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Pinto, María. "Quality Factors in Documentary Translation." Traduction 46, no. 2 (October 2, 2002): 288–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/003840ar.
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Abstract Well aware of the difficulties involved in integrating translating models and quality systems, we offer an overview of relevant developments in the field. Particular emphasis is placed on the pragmatic connotations of translation and on the methodological aspects of the Quality Paradigm, an approach to documentary translation that focuses activity on the target user.
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Zlobina, O. N., and G. Yu Vorozhtsov. "DOCUMENTARY FROM TRANSLATION PERSPECTIVE (BASED ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE DOCUMENTARY “A LIFE IN JAPAN”)." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 12 (December 25, 2020): 126–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2020-12-126-134.
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The article discusses one of the problems of audiovisual translation – translation of documentary films, taking “A Life in Japan” by a Swedish director Petri Storlopare as an example. The choice of the film was determined by the presence of difficult situations from the point of view of translation, as well as by the lack of Russian translation. The paper considers typical characteristics of an operational interview which is an important constituent of the film under study. Special attention is given to the problem of synphase in voice-over translation. The topic is relevant as there are no fundamental theoretical papers devoted to translation of documentaries, both in domestic and foreign translation studies. The main goal was to consider the existing algorithms and strategies of audiovisual translation and to find the most optimal ways of translating the definite documentary film. We employed the following methods of analyzing the data: comparative analysis, lexicographic analysis, contextual analysis and communicative analysis. The conducted research allows to define the main problems of translating documentaries, they include transmitting the meaning of realia of another country’s culture and solving the “phase shift” problem when syncing the text in voice-over translation. In this paper we tried to account for our own translation solutions. The research has shown that it is possible to achieve adequacy of translation by using compression, a certain set of transformations and techniques for transferring the meaning of culturally marked lexical units.
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Zlobina, O. N., and G. Yu Vorozhtsov. "DOCUMENTARY FROM TRANSLATION PERSPECTIVE (BASED ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE DOCUMENTARY “A LIFE IN JAPAN”)." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 12 (December 25, 2020): 126–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2020-12-126-134.
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The article discusses one of the problems of audiovisual translation – translation of documentary films, taking “A Life in Japan” by a Swedish director Petri Storlopare as an example. The choice of the film was determined by the presence of difficult situations from the point of view of translation, as well as by the lack of Russian translation. The paper considers typical characteristics of an operational interview which is an important constituent of the film under study. Special attention is given to the problem of synphase in voice-over translation. The topic is relevant as there are no fundamental theoretical papers devoted to translation of documentaries, both in domestic and foreign translation studies. The main goal was to consider the existing algorithms and strategies of audiovisual translation and to find the most optimal ways of translating the definite documentary film. We employed the following methods of analyzing the data: comparative analysis, lexicographic analysis, contextual analysis and communicative analysis. The conducted research allows to define the main problems of translating documentaries, they include transmitting the meaning of realia of another country’s culture and solving the “phase shift” problem when syncing the text in voice-over translation. In this paper we tried to account for our own translation solutions. The research has shown that it is possible to achieve adequacy of translation by using compression, a certain set of transformations and techniques for transferring the meaning of culturally marked lexical units.
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Shuyue, Zhang, and Wang Feng. "Eco-Translatology Perspective on the English Translation of Subtitles in the Documentary Eight Hundred Years of Chu State." Humanities and Social Science Research 2, no. 3 (July 24, 2019): p5. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/hssr.v2n3p5.
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Based on the concept of translational eco-environment, oriental ecological wisdom, and the Darwinian principle of natural selection, the concepts of eco-translatology and relevant theoretical ideas were proposed and explained by Professor Hu Gengshen from 2001 on. This interdisciplinary theory of translation studies and ecology considers translation as a translator's adaptation and selection activities, and its translation methods include the linguistic, cultural, and communication aspects. Eight Hundred Years of Chu State is a large-scale documentary about Chu culture. It systematically tells about the great history of the 800 years of Chu State, interpreting the brilliant and splendid civilization of Chu with its magnificent cultural relics, and revealing the laws worth pondering behind its ups and downs. Taking as examples the Chinese-English subtitle translations of the documentary Eight Hundred Years of Chu State, this paper aims to take the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective of eco-translatology to explore its implications for documentary translation from the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions. Aiming also to improve the English translation of Chinese-made documentaries to a higher level, this paper hopes to promote the spread of Chinese traditional culture, especially Jingchu culture, and to enhance the world's understanding of China and its splendid culture.
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Nord, Christiane. "Skopos and (Un)certainty: How Functional Translators Deal with Doubt." Meta 61, no. 1 (June 28, 2016): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1036981ar.
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There are no rules for translation. Translation is a decision-making process, and each decision point involves uncertainty. In the following article, I would like to show how, from a skopos-theoretical perspective, a top-down procedure can at least reduce uncertainty to some degree. The top level is that of the translation brief, which determines the choice of translation type and form. This is a binary decision. A documentary translation usually “documents” the pragmatics of the source text, whereas an instrumental translation gets a pragmatics of its own, for example with regard to deixis. At the next level, the translator has to deal with cultural norms and conventions. Here, the decision becomes more complex because the brief may require the reproduction of some source-culture behaviours and the adaptation of others to target-culture conventions, both in documentary and instrumental translations. The next level is that of language. We may safely assume that most translations are expected to conform to the norms of the target-language system, but there may be cases where source-language norms have to be reproduced, for example in an interlinear translation for linguistic purposes. At the last two levels, the remaining doubts have to be resolved first in line with contextual restrictions and, ultimately, the translator’s personal preferences, if necessary.
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Zhou, Yang, and Rouqi Zhang. "A Brief Analysis of Subtitle Translation of Documentary Wild China from the Perspective of Eco-translatology." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 10 (October 1, 2019): 1301. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0910.06.
