Poetry is considered one of the most challenging literary genre to translate. American poet Robert Frost argues that “poetry is what gets lost in translation‚" (qtd. in Gentzler 27) which is agreed by many others. Many scholars even denied that possibility for poetry to be translated into other languages‚ namely its untranslatability. Translatability is “the capacity for some kind of meaning to be transferred from one language to another without undergoing radical change.” (Baker & Malmkjær 273)
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The texts which I have studied in my comparative course are “The Great Gatsby” (G.G.) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Casablanca” (C.B.) directed by Micheal Curtiz and “Translations” (T.) written by Brian Friel. The cultural context of all three texts impacts on how and why the people behave the way they do. In this essay I will examine the elements which I thought had the most significant impact on the characters which contributed to their behaviour throughout the narratives. The first aspect
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Lee Chung lin 9934812 Professor Shih Translation Projects 28 June 2011 Ideological Influence on Satire Translation: Comparison on Two Chinese Translations of Animal Farm by Taiwanese and Chinese Translators Chapter One: Introduction In cultural turn‚ translation studies jump out of the equivalence between the source text and target text but started to investigate more about the nonlinguistic factors influences the translation process. Amongst these studies‚ ideological influences have
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Assignment #1 – Translation and Translator Competence 1. PACTES’s multi-component model vs. Pym’s minimalist approach (700 w) Similarities and Differences Similarities between PACTES’s model and Pym’s minimalist approach The similarities of these two researches are‚ first of all‚ about the translation competence. Both of researches are to develop the better translation teaching method of translation. And second one is the new attempt to understand of existing theory of translation competence
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Cantonese cuisines haven’t had English versions or the present translation is really bad and that makes foreigners confuse about the food they order in the restaurants. So this thesis is going to analyze the present situation of Cantonese cuisine translation under the guidance of skopostheorie and its extensions. 4.2 A General Analysis of the Translation of the Cantonese Cuisine from the Perspective of the Translation Brief Translation is normally done by assignment. A client needs a text for a
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Translation Errors in the English Version of Tourism Publications jimay Although many tourism publications have English translations interspersed between passages of Chinese‚ the quality of these translated texts is not so satisfying. Some postgraduates are often engaged in translating Chinese into English; therefore‚ as an English teacher‚ the author thinks it is necessary to discuss the errors in these translation works so as to develop good English taste among students. As for the errors in
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Seamus Haney’s translation and the Fitz and Fitzgerald translation of the first Ode of Antigone differ in their portrayals of the strength and resilience of man. While both translations paint humanity as having ingenuity and power‚ Haney’s translation describes man as being able to overcome anything through hard work in conjunction with the world around him while the Fitz and Fitzgerald translation portrays man as all-powerful and in complete control of his surroundings‚ describing his achievement
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Hanem El Farahty shows the history of legal translation . It begins in the early of the nineteenth century and increasing in the twentieth century because the awareness of the importance of legal translation grows in this period. That is because of a code created by Napoleon named nopeolic code that affected other countries such as Germany. In the twenties century‚ The importance of translation reached its top in particular legal translation plays necessary role in interaction and globalization
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OF WARSAW POLAND To Professor Stanisław Dubisz with friendship and respect TRANSLATION OF OLD TEXTS AS A PROCESS OF SECONDARY ARCHAISATION Abstract: In the introduction there are described terms connected with the issues of translation as an archaic stylization. The aim of study is to present creative techniques in archaizing translations of old texts. Methods and materials: author refers to contemporary translation theories‚ especially to G. Steiner’s conception of historical stylization and
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On the Application of Relevance Theory to Chinese-English Translation of Tourism Texts I. Introduction A. Background and purpose of this research Tourism industry has become a new highlight in the world economy following telecommunications and information industries. According to the estimates of the World Tourism Organization and many other insiders‚ China will be the world’s largest tourist receiving country with the capacity of hosting more than 1 .137 billion foreign tourists by the
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