that person to suffer (or gain from) the appropriate outcome. Such was the case in Oedipus’s story. The great Sophoclean play‚ Oedipus Rex is an amazing play‚ and one of the first of its time to accurately portray the common tragic hero. Written in the time of ancient Greece‚ Sophocles perfected the use of character flaws in Greek drama with Oedipus Rex. Using Oedipus as his tragic hero‚ Sophocles’ plays forced the audience to experience a catharsis of emotions. Sophocles showed the play-watchers
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Extra material for chapter 4 Van Leuven-Zwart’s comparative–descriptive model of translation shifts1 The most detailed attempt to produce and apply a model of shift analysis has been carried out by Kitty van Leuven-Zwart of Amsterdam. Van Leuven-Zwart’s model takes as its point of departure some of the categories proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet and Levý and applies them to the descriptive analysis of a translation‚ attempting both to systematize comparison and to build in a discourse framework
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Oedipus‚ The Tragic Hero The story of Oedipus is a prime example of a classic tragedy. A classic tragedy is described as a story that involves a successful being who‚ because of a flaw‚ experiences a downfall. Like a classical tragedy‚ Oedipus is a tragic hero whom fulfills his prophecy and brings disaster and tragedy to his city and family. The story of Oedipus has the elements for a classic tragedy‚ such as Oedipus’s tragic tale‚ the developing of the plot‚ and the downfall at the end. A tragic
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MEANING OF THE WORD ‘TRANSLATION’ FROM VARIOUS DICTIONARIES: ➢ Wikipedia: Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. ➢ General Oxford Dictionary: Translation n 1 the act or an instance of translating. 2 a written or spoken expression of the meaning of a word‚ speech‚ book‚ etc. in another language. ➢ Dictionary of Translation Studies: Translation: An incredibly broad notion which can be understood
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Domestication and foreignization are strategies in translation‚ regarding the degree to which translators make a text conform to the target culture. Domestication is the strategy of making text closely conform to the culture of the language being translated to‚ which may involve the loss of information from the source text. Foreignization is the strategy of retaining information from the source text‚ and involves deliberately breaking the conventions of the target language to preserve its meaning
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Commentory on translation Choisir une notion (foreignization) ? Explain and expand it Explain the key concepts Critics about Relate this approach to the translation task Seminar paper choisir un article qui parle de traduction resumez l’article et presentez les differents point critiques qui on été faites sur l’auteur critiques justifiés ou pas ? Domestication and Foreignization Theory Domestication and foreignization are two basic translation strategies which provide both
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theme in Oedipus the King. The two most affected characters by this main theme are Oedipus‚ the king‚ and Tiresias‚ the blind seer. Oedipus is affected because while he is not literally blind‚ he is blinded by ambition to find the killer of Laius‚ and blind to what is happening around him. Tiresias‚ who is actually blind‚ is a prophet and understands what is happening around him. Oedipus does not understand what is happening around him‚ but can see‚ while Tiresias is the opposite. Oedipus‚ whose
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Delhi) 2013-2014 LEGAL TRANSLATIon SUBMITTED TO: INTRODUCTION TRANSLATION Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Semantic Translation: Semantic translation takes advantage of semantics that associate meaning with individual data elements in one dictionary to create an equivalent meaning in a second system. Literal Translation: Literal translation‚ or directed translation‚ is the rendering of text
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TRANSLATION: The process of turning an original or "source" text into a text in another language. TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES Direct Translation Techniques are used when structural and conceptual elements of the source language can be transposed into the target language. Direct translation techniques include: * Borrowing * Calque * Literal Translation Borrowing Borrowing is the taking of words directly from one language into another without translation. For example software‚ funk. English
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“Do you want to see the most beautiful thing I’ve ever filmed?”(American Beauty) asks Ricky Fitts as the camera is pointed to his girlfriend‚ Jane Burnham. The scene cuts to the back of their heads‚ the two of them sitting side by side‚ and a TV in the middle on the desk in front of them. A plastic bag floats in the wind along with some brown leaves against a red brick background. There are several seconds of silence before soft music begins to play. Ricky begins a monologue about the day this was
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