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Based on the principle of truth, the documentary exchanges knowledge and conveys emotions. The documentary Wild China has received strong attention from domestic and foreign audiences since its launch on National Geographic. However, due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, most Chinese viewers need subtitle translation to have a better understanding of this documentary. Unlike the subtitle translation of films and TV plays, the content of the documentary has strong professionalism and knowledge. Thus, documentary subtitle translation requirements are also higher than those of films and TV plays. Meanwhile, it is necessary to discuss the subtitle translation of documentaries. Ecological translation was first proposed by Professor Hu Gengshen. In the past ten years, many remarkable research results have been achieved. Taking ecological translation as the theoretical support, this paper chooses the subtitle translation of the documentary Wild China (CCTV) as the research object, and combines the theoretical discussion and the case analysis to focus on the translator’s “adaptation” and “selection” in the linguistic, cultural and communicative dimensions, thus verifying the guiding significance of eco-translatology to the subtitle translation of the documentary and supplementing the theoretical research perspective of subtitle translation of the documentary.
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Abdi, Hamidreza. "The Importance of Higher Education in the Success of the Translator: The Case of Iranian Educated and Uneducated Translators." International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies 2, no. 3 (July 31, 2021): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlts.v2i3.161.
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The present study investigated the important role higher education plays in the success of the translator in his/her profession. To end this, the researcher prepared a translation test consisting of 12 short literary texts for data collection from both educated and uneducated translators who were equally divided into two groups. The 20 judges were invited to judge the level of communicative function of the translations made by both groups of translators on the basis of a five-point scale on a continuum from "Uncommunicative" to "Communicative" that was designed according to Nord’s (2018) functionalist approach. As the results indicated, the educated translators produced the highest communicative translations that put into Nord’s instrumental translation category. By contrast, the uneducated translators made the translations with the average level of communication that led their translation to be placed into documentary translation category. In conclusion, the educated translators, who held a master’s degree in Translation Studies, were more successful in producing communicative translations because of their profound knowledge of translation theories and mastery over translation strategies. This gives the indication of the utmost importance of higher education in the achievement of the translators in their career.
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Lopez, Belinda. "Reversing silences in West Papua: Interdisciplinary research and (audio) documentary." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 200–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1097.
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Journalism about West Papua is in many ways an act of translation. It involves not only translating between languages, but also disciplines, audiences and knowledges. This article examines how interdisciplinary research—such as anthropology and history— might intersect with journalism as a means to understand and challenge existing gaps in translation, or ‘silences’ about West Papua in the past and present. It also reflects on how audio documentaries carry out such translation work on misunderstood and underreported issues. To illustrate this, the author reflects on the process of making the audio documentary #Illridewithyou, West Papua for ABC Radio National’s Earshot documentary programme as well as a companion long-form article for the ABC’s website.
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Mersmann, Birgit. "Photo-translation." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 32, no. 2 (July 7, 2020): 191–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.20088.mer.
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Abstract This article introduces the concept of ‘photo-translation’ for studying documentary photography as a collaborative practice of visual translation. The visual-translational approach to photo documentation is applied in a novel way to the emerging field of contemporary migration photography, thus relating recent theoretical connections between translation and migration studies to explorations in visual studies. The study discusses how participatory and collaborative practices are increasingly used in contemporary photo documentation to challenge, if not remove, the relational ‘othering’ effect inherent in the photo-documentary representation of refugees, migrants and displaced peoples. The potential of translaboration as a mode of translational collaboration is explored through an in-depth analysis of two photo projects: (1) the participatory photo project Fotohistorias (Gomez and Vannini 2015), conducted by social and information scientists Ricardo Gomez and Sara Vannini in cooperation with migrants at the US–Mexico border; and (2) the collaborative photo–graphic novel project Lampedusa: Image Stories from the Edge of Europe (Migrant Image Research Group 2017), carried out by the Migrant Image Research Group under the guidance of Armin Linke. Demanding agency in visual translation proves to be essential for these participatory photo projects, since they aim to challenge dominant visual representations of how migration is narrated and represented in the media and academic discourse. For this reason, the investigation draws on new sociological approaches in Translation Studies in order to frame photo-translation as a social practice and as a form of (activist) engagement involving various agents and institutions.
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Yang, Yeheng, and Yi Li. "Documentary Subtitle Chinese-English Translation from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence: A Study on the Documentary China’s Fight against Covid-19." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 6 (June 29, 2021): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.6.6.
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This paper adopts Nida's Functional Equivalence theory and studies the Chinese-English subtitle translation of the documentary China’s Fight against Covid-19, which was filmed and broadcast throughout China amid the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020, and it received positive responses in the country. The research objective is to find out the translation strategies, methods and skills involved in achieving the “most natural” and the “most closest” English expressions to the Chinese source text. In the study, investigations on the equivalence of Lexical level, Syntactical level, Contextual level and Textual level in the subtitle are conducted respectively, and the aforementioned translation aspects are discussed under the guidance of Nida’s functional equivalence. The key findings are that the translated texts adopt literal and liberal translation to deal with the Culture-loaded words and four-character idioms on a lexical level. While sentence restructuring, conversion of voice, and conjunction and present particle are used on the syntactic level to make source language and translated subtitle more coherent and authentic. On the contextual and textual level, the target text distinguishes the formal and informal languages through the sentence length and the complexity of the structure. This study offers a practical implication for translating Chinese pandemic discourses into English, and it can also shed light on the study of Chinese narratives during the COVID outbreak and the publicity of the Chinese countermeasures.
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Arbabi, Maryam, and Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani. "Functionalism in Translation: A Case Study Investigation into Translation literature based on Nord's Documentary vs. Instrumental Dichotomy." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22, no. 2 (July 2019): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2019.22.2.51.
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The main objective of the current study was to analyze a Persian Translation of a short story from functionalism perspective and Documentary vs. Instrumental Dichotomy. To this end, the Persian translation of the book titled “The Little Prince” was analyzed and compared with its English version (indirect translation from French) to see if the Persian translation was more documentary or instrumental oriented in nature. The theoretical framework of the study was Nord’s dichotomy of instrumental vs. documentary translation. The book was analyzed at the sentence and above sentence level and covered the whole book. As the qualitative analysis showed, the translation of the book was instrumental oriented, and the book reads like an original in the target language.
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Morozova, Ekaterina Vladimirovna. "Teaching audiovisual translators discourse analysis of documentary films." KANT 38, no. 1 (March 2021): 291–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.24923/2222-243x.2021-38.60.
