Throughout almost all societies‚ politeness plays an integral role in the effectiveness of social life and interaction within the context of both inter-cultural and cross-cultural communication. Within different cultures the definition of politeness may vary substantially and as a result may be appropriated in ways that are largely misunderstood within the context of other cultures. It is for this reason that scholars such as Brown and Levinson have derived theories on politeness and its use within global
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The key is to remember that the subtitler must summarize and paraphrase the words of the film in such a way that the viewer will still understand the plot‚ and comedic/dramatic/etc. value of the scene. The subtitler should give the most accurate translation and interpretation of the original text into the target language in the fewest number of words possible. The subtitler should know and decide what to deliver to the audience in order to carry out and insure
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the force of utterance and makes it less threatening to the hearer. Therefore hedging is closely related to the politeness. When we use hedges to make our
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Bad Memories for Orwell. George Orwell demonstrated how writers and politicians use euphemisms‚ doublespeak‚ and other misconceptions to mislead their audience and hide their real agenda; he exposed politicians in his times and predicted future trends and practices in the English language usage. He expected the English language to deteriorate and individual thoughts and expression to be limited. His goal was to make people understand this practice and see through public speeches and political writings
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is undefined. Agard compares the word half-caste to Tchaikovsky’s piano‚ Picasso’s canvas and English weather. Firstly‚ John Agard uses rhetorical questions throughout the poem; ‘what yu mean?’ this shows that nobody knows what Half-Caste means it is down to the reader’s own opinion. This is repeated a lot throughout the poem. Rhetorical questions were very effective in this poem as it made the reader think imagine what the phrase half-caste means. Another technique that Agard uses is repetition;
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language may differ radically from those of another. . . . Each language articulates or organizes the world differently. Languages do not simply name existing categories‚ they articulate their own. (Culler‚ 1976: 21–2) This chapter discusses translation problems arising from lack of equivalence at word level; what does a translator do when there is no word in the target language which expresses the same meaning as the source language word? But before we look at specific types of non-equivalence
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Tidings – news – a report of a recent event; intelligence; information Nay – no – (a negative used to express dissent‚ denial‚ or refusal‚ as inresponse to a question or request) Well met –hello – (used to express a greeting‚ answer a telephone‚ or attractattention). Oft – often – many times; frequently:
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Question 2: Write your comments and interpretation on the statement that the lecturer uses at the end of his lecture: "Make coping tactics part of your life" and "Keep it out of your life". Uses examples and your personal experience (if any) for your argument Answer: What happens in the real life is not always as we expect so that every people in every area has his own techniques to deal with difficulties. Coping tactics is considered as the key element in interpreting career. To emphasize the
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different local translation offices that were selected randomly and are located in Abudhabi. It was done face to face and name of interviewees and offices are kept unknown for privacy matters. The interview included eight questions‚ started generally then it got more specific and straight to the point. The purposes of the interviews were to know the percentage of using
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Death Euphemisms Between Chinese and English: A Contrastive Analysis Abstract Euphemism is a typical and common cultural phenomenon in both Chinese and English communities‚ which has a long standing history. Death euphemism‚ which plays a vital role in linguistics‚ is an important component of euphemism. The thesis tends to make a contrastive analysis of death euphemism between Chinese and English under the two absolutely different culture characteristics and to explore the deep culture connotations
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