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    outstanding translations‚ two of which are by Burton Raffel and Seamus Heaney‚ different ways of writing are portrayed. Grendel’s description is written quite differently in both translations. Heaney’s translation is more similar to the Anglo-Saxon style of writing than Raffel’s translation. In Heaney’s translation‚ he uses a kenning to describe the Danes whereas Raffel uses simple wording to get the same story across. Heaney calls The Danish people “Ring-Danes” to get his translation to be closer

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    there are many different translations. Each translation tells the same story but in a different way‚ a way in which someone may comprehend differently. However‚ one of the first translations was Lehmanns. Ruth Lehmann’s translation was known as the most related to the old the version or also known as the imitative translation.He had used a formatting where there were tons of breaks‚ more complex words‚ and less modern in general. However‚ compared to the other translations all of them vary and compare

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    of an answer that is too far from their minds to figure out themselves. The fact that a very simple question is asked truly reflects how separated Eva and Helga actually are. A series of questions follow from the above‚ such as Helga asking who Evelyn is. This is quite I believe that there is also a separation of identity from Eva too; the fact that Eva has changed her name on the naturalisation papers to ‘Evelyn’ strongly supports this. In my opinion she does not have a real sense of identity. She

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    Lesson 35‚ 莊子秋水 (3) 河伯曰:「若物之外,若物之內,惡至而倪貴賤?惡至而倪小大?」北海若曰:「以道觀之,物無貴賤; The earl of the He said‚ ’Whether the subject be what is external in things‚ or what is internal‚ how do we come to make a distinction between them as noble and mean‚ and as great or small?’ Ruo of the Northern Sea replied‚ ’When we look at them in the light of the Dao‚ they are neither noble nor mean. 以物觀之,自貴而相賤:以俗觀之,貴賤不在己。以差觀之,因其所大而大之,則萬物莫不大;因其所小而小之,則萬物莫不小。 Looking at them in themselves‚ each thinks itself noble‚ and despises

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    Carly Underkoffler Dr. Brendon Corcoran English 338-401 April 19‚ 2011 The Holocaust: Death by Lost Hope "If you lose hope‚ somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving‚ you lose that courage to be‚ that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all." - Martin Luther King The Holocaust was a horrific genocide in which the Nazi party systematically exterminated millions of Jews‚ homosexuals‚ mentally retarded persons‚ and others‚ on the pretense of ‘purifying’ the German race. The Nazis

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    Transmission of Ideology through Translation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chomsky’s “Media Control” and its Persian Translations Zahra Khajeh Islamic Azad University‚ Bandar Abbas Branch roshanak82kh@yahoo.com Hajar Khanmohammad Islamic Azad University‚ Central Tehran Fer987295kia@yahoo.com Abstract Among factors that might manipulate translators’ mind while producing a text is the notion of ideology transmission through text or talk. Adopting Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with particular

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    Literary Translation as a Creative Act Literary translation implies the translation of all genres of literature‚ which include prose‚ drama and poetry. Literature is described as ’an apparently nebulous body of knowledge in oral or written form‚ an imitation of life‚ which reflects civilization and culture‚ and which covers every angle of human activities-culture‚ tradition‚ entertainment‚ information among others.’ It is one of the great creative and universal means of communicating the emotional

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    Annotation The problems of translation of economic terms in bilingual periodicals published in Ukraine (on the basis of newspaper “Den’/The Day”‚ “Dzerkalo Tyzhnia/Mirror Weekly”). Object: to analyze linguostylistic‚ lexical‚ grammatical and pragmatic problems of translation. According to the classification of Katherine Rice‚ newspaper publications belong to the pragmatic type of texts. That is why the problems of translation should not be limited only to the linguostylistic analysis. In

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    Adapting the Unfamiliar… through Translation. Marjorie Agosín (born June 15‚ 1955).Source: Wikipedia. 07/12/2012 Komal Shah Eng. 101C- 24 R. C. Muniz 333

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    corpora in translation‚ types of corpora and general application of different corpora in translation studies. 2.1 Why use corpora in translation studies According to Bowker and Pearson (2002:9)‚ a corpus is “a large collection of authentic texts that have been gathered in electronic form according to a specific set of criteria”. (Bowker and Pearson 2002:9) and corpus research has greatly influenced the way we study and investigate translation a lot. The use of corpus in translation studies

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