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The article discusses teaching the analysis of documentary films from the standpoint of a discursive approach. The importance of teaching the analysis of documentary films is due to the specifics of audiovisual production. A documentary film is a polyosemiotic construct combined with verbal, pictorial and sound signs, which are important for the translator to take into account in the translation process. The discursive approach allows to teach future translators to analyze not only the work as a whole, but also to analyze the historical and socio-cultural context in which it was created.
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Filatova, Ekaterina A. "A COMPLEX MODEL OF THE WILD NATURE DOCUMENTARY AVT ANALYSIS." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 3 (2021): 136–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-136-147.
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The article aims at presenting a complex model of the nature documentary AVT (audiovisual translation) analysis. Lambert – van Gorp’s scheme and V. Komissarov’s complex model are widely used and applied to analyzing translation. Those two models make up the basis of AVT analysis. In accordance with Lambert – van Gorp’s scheme, the preliminary data, macro-level, micro-level and systemic context of the nature documentary AVT are studied. V. Komissarov’s five-level equivalence model is also implemented in a complex model of the nature documentary AVT analysis, that model analyzes the equivalence of translation of an audiovisual work at every level and suggests translation strategies to achieve it. The article focuses on the fact that when analyzing the linguistic component of the AVT of a documentary film, it is impossible to negate the audiovisual component. In that regard, audiovisual components and how to translate them into the language of the host country are considered. The audiovisual component implies four codes: music, sound, iconographic and mobility, which are meticulously studied in the article. Following the research the author undertakes the complex model of the wild nature documentary AVT analysis.
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Dimitriu, Rodica. "Translators’ prefaces as documentary sources for translation studies." Perspectives 17, no. 3 (September 2009): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09076760903255304.
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Santos, Luis Miguel Dos. "Nord’s Documentary Versus Instrumental Translation: The Case of Hugo’s Demain, dès L’aube." English Language and Literature Studies 6, no. 3 (August 29, 2016): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v6n3p76.
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<p>Documentary and instrumental strategies were widely employed in translation works. The paper examined the application of documentary and instrumental strategies to the French poem <em>Demain, dès L'aube</em> by Victor Hugo (1802-1885). The author compared numbers of translation works from the academic and public field for the usage of the strategies by Nord (2005). The result indicated that while documentary translation was depicted as an overt version or report of a text in another language. On the other hands, instrumental translation was depicted as a form of communication that was autonomous from the source text (ST) and which might be appraised on how effectively it passed across an author’s message (Chersterman, 2000). These distinctions were useful in the translation of the case text since they both indicated the understanding and consciousness of both cultural and linguistic accommodation during translation in order to pass across the original message intended by the author of the source text (Greenberg, 2003).</p>
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Simonnaes, Ingrid. "Übersetzungstheorien und Gebrauchstexte." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 55, no. 2 (June 17, 2009): 124–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.55.2.02sim.
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The central research question for this paper is how and to what extent translation theories affect the translation of legal texts. I will use the functional-pragmatic approach as one particular modern translation theory and investigate translation solutions in the field of lexical and syntactic problems on the basis of a small corpus of legal texts from the National translator’s exam. As a means of control I compare these solutions with suggested solutions of a small number of candidates preparing themselves for the exam and of some translation experts. My findings show that the old dichotomy free vs. literal is not applicable to this type of translations as we find ourselves on a continuum. The translation brief and the legal force of a particular text influence strongly the translation strategy. Whenever the legal force of the source text supersedes the target text, the strategy of the translator should be at the ‘documentary’ (Nord 1989) end of the continuum. My findings need however to be corroborated on the basis of a much bigger corpus which for the time being is established at the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication at the Norwegian School of Economics and Administration (NHH) including other language pairs than the one from which I have drawn my examples.
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Ogea Pozo, María del Mar. "SUBTITLING DOCUMENTARIES: A LEARNING TOOL FOR ENHANCING SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION SKILLS." CURRENT TRENDS IN TRANSLATION TEACHING AND LEARNING E 7 (December 28, 2020): 445–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.51287/cttl_e_2020_14_mar_ogea.pdf.
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This paper examines the use of subtitles as a learning tool for developing skills required for scientific translation, in the framework of the course "Scientific and Technical Translation" included in the Translation and Interpreting Studies degree at the University of Cordoba. For that purpose, in the present study we aim to discuss and describe the benefits provided by this modality of audiovisual translation by presenting an overview of the previous studies focused on the effectiveness of subtitling in foreign language (FL) learning. However, we intend to go deeper and propose the integration of subtitling not only in translation studies curriculum, but more specifically, in a scientific translation course. Furthermore, the documentary genre is postulated as an optimal audiovisual media to be used for FL specialised language learning. The subtitling activity consisted of three stages: viewing of an informational documentary short movie with original English subtitles, documentation, and translation into Spanish. In order to confirm whether this subtitling practice raises students' motivation and, as a result, brings positive learning results, this study is based on the responses obtained in a questionnaire completed by the participants in the experiment. The main questions are related to the role of multiple semiotic systems as a support for textual comprehension and learning, and the acquisition of specialised terminology, as well as the students' motivation towards a simulation of a professional translation assignment. Keywords: Audiovisual translation, Scientific translation, Documentary genre, Subtitling, FL language
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Youngho Choy and Gyounghuem Um. "The Translation and Annotation of Jeong-An's Documentary Heritage." Journal of Seokdang Academy ll, no. 70 (March 2018): 537–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17842/jsa.2018..70.537.
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Cornejo-Sánchez, Jesús Fernando, Cesar H. Limaymanta, Rossana Delia Mezarina-Castañeda, and Betty Maritza Gálvez-Nores. "Digital Portfolio in The Development of Documentary Competence in University Students [El portafolio digital en el desarrollo de la competencia documental en estudiantes universitarios]." EDUSER 7, no. 2 (July 26, 2020): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.18050/eduser.v7i2.2541.
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Translators face numerous challenges for doing their work, not only linguistic but also multimedia-related challenges. For this reason, translation undergraduate students must develop their documentary competence with a digital portfolio. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the effect of using a digital portfolio for developing documentary competence in the translation students from a private university in Lima. This research is quantitative and has a quasi-experimental design. It has been applied to a course of direct translation for two semesters. The sample was 32 students, 16 of them for control group and 16 for experimental group. A test was given before and after using the digital portfolio, so that documentary competence can be measured in its three dimensions: thematic field, terminology and textual genres. Findings suggest that the digital portfolio is effective for developing documentary competence in the experimental translation group. The use of a virtual platform allows students to develop documentary or instrumental competence and to familiarize themselves with the use of different multimedia resources as repository.
