different‚ one is crouching and the other is lying. In the rest of the verses they are all talking about how sin is waiting for you but in different

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    easy and convenient to translate. Such segments of a text are known as units of translation. V.N.Komissarov uses the term “переводема” to refer to this notion. One of the foreign pioneers of the theory of translation J. Catford introduced the term ‘rank of translation’ in his book “A Linguistic Theory of Translation” (London 1965) which was used in a similar meaning. According to S.B. Tyulenev‚ the unit of translation should be termed translateme (транслатема) and defined as a combination of a linguistic

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    LOST IN TRANSLATION? THE EFFECT OF CULTURAL VALUES ON MERGERS AROUND THE WORLD KENNETH R. AHERNa ‚ DANIELE DAMINELLIb ‚ AND CESARE FRACASSIc Abstract We find strong evidence that three key dimensions of national culture (trust‚ hierarchy‚ and individualism) affect merger volume and synergy gains. The volume of cross-border mergers is lower when countries are more culturally distant. In addition‚ greater cultural distance in trust and individualism leads to lower combined announcement returns. These

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