"Toba Tek Singh" is surely the most famous story about Partition‚ and very possibly the best one. I’d argue that it is in fact the best‚ and that most of the other good candidates are also by Manto. This story was one of his last ones; it was published in "Phundne" (Lahore: Maktabah-e Jadid) in 1955‚ the year of his death. The story is told by a reliable but not omniscient narrator who speaks as a Pakistani‚ and seems to be a Lahori. The narration is for the most part so straightforward that the
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Strategies for translating and interpreting cultural words related to ecology and material culture As you may know‚ translation and interpretation are a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions. As this statement implies‚ translators and interpreters are permanently faced with the problem of how to treat the culture aspects implicit in a source text and of finding the most appropriate technique of successfully conveying these aspects in
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Literal Interpretation in Literature Literature is meant to provide a perspective on life. Phrases or quotes found in works of literature may be used to help express one’s own thoughts‚ to describe a particular situation‚ or even to apply the circumstances in another piece of literature. Readers often utilize literary quotes for this purpose‚ yet not every reader will interpret a given quote the same way. One example of a phrase which can have many different meanings is the biblical quote
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texts. As translation by humans is based on understanding‚ the translator needs knowledge in order to detect cultural aspects. This is possible by putting down implicit cultural references to certain structures on the text level. Cultural elements appear in the text on all levels – from the concept and form of words‚ to the sentence and text structure‚ to pragmatics. Examples for the various appearances are presented in the first part of the paper. The second part discusses translation as a writing
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Translating Stanadayini: the Cultural Anxiety behind it When translation occupies a problematic space in the instance of translating from a colonized’s language to a colonizer’s‚ the debate over the representation of the colonized ‘other’ does not arise if the translator herself is rooted in the culture of the colonized. The Bengali story Stanadayini is composed by the well known writer Mahasweta Devi‚ and translated into English as Breast-Giver
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Translation can be described as the father of all sciences in a foreign language. All the scientific experiences and theoretical knowledge cannot be shared around the world without the use of translation. So‚ translation is important fields for both languages and cultures. Translators bear the responsibility of reconstructing the source text in a target language. For the descriptive point of view‚ Tory (1995‚ p. 56) states that translation is an activity which ‘inevitably involves at least two languages
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An Analysis of English-Chinese Subtitle Translating Strategies: Taking Gossip Girl as an Example Ⅰ. Introduction A. An overview of the study Subtitle translation studies began with the development of film industry‚ high technology and globalization. From a tentative start involving somewhat superficial contributions to audiovisual translation in the late 1950s and the early 1960s‚ followed by a couple of decades of relative lethargy in the 1970s and 1980s‚ people have entered a period of vigorous
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TRANSLATING COLLOQUIAL IDIOMS/METAPHORS IN THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: A COMPARISON OF METAPHORICAL MEANING RETENTION IN THE SPANISH AND CATALAN TEXTS MICHAEL O’MARA Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir Michael.Omara@ucv.es 57 In spite of the novel’s position among the American Library Association’s list of the one hundred most frequently censored books‚ The Catcher in the Rye (1951)‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ is widely considered to be one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth
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com/articles/article1333.php Stylistic Problems Confronting Arab Students in Arabic-English Translation By Kadhim H. Bakir (Ph.D.) and Hashim G. Lazim (M.A.) Faculty of Foreign Languages & Translation Ajman University of Science & Technology UAE Become a member of TranslationDirectory.com at just 6 EUR/month (paid per year) Advertisements: | | 1. Introduction Translation‚ which procures increasing significance at present‚ has‚ from time immemorial‚ attracted the
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streets and places. But what if these signs or the English versions are wrong compared with the original Chinese meanings? The current situation of bilingual public signs or English public signs in China is far from satisfying. Bunches of wrong translations of public signs can be found‚ most of which are caused by careless spelling‚ grammar errors‚ cultural gaps or proficiency failures of translators. In major cities like Beijing and Shanghai‚ host of 2008 Olympics and World Expo 2010‚ the problem
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