[El traductor se enfrenta a muchos desafíos, tanto en el nivel lingüístico como en el nivel de empleo de recursos multimedia para su labor de traducción. Por ello, es necesario que en pregrado se desarrolle la competencia documental de los futuros traductores con el empleo del portafolio digital. El objetivo de esta investigación es demostrar el efecto del empleo pedagógico de un portafolio digital en el desarrollo de la competencia documental en estudiantes de traducción de una universidad privada de Lima. La investigación fue de enfoque cuantitativo, y diseño cuasiexperimental realizado durante el desarrollo de un curso de traducción directa por dos semestres. La muestra estuvo conformada por 32 estudiantes: 16 para el grupo de control y experimental. Se aplicó un test antes y después de la inducción del portafolio digital con la finalidad de medir la competencia documental con sus tres dimensiones: campo temático, terminológico y géneros textuales. Se concluye que el portafolio digital es efectivo para el desarrollo de la competencia documental en estudiantes de traducción del grupo experimental. El uso de una plataforma virtual permite desarrollar competencias documentales o instrumentales en el estudiante, así como también habituarlo para su uso como repositorio de diferentes recursos multimedia].
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Martens, Klaus. "Institutional Transmission and Literary Translation." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 3, no. 2 (January 1, 1991): 225–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.3.2.06mar.
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Abstract If target texts should be accorded the same amount of serious critical attention usually reserved for source-side literature, increased study of the institutional forces instrumental in its production and mediation is necessary. Such study, to be of documentary value, could be conducted empirically on a case-by-case basis in order to uncover pre-textual elements as, among others, legal and socio-economic issues, in-house rules, publisher-translator relations, and the often rhizomatic personal constellations formative in the constitution of the translated text. The sample case chosen is meant to open further discussion of the issues involved.
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Asratyan, Dmitry K. "The Book of Psalms (1848) — the first experience of Bible translation into Ossetic." Vestnik of North-Ossetian State University, no. 4(2020) (December 25, 2020): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/1994-7720-2020-4-21-30.
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The history of translations of the Holy Scripture and liturgical texts into the Ossetic language has not yet become a subject of systematic study, although the formation of the national intelligentsia is closely connected with this process, as well as the development of standards of the literary language. The aim of this paper is to study the historical context in which the Book of Psalms was translated and published in 1848, becoming the first complete Bible book in Ossetic, as well as to determine its significance in the history of Ossetian literature. Analysis of documentary materials (such as letters of the translator Grigory Mzhedlov, reviews written by Academician Anders Sjögren) and comparison of the published translation with the Hebrew original and other versions give a clue to the principles of translator’s work. An attempt is made to analyze advantages and drawbacks of the translation, as well as the level of its reception and its influence on the further activities of Ossetian national intelligentsia. The translation of the Books of Psalms is considered to be an important step as the first experience in the practical implementation of language norms recorded in the classical grammar of Anders Sjögren, which laid the foundation for the scientific study and teaching of Ossetic language; but the Book of Psalms became obsolete very quickly — due to the appearance of the first generation of the Ossetian intelligentsia and the beginning of systematic collective work on creating the corpus of Church books in Ossetic. Nevertheless, the influence of the 1848 translation can be clearly seen in further Ossetic church translations and should not be underestimated. The study of the development of the literary Ossetic language, the formation of religious terminology is impossible without a serious study of translations of the 19th century, including the earliest of them — the Book of Psalms translated by Grigory Mzhedlov.
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Asratyan, Dmitry K. "The Book of Psalms (1848) — the first experience of Bible translation into Ossetic." Vestnik of North-Ossetian State University, no. 4(2020) (December 25, 2020): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/1994-7720-2020-4-21-30.
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The history of translations of the Holy Scripture and liturgical texts into the Ossetic language has not yet become a subject of systematic study, although the formation of the national intelligentsia is closely connected with this process, as well as the development of standards of the literary language. The aim of this paper is to study the historical context in which the Book of Psalms was translated and published in 1848, becoming the first complete Bible book in Ossetic, as well as to determine its significance in the history of Ossetian literature. Analysis of documentary materials (such as letters of the translator Grigory Mzhedlov, reviews written by Academician Anders Sjögren) and comparison of the published translation with the Hebrew original and other versions give a clue to the principles of translator’s work. An attempt is made to analyze advantages and drawbacks of the translation, as well as the level of its reception and its influence on the further activities of Ossetian national intelligentsia. The translation of the Books of Psalms is considered to be an important step as the first experience in the practical implementation of language norms recorded in the classical grammar of Anders Sjögren, which laid the foundation for the scientific study and teaching of Ossetic language; but the Book of Psalms became obsolete very quickly — due to the appearance of the first generation of the Ossetian intelligentsia and the beginning of systematic collective work on creating the corpus of Church books in Ossetic. Nevertheless, the influence of the 1848 translation can be clearly seen in further Ossetic church translations and should not be underestimated. The study of the development of the literary Ossetic language, the formation of religious terminology is impossible without a serious study of translations of the 19th century, including the earliest of them — the Book of Psalms translated by Grigory Mzhedlov.
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Shama, Iryna. "Contextual pertinence of translation correspondences (based on TV documentary travel-films)." Nova fìlologìâ, no. 77 (2019): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.26661/2414-1135/2019-77-12.
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이은숙. "A Study on Reduced Subtitle Translation in Film and Documentary Genre." Studies in Linguistics ll, no. 15 (November 2009): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17002/sil..15.200911.149.
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EBERHARTER-AKSU, MARGIT, and JOLANTA HINC. "Übersetzungsstrategien von Grimms Rotkäppchen am Beispiel polnischer Übersetzungen." Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics 46, no. 2 (January 8, 2020): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/gl.2019.46.2.03.
