Translation criticism on Google translation of proper names in tourism texts Rahele Eyvallah and Zohre Hadi Fars Science and Research University 2011 Rahele_eyvallah@yahoo.com & zohrehadi@gmail.com Abstract The translation of proper names seems to be an effortless task. This study aims at determining the translation of proper names. First‚ the article presents the theoretical consideration that deals with different aspects of proper names translation in tourism texts and the issue of
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THE METAPHORIC DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC TEXTS The Translation of Economic Metaphors The paper aims at presenting the main types of the most commonly used English economic metaphors‚ focussing on the translation strategies that could be used for rendering them into Russian. Introduction. The problem of translation acquires a tremendous importance not only in fiction‚ but also in non-fictional texts‚ especially those are related to newly developed or upcoming areas of human activity‚ such as the
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Girl in translation is a book that tell us the story of a girl name Kimberly and her mom which immigrated from China. They decide move because her aunt lives in Unites States years ago. Unfortunly they had too many difficult to beggin a new life. They live in a very bad conditions. The apartment which her sister give for shelter is dirty and old. Kimberly’s mom works for a clothing factory which the owner is her sister. Meanwhile Kimberly is a smart girl‚ she always effort too much for learn the
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"Christianity won the professed allegiance of the overwhelming majority of the population of the Roman Empire and even the support of the Roman State (Latourette 65). Not only did Christianity thrive‚ but it also succeeded in changing the face of Roman culture. <br><br>Consider the gladiatorial fights. "The huge Coliseum at Rome seated 50 thousand people and was the scene of many bloody gladiatorial combats and even mock naval battles" (Schoder 108). "Hundreds of thousands of slaves shed their blood in
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“The Filipinos love to talk and to interact‚ thus the penchant for gossip‚ telebabad (the habit of engaging in long‚ often senseless conversations over the telephone) and‚ this time‚ text messaging. The Filipinos are heavy users‚ not due to big businesses‚ but because it is one form of entertainment. Filipinos love talking. Filipinos love interacting so much he is using text messaging as a medium" ( 2000). It would be an understatement to say that text messaging‚ or texting‚ has revolutionized
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Throughout Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok‚ the main character‚ Kimberly Chang‚ has a struggle to either assimilate or acculturate to American culture. The novel displays the benefits of both assimilation and acculturation. Kim is often bullied at school by her classmates and teacher in the beginning of the book because of her inability to speak complete english such as on pages 25-27‚ in which Mr. Bogart accused her of copying off another student just because she didn’t understand the directions
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An article discussing the grammar-translation approach to language learning. At the height of the Communicative Approach to language learning in the 1980s and early 1990s it became fashionable in some quarters to deride so-called "old-fashioned" methods and‚ in particular‚ something broadly labelled "Grammar Translation". There were numerous reasons for this but principally it was felt that translation itself was an academic exercise rather than one which would actually help learners to use language
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is translated into how a native speaker of the language may say it. Unfortunately‚ this may not be ideal in every situation‚ and the true meaning of the word in question may be lost. The word hikikomori‚ for example‚ has a morpheme by morpheme translation of “pulling in” or “withdrawal”. Regrettably‚ as the word was translated‚ its ability to convey what Harry experienced was lost. It is due to this reason that Nao chose to write the word in Japanese‚ and describe the meaning of it as a person who
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SS7 Tutorial Global Title Copryright SS8 Networks - 2002 Before we get deeply into the subject of Global Title‚ it might help to get a very broad view of exactly what Global Title is. Simply defined‚ it is an address. But it is not an address of a node in the SS7 network (DPC‚ SSN). Instead‚ it is an alias for such an address that needs to be translated into an SS7 network address. With that definition out of the way‚ let’s quickly review what we know about SS7 addressing in general. To
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LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TRANSLATION The use of translation as an inherent part of FLT was prevalent until early in the present century. The Grammar-Translation method‚ dominant during the first half of the century‚ stressed translation and grammatical analysis‚ and put greater emphasis on accuracy than on fluency‚ preferring academic erudition to communicative competence (Titone& Danesi 1985). At the turn of the century‚ the Grammar-Translation method gradually gave way to the Direct Method
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