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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Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lenk‚ Uta. 1998. Marking discourse coherence. Tubingen: Genter Narr Verlag. McEnery‚ et al Olohan‚ Maeve. 2004. Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies. London; New York: Routledge. Saldanha‚ G. 2009. Principles of corpus linguistics and their application to translation studines research Taglicht‚ Josef. 2001. Actually‚ there’s more to it than meets the eye. English Language and Linguistics 5(1): 1-16. Wehmeier‚ S. (ed). 2005. Oxford Advanced Learner‘s
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On Translation Methods of Chinese Menus from The Perspectives of Foreignization and Domestication Contents Introduction 1 1. Theoretical framework for the study 1 1.1 Literal translation & free translation 1 1.2 Foreignization & domestication 2 1.3 The relationship between the two couples of terms 2 2. Methodology 2 3. Features of Chinese dishes 3 3.1 Materials of Chinese dishes 3 3.2 Cutting styles of Chinese dishes 4 3.3 Cooking methods of Chinese dishes 4 4. Problems in existing menu translation
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Abstract: Translation as a way of communication not only transforms languages but also transplants cultural information. Thus‚ brand name translation as other translation is a form of cross-cultural communication and is influenced by various cultural factors. This paper tries to explore the methods of English-Chinese brand name translation in light of the features of Chinese consumer psychology. Key words: brand names; Chinese consumer psychology; translation; methodsIntroductionNowadays‚ brand
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culture to other countries‚ and this has proved to be a great challenge. Though there are many dictionaries and handbooks which study Chinese neologisms and the translation of Chinese neologisms‚ the study of neologism translation is far from enough. This thesis will discuss the translation strategies in order to accomplish the translation of Chinese neologisms efficiently by adopting the theoretical foundation of Eugene A. Nida’s Functional Equivalence. The thesis is divided into six parts. The
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they feel stunned and baffled. For the English translations of Chinese menus are often incomprehensible and misleading. However‚ such awareness has not led to an in-depth study on menu translation. In this paper‚ the author draws on theories of foreignization and domestication‚ and recommends foreignization as a main strategy and domestication as a supplementary choice. In conjunction with it‚ the author suggests a set of techniques for menu translation. It is hoped that this will contribute to the
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characters of the opposite sex to end up in the eventual steamy‚ bed sheet churning scene that leaves us feeling incredibly underwhelmed and emotionally cheated because‚ after all‚ we knew it was going to happen. In the 2003 romantic comedy Lost in Translation‚ Sofia Coppola drops us into the city of Tokyo and introduces us to Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson). Two lost souls just trying to understand their respective situations who find solace in each other and perhaps something
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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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The Reproduction of categories of content in the Georgian Translations of ’The Happay Prince’ by Oscar Wild By Tamar Osidze MA Student of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Publishing collections of fairy tales turned out to be a crucial point along Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde’s great creative path and it marks the beginning of the second important period of his life as a writer. The reality of Victorian London and Dublin is depicted in “The Happy Prince”. The simplicity
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Ministry of Education and Youth of the Republic of Moldova Cahul State University ”B. P. Hasdeu” Phylology and History Faculty English Philology Departent Research Paper Theme: „Lexical Pecularities and Translation Difficulties in ”The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger.” Cahul 2010 Content Introduction……………………………………………………………..............................3 Chapter I The Modernist Literature 1. The literature in the 19 century……………………………………...............................6 2
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