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The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm belong to the best-known literary works of Germany, besides the Luther Bible. They are currently published in 160 languages and have been part of the World Documentary Heritage since June 2005. In Poland, they are known in countless translations, adaptations and retellings, some of which have been greatly modified and adapted for teaching purposes and others are literally based on the original texts. The empirical part of the article refers to an experiment in which 19 subjects were presented with a translation task: to transfer selected passages of Little Red Riding Hood into Polish. In the runup to the study, it was hypothesized that the information about the status of the work as part of the World Document Heritage given to study participants should have an effect on the literal translation. The results of the experiment do not confirm the assumed hypothesis, but clearly show that the translation variants above all have to be seen as a continuation of the individual’s experiences with the fairy tale, which strongly influences that individual’s translation
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Turanov, Andrei Alekseevich. "TO THE HISTORY OF TRANSLATION OF BOOKS OF SCRIPTURE INTO THE MARI LANGUAGE: VYATKA TRANSLATIONS OF THE GOSPEL." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 13, no. 3 (September 25, 2019): 495–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2019-13-3-495-502.
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The article on the basis of documentary materials for the first time presents the main steps in the history of the Mari translations of the gospel in the Vyatka province in the light of the activities of the Russian Bible society. The translations were started in December 1820 on the initiative of the leadership of the Vyatka diocese and were carried out by the parish clergy in two counties: in Yaransk the gospel of Matthew was translated, whereas in Urzhumsky the gospel of Mark. The Yaranskiy translation was made in 1821 by S. Bobrovsky, who was a priest in the village Pizhemskоya; the Urzhumskiy translation was completed in 1822, and performed in parts by multiple translators, including the priests K. Ushnurski from the village Toral and A. Popov from the village Yuledur. Both translations were sent for consideration to the metropolitan Committee of the Bible society in early July 1823. The article provides brief biographical information of the translators. In addition, an idea is given of the attempts undertaken in the Vyatka diocese to use translations of Christian texts into the Mari language made outside of the region. In particular, in 1820-1821, a translation of the Liturgy of John Chrysostom was tested in parishes with the Mari population, and in 1824, a suitability test began for the Vyatka Mari people of translations of the Gospel made in Kazan.
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Li, Lan. "The Commentary Translation of China’s International Publicity Documentaries — A Case Study of A Bite of China I." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0801.20.
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As a particular kind of audio-visual programs, Chinese Documentaries for international publicity, which aims at spreading China’s voice and facilitating the understanding of China, have played a significant role in cultural communication. Compared with other translation activities, its translation has some unique features. This paper takes China’s culinary culture documentary A Bite of China I as case, through descriptive method, it comes to the following conclusions: in order to achieve better communication through publicity documentaries, the translator should bear in mind the transferring means, purpose, and target audiences. Firstly, such translation can be included in the field of Audio-visual Translation, so the synchronization between image and sound is the first concern; secondly, In order to show the real China and transmit Chinese culture to the fullest extent possible, the translators had better be source-language centered and translate those cultural specific words literally. Thirdly, to form a coherent and cohesive text, the appropriate transformation of thematic progression is an effective way to achieve the naturalness and acceptability of the target language text.
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Summerhayes, Catherine. "Translative Performance in Documentary Film: Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's Facing the Music." Media International Australia 104, no. 1 (August 2002): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0210400105.
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Facing the Music (2001) is a film that performs at many levels. While its primary narrative is about the effects of government funding cuts to universities, and specifically the effect on the University of Sydney's Music Department, the film also weaves other more generic stories about people and how they interact with each other. Connolly's and Anderson's complex and confronting style of observational film-making is examined in the context of this film for the ways in which it ‘assumes' that film can ‘translate’ the details of people's everyday lives into a broad discussion of particular social issues and conflicts. As with all translations, however, some meanings inadvertently are lost and others added. Drawing on Walter Benjamin's idea of ‘translatability’ and Brecht's concept of gest, this paper describes how particular cultural meanings which are embedded within the documentary film, Facing the Music, can be accessed through the ways in which the audiovisual text ‘melodramatically’ presents people and profilmic events. Thomas Elsaesser's definition of classic fictional melodrama, as a ‘closed’ world of ‘inner’ violence where ‘characters are acted upon’, becomes a guide to understanding the film's secondary narratives about the operation of particular stereotypical, binary representations: men and women; artists and ‘the rest of the world’; academics (‘gown’) and other people (‘town’). Using Laura Mulvey's further distinction of ‘matriarchal’ and ‘patriarchal’ melodramas. Facing the Music is described as a ‘matriarchal’ documentary melodrama. The film's selective translation of how people live their lives in a particular social situation is thereby discussed as a further translation into the broader discourses of gender and power relations in a society.
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Bhangu, Shagufta Kaur. "Pain’s Records: An Anthropological Account of Medical Documentation in South Asia." Administory 4, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 158–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/adhi-2019-0010.
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AbstractThe Institute for Pain Management in Kolkata, like other modern institutions, is organised by record keeping. But the central object of its records, pain, presents a fundamental challenge to documentation. Pain is marked by a non-relational attribute that limits attempts to communicate and express it. I follow the institutional life of one patient and his struggles with health care through his documentary productions. As the paper traces clinical management of his pain, a proliferation of medical records is revealed. The forms of this documentary multiplicity, its materiality and how it enacts pain’s therapeutics are described. The challenge of pain’s communication is addressed by translating a body in pain constituted through artefacts and intersubjective relationships to a body in pain that exists almost entirely on paper. This translation proves efficacious in the eyes of doctors and patients, and is critical to the management of chronic pain in Kolkata.
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Perez, Emilia. "Translation and Subtitling of Documentary Films in Teaching Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication." XLinguae 8, no. 1 (2015): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18355/xl.2015.08.01.28-35.
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Duygun, Tolga. "Policy translation in Turkish disability policy: The role and limitations of international organisations." Global Social Policy 20, no. 3 (June 10, 2020): 305–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468018120928783.
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This article uses the case study of disability policy in Turkey to investigate how the policy of International Organisations (IOs) influences domestic policy and the ways in which domestic actors ‘assemble’ or re-‘assemble’ policies or construct ‘hybrid’ policy. Sociologists have devoted their efforts to finding reasonable explanations for how influence results in translating the policy ideas of international organisations (IOs) to the domestic context. Historically, IOs have been able to advance global disability policy developments; yet, there has been a significant gap in our knowledge of the detailed mechanisms of how IOs’ influence has been exerted at the domestic context. Drawing on both documentary sources and semistructured interviews, we found a combination of inspirational, and both direct and indirect coercive influence of IOs contributed to policy translation in Turkish disability policy between 1980 and 1999. However, there was no evidence for direct influence of neither IOs headquarters nor IOs Turkish offices in the policy translation in disability.
