Metaphors in Foreign Movies employed by Iranian Subtitlers By Omid Jafari‚ Allameh Tabatabaie University Post Grad.Student‚ Translation Studies Become a member of TranslationDirectory.com at just 7 EUR/month (paid per year) Abstract The purpose of the present thesis was to investigate the approaches and strategies employed by Iranian subtitlers in the translation of metaphors into Persian. The material gathered for this purpose consisted of six subtitled films. The films were selected
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A Response to Derrida’s Des Tours de Babel In Des Tours de Babel‚ Derrida questions the authority of the translator and the translated text. He questions whether these translations could ever represent the “pure language” they originate from. Ultimately Derrida answers this question and says that a translation can never have exactly the same meaning as the original because it can never be as pure and meaningful as it is in the natural tongue. Derrida starts by commenting on the word “Babel”
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Ideological Manipulation in Translation in a Chinese Context: Su Manshu ’s Translation of Les Misérables by Li Li | | | | | | | | |1. Introduction:
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Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1. Lexical problems of translation…………………………………… 1.1 Complete lexical correspondences……………………………………… 1.2 Partial lexical correspondences…………………………………………. 1.3 Absence of lexical correspondences…………………………………… Chapter 2. Lexical difficulties of translation ………………………………….. 2.1 Types of lexical transformations……………………………………… 2.2 Translation of words having no correspondence in TL……………… Conclusion…………………………………………………………………
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July 2010‚ Volume 8‚ No.7 (Serial No.82) US-China Foreign Language‚ ISSN1539-8080‚ USA (De)constructing humour across languages and genres Sara Laviosa (English Language and Translation‚ University of Bari (Aldo Moro)‚ Bari 70125‚ Italy) Abstract: In Western societies‚ humour appears in many different communicative events‚ and is variedly expressed through words‚ pictures‚ sounds and body language. Humour is peculiar in that it is creative‚ compelling and culture-specific‚ and produces
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the one to get his bike stolen and not many people had helped him capture the thief‚ unlike where at the end the man who Antonio tried to steal from had gotten a lot of help. But that is to go without saying that the term “life is unfair” is put literal. Although I had felt sympathetic towards Antonio most of the film‚ it really phased me when he tried stealing another man’s bicycle because it seemed he reached a point that had been unnecessary to do. As soon as I saw this happen‚ my sympathy left
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represents the closest equivalent of a SLword or phrase. Nida and Taber make it clear that there are not always formal equivalents between language pairs. They therefore suggest that these formal equivalents should be usedwherever possible if the translation aims at achieving formal rather than dynamic equivalence.The use of formal equivalents might at times have serious implications in the TT since thetranslation will not be easily understood by the target audience (Fawcett‚ 1997). Nida andTaber themselves
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Reflection according to Reid (1993) is “a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse and evaluate and so inform learning from practice." It has been defined by many theorists and has been the subject of many books and journals. It is a form of self-assessment where student nurses are encouraged to analyse a situation to draw lessons learned for future practice (Price‚ 2005). I have given fictitious names on all that was involved to maintain confidentiality in
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lectures contain figurative language and that the teachers use what is called idiomatic expressions in about one out of every ten words when addressing a class. An idiom‚ according to Wikipedia.com‚ “is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself‚ but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.” For example‚ the word hot has several of
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Exsanguination Dawn The River How does Judith Beveridge use setting to convey meaning? Wolf Notes‚ an anthology of Judith Beveridge’s‚ transcends the literal meaning of its writing through the emphasis placed on scenery. Beveridge formulates her poems on the concept of specific and detailed settings‚ conveying reason and meaning in a way that cannot be done otherwise. Several of her poems particularly sponsor this idea: Dawn‚ quite simply is a observation of nature‚ hence uses nature to express
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