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Marin-Lacarta, Maialen. "Mediated and Marginalised: Translations of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature in Spain (1949-2010)." Meta 63, no. 2 (December 18, 2018): 306–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1055141ar.
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The history and reception of translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in Spain form the basis of the discussion in this article. Eighty-four translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature were published in Spain – either in Spanish or in Catalan – between 1949 and 2010. Using this under-researched corpus as a starting-point, this article explores two interrelated premises: the marginalisation of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in Spain and the mediation of its Spanish reception by Anglophone and Francophone literary systems. To do so, the study investigates the history of translations, pays attention to the evolution of types of translation (direct and indirect), and uses concrete examples from paratexts (back covers and prefaces) and translation reviews. After a discussion of the predominance of indirect translations, three recurring motifs inferred from an analysis of the paratexts and reviews are presented: (a) a preference for documentary value, (b) an insistence on difference and (c) an emphasis on politics and trauma (censorship, dissidence and the Cultural Revolution). In addition, I demonstrate the connections between these recurring motifs in the Spanish reception of Chinese literature in relation to European orientalism and area studies. Ultimately, the recent history of translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in Spain helps us to reflect on the complexity and hierarchical nature of literary exchanges on a global scale.
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Valdeón, Roberto A. "Translating stable sources in times of economic recession." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 62, no. 1 (May 19, 2016): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.62.1.01val.
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This paper examines the translation of economic texts authored by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, published originally by The New York Times in both their printed and Internet editions, and in Spanish by El País. It comprises a small parallel corpus of eighteen original columns and their equivalent Spanish versions, a total of 31,196 words. The article will consider the translation of stable sources (Hernández Guerrero 2009) within the narrative of the economic recession that started in early 2010s. It will use Nord’s functional model (2005) to analyse the texts. The objectives of the study are: (1) to establish whether translators opt for instrumental or documentary translation, and (2) to consider whether stable sources such as the opinion columns written by prominent figures can be regarded as closed sources that do not accept major shifts during the translational process. I will look at extratextual factors such as time, space and motivation, as well as intratextual features such as linking devices, thematic organization, markers of text composition and lexis. In the final section, I will attempt to provide an interpretation from the perspective of communication studies, which might inform translation research as well. For the discussion I will draw on Castells’ proposal for the study of media discourse and its connection with the political power (2009).
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Mansy, Mohammad. "Cultural Pitfalls in Islamic Subtitling." International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies 2, no. 1 (January 24, 2021): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlts.v2i1.110.
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This research explores the challenges of translating cultural references in Islamic TV programs from Arabic into English. Subtitling is a constrained type of translation due to the space and time limitations on the screen. Apart from this challenge, the subtitler has to deal with cultural pitfalls that cannot be separated from a stormy global background that includes political and ideological tensions between the Muslim World and the West. This study investigates these difficulties, attempts to suggest solutions to them and identify the basic qualifications of competent subtitlers of this kind of programs. The ultimate purpose is to help establish healthy communication between Muslim and Western countries through translation which is an act of cultural mediation. To achieve this, three real-life examples and their subtitles have been selected from Iqraa TV programs and analyzed using Christiane Nord’s functional model. Results show three types of cultural pitfalls typical of Islamic TV programs, i. e., Qur’anic allusions, Sunnah allusions and politicized issues. Instrumental translation has been found to be effective in overcoming these cultural pitfalls, while documentary translation proved to be ineffective due to the space limitations and its lack of clarity. Creativity, flexibility, and cultural sensitivity are indispensable for the subtitler to bridge the communication gaps between the source and target cultures.
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Gott, Michael. "“Everything Happens Fast”." Transfers 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 131–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2015.050113.
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Il sorpasso, Italy, 1962; Mario Cecchi Gori (producer); Dino Risi (director), Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Ruggero Maccari (screenplay); starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant. 2014 DVD release by the Criterion Collection includes new English subtitle translation, interviews, essays, excerpts of a documentary, and an introduction by filmmaker Alexander Payne.
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Nayar, Pramod K. "From Documentary Realism to Figurative Realism: Igort's The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks and the Holodomor." CounterText 4, no. 3 (December 2018): 362–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2018.0139.
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This essay examines the five stories on the Holodomor in Igort's graphic memoir, The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule (English translation, 2016). It argues that the trauma-aesthetic in Igort's work demonstrates a shift from the documentary realist mode through a participatory documentary mode to a figurative realism. If the first seeks to deliver the tragedy of the Holodomor through a certain distanced objective perspective, the second smoothly undermines it by showing us the subjective mediation, of survivors and Igort. The third complicates the trauma by turning humans into ghosts in what the essay argues is a new trauma-aesthetic.
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Filatova, Ekaterina Alekseevna. "Norms of Translating Popular Science Documentaries about Wildlife (by the Example of the Soviet Translation of the Documentary “Galapagos”)." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 12 (December 2020): 272–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2020.12.56.
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El-Zawawy, Amr M. "A syntactico-semantic approach to the translation of conditionals in two English versions of Sahih Muslim." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 62, no. 3 (November 21, 2016): 423–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.62.3.04zaw.
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Conditionals in English can traditionally be viewed according to two different perspectives. One is a simplistic approach based on certain ‘cases’; the other is centered on the truth value of the protasis and apodosis. This argument is based on the semantics of the conditional structures, regardless of the syntax involved. In a similar vein, the complexity of conditionals in Arabic stems from the fact that the syntax of the conditional structure does not necessarily point to the semantics involved. This affinity between the two language systems in terms of conditionality is examined within the context of two English translations of the Arabic religious text Sahih Muslim. The present study adopts an approach that focuses on both syntax and semantics to underline the interplay and/or dissociation of the two in practice. The study reveals that Siddiqui’s versions of translating ‘law’ (and its variant ‘law-la’) and ‘inn’ structures into English are mostly inaccurate, where the syntax-semantics interplay and/or dissociation is not duly observed in practice. Khattab’s versions, however, point to a tendency to start from the entrenched premise of literalism, which is stimulated by adopting the simplistic approach to English conditional structures, being akin to documentary translation where awkwardness is common practice.
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Maurice, Nathalie. "Terminologie et information multilingue." Terminology 4, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 85–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.4.1.06mau.
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Terminology and documentation have always had among their objectives that of overcoming linguistic difficulties inhibiting communication of specialized information. The ever-increasing availability of primary documents in electronic form and resultant proliferation of research possibilities pose in fundamental terms the issue of language as a tool in documentary systems. Irrespective of the research method applied, linguistic and terminological difficulties frequently compromise the selectivity or exhaustivity of responses, a problem aggravated when the information pool consulted is multilingual. Apart from problems posed by non-equivalence of concepts, instances of synonymy and homography, and morphological peculiarities of the languages involved, the user's own linguistic and documentary competence will also have a bearing on research results. Documentary informatics can no longer dispense with linguistic engineering, but must integrate into their retrieval systems terminological reference bases derived from thesauri which, apart from reformulating and broadening queries, should permit their translation into other languages.
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Prihartanti, Gandis Octya, M. R. Nababan, and Djatmika. "Translation Technique of “Red Herring” as a Conversation Topic Change in Big Little Lies Novel by Liane Moriarty." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 3, no. 10 (October 30, 2020): 201–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.10.22.
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Through this paper, the authors expose “Red Herring” as a kind of logical fallacy used to change conversation topic caused by sensitive topics that attack someone’s face. The authors choose qualitative research design since format data is presented by words. Thus, the utterances in Big Little Lies novel by Liane Moriarty are selected as data. To collect the data, the authors applied a documentary study which covers document analysis and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). FGD is done by raters who have capability of translation studies and linguistics whose role is to recognize translation technique and assess translation qualities as well. There are 10 translation techniques that are used for “Red Herring.” Moreover, after the calculation, the results for translation qualities are as follows 2.96 (accuracy), 2.88 (acceptability), and 2.92 (readability). The translation technique that affects Red Herring’s quality score of accuracy is literal. Meanwhile, borrowing translation technique affects the acceptability and readability score. Although there are translation aspects whose scores are reduced due to translation techniques, its quality is still relatively good. It is because of the majority of translation techniques which are used do not have this impact.
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Kordić, Ljubica. "Developing Translation Competence Within the Lifelong Learning Programme for Lawyer-Linguists in the Republic of Croatia." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 45, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0018.
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Abstract Translation competence includes a complex variety of cognitive, linguistic and cultural skills. Translation in the field of law represents an even more demanding process, as it can be defined as “an act of communication in the mechanism of law” which leads “to legal effects and may induce peace or a prompt war” (Šarčević, 1997). In this paper, different aspects of the translator’s competence in legal translation are discussed. In the introductory part, an overview of theoretical approaches to the translation process is offered. The main part of the paper is dedicated to problems and challenges that legal translators are faced with. Special attention is paid to teaching the documentary approach to translation of EU legislation within the Lifelong Learning Programme for Lawyer-Linguists in the Republic of Croatia. The problems occurring in legal translation and competences of legal translators are discussed from the teacher’s perspective, based on the experience in teaching the course Introduction to the Theory of Legal Translation and Terminology within the Lifelong Learning Programme for Lawyer-Linguists at the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, Croatia.
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Jiménez-Crespo, Miguel A. "The Internet in translation education." Translation and Interpreting Studies 10, no. 1 (June 15, 2015): 33–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.10.1.03jim.
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Within the context of the global digital revolution, translation in professional settings cannot be understood without the Internet, as a communicative, documentary, and productivity tool (Cronin 2013; Jimenez-Crespo 2013). Similarly, translation training has been revolutionized by the wide range of possibilities afforded by the Internet. This paper reviews the impact of the Internet on translation e research within the framework of translation competence models (PACTE 2005; Göpferich 2009), as well as socio-constructivist approaches to translation education (Kiraly 2012; 2000). Its impact has been felt in two areas: (1) how translation is taught and (2) how the world of translation has been changed by the Internet. Related to the first area is the rapid increase in the number of online and hybrid programs offered and in the use of online teaching platforms in classroom-based contexts. Related to the second area, a wide range of new opportunities has arisen, such as: (1) those related to the Internet as a communicative platform, (2) those related to the use of the Internet during translation tasks, both in terms of cloud-based translation memory and human-aided machine translation, as well as the use of the Internet for ‘external support’ (Alves and Liparini 2009) to solve translation problems, and (3) the emergence of new translation modalities such as web localization, new textual genres, such as social networking sites or tweets, as well as new translation practices, such as online crowdsourcing and volunteer translation communities.
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Alix-Nicolaï, Florian. "Exile Drama: The Translation of Ernst Toller's Pastor Hall (1939)." Translation and Literature 24, no. 2 (July 2015): 190–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2015.0201.
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Ernst Toller's Pastor Hall, one of the first plays to depict life in a concentration camp, counts among the few anti-Nazi dramas translated into English before World War Two. The process by which it came to the British stage reveals the impact of censorship on authors and translators of anti-Fascist plays. It also reveals conflicting aesthetic strategies to tackle fascism. While Toller relied on straightforward documentary realism, one of his translators, W. H. Auden, championed anti-illusionism and distrusted propaganda art. In the cultural fight to reclaim Germany's heritage from the Nazis, German writers in exile viewed translations as urgent messages demanding prompt action, whereas British writers tended to see them as an archive for future generations.
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Jarniewicz, Jerzy. "The Pattern-Book of Grief, Pity and Affection. Tadeusz Różewicz’s „Mother Departs” and Its English Translation." Anglica Wratislaviensia 55 (October 18, 2017): 157–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.55.11.
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Tadeusz Różewicz’s Mother Departs is a late work of one of Poland’s most important writers — a polyphonic elegy dedicated to his mother, who died in 1957. The articles discusses the possible reasons of Różewicz’s relative absence in the English-speaking world and proceeds to analyze the importance of Mother Departs in his oeuvre. This award-winning book, which testifies to the impossibility of overcoming the grieving of loss, is composed of a variety of textual fragments, including documentary material, such as diaries, notebooks and letters, as well as literary works by the poet’s brother and the poet himself. Różewicz moves between the documentary and the lyrical, between the historical and the personal, between memory and grief, while merging the elegy for his mother with his own farewell, which stems from the sense of the poet’s own imminent departure. The English translator of the work had to deal with such problems as the rendering of culture specific items and emotionally charged passages of grief and tenderness, often expressed in diminutives which have no equivalents in English.
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Li, Mingxin. "The Mistranslation of James Legge in A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms from Eco-Environment Translation Theory." Studies in English Language Teaching 3, no. 1 (January 8, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v3n1p1.
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<em>Fo Guo Ji, known as A Record of Buddhistic Kingdom, was written by Chinese Monk Fa Xian in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is more a travel documentary than an exotic sceneries miracle stories; and place-legends. It has been regarded as one of the most significant classics that probed into the South Asian culture, religion. This paper deals with James Legge’s English translation of Fo Guo Ji from the perspective of translation ecology. Eco-translatology is put forward by Michael Cronin and met with new result when Hong Kong scholar Hu Gengshen put the three properties of language, to be exact, the characteristics of variability of language in both language structure and context is possible, it follows negotiability in the process of using language and the adaptability is required in eco-environment setting. In light of eco-translation theory, this paper aims at exploring the factors influencing James Legge’s English translation by analysizing the text as well as providing a new angle to interpret James Legge’s translation to Chinese classics.</em>
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Benedetti, Jean. "A History of Stanislavski in Translation." New Theatre Quarterly 6, no. 23 (August 1990): 266–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00004577.
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Stanislavski has become a minor industry, both in theatre training and in publishing, with courses and related books endorsing, elaborating, or questioning his ‘System’. But how much of the System is really accessible to an English-speaking readership, and how full a view of Stanislavski's fully-formed ideas does it represent? Even the order and timing of the appearance of his works in English has, argues Jean Benedetti, determined our reception of his thought, and left us ignorant, sometimes wilfully, of the real development of his thinking: and in the following article, he traces the complicated and often fraught history of the translation of Stanislavski's works into English, revealing how (sometimes from the best of intentions) a slanted and incomplete view of the System still dominates our perceptions. Following a career in the theatre, film, and television. Jean Benedetti was Principal of the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama from 1970 to 1987, and since 1979 has been chairman of the Theatre Education Committee of the International Theatre Institute. In 1982 he published Stanislavski: an Introduction, and his biography of Stanislavski, the first in the West in forty years, was published in the autumn of 1988, and in paperback earlier this year. He is currently working on a documentary history of the Moscow Art Theatre.
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Ng, Pak Shun. "Qi Jiguang’s “Oral Instructions from the Podium”." Journal of Chinese Military History 3, no. 2 (November 26, 2014): 140–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22127453-12341269.
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Until the later half of the twentieth century, Western studies of Chinese military thought have used as their source texts mainly the translations of the “Seven Military Classics,” six of which were written before the Tang dynasty. Military scholarship in the later periods was deemed to lack the strategic weight of these venerated classics. However, the Ming dynasty witnessed several key developments in military affairs that have been documented in Chinese military texts. According to surveys of important Chinese military treatises written before the twentieth century, several Ming military texts are highlighted for their significant value to Chinese military history and tactics. Unfortunately, only a few such texts have full or partial translations in European languages to facilitate in-depth study by Western scholars. This paper provides an English translation of a key Ming military text that had hitherto been unavailable in the public domain to facilitate a more holistic understanding of China’s military past. The source text is Qi Jiguang’s Record of Military Training (Lianbing shiji練兵實紀) Part Two, Chapter 4, entitled “Oral Instructions from the Podium” (Dengtan koushou登壇口授). This chapter has been chosen for translation based on its significant documentary value and conceptual contributions in describing four themes of Qi’s thoughts on military strategy: deliberate calculations, active defence, concentration of force, and combined warfare.
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Van Vaerenbergh, Leona. "Polysemy and synonymy." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 19, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 235–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.19.2.05van.
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The use of the same term with different meanings and the use of different terms with somewhat analogous meanings are not exceptional phenomena in scientific language. This article deals with polysemy and synonymy, and consists of three parts. The introductory part gives a brief description of the dictionaries and encyclopedias published up to the present time and justifies the choice of the examples in this case study, namely the polysemic term coherence and four synonymous pairs of concepts and terms: documentary/instrumental translation, overt/covert translation and interlingual interpretive/interlingual descriptive communication as well as direct/indirect translation. The second part offers a comparison between the various dictionaries and encyclopedias and shows how the polysemic term coherence and the related pairs of concepts/terms are dealt with. It also indicates how the profusion of terminology could more effectively meet the needs of everyone who is engaged in translation and Translation Studies. The purpose of the third part is to demonstrate that in the training of translators, it is necessary to dispose of a metalanguage and that terminological diversity as a reflection of theoretic-conceptual diversity may be seen as an opportunity.
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Orts Llopis, María Ángeles. "Las obras y fuentes de referencia en la traducción especializada inglés-español, español-inglés: algunos ejemplos de soporte documental para la traducción jurídica y económica." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 59, no. 1 (November 4, 2019): 189–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v59i1.117039.
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This study aims to carry out an analysis of the range of resources offered in the field of Legal and Economic Translation in English and Spanish, in order to carry out a methodical examination of documentary sources in these two translation fields. Hence, it differentiates between those named “reference works” and “reference sources”, as direct and indirect or oblique resources, respectively, for these two types of specialized translation. Through a systematic scrutiny of eight terms of special significance in the economic and legal fields (four in Spanish and four in English, in either field), the different resources classified in both groups are tested and categorized into files per term and resource, in order to assess the effectiveness of the latter according to the data obtained. Results point to a higher number of entries for the group of reference works, but also suggests that translation effectiveness in these specialized fields does not necessarily have to be achieved through direct resources, indirect ones being useful to get accuracy of meaning in the legal and economic fields.
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Bausi, Alessandro. "Un indice del Liber Aksumae." Aethiopica 9 (September 24, 2012): 102–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.9.1.244.
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To the difference of previous partial indexes of Liber Aksumae (e.g., by G.W.B. Hunt-ingford), the present one puts together all the proper names and noteworthy terms occurring in the famous publication by C. Conti Rossini of 1909-10. The index refers to the translation volume and is intended as a simple working tool for all those (archaeologists, historians, philologists, linguists etc.) who may be interested in retrieving informa-tions preserved in one of Ethiopia’s richest ‘archival’ documentary sources.