Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Title of books'

The thesis is a survey of 291 frontispieces and illustrated title pages in European books on astronomy from the 17th century. It is a quantitative and qualitative survey of how motifs are related to consumption, identification and display. Elements in the motifs related to factual content as opposed to those aimed to raise the perceived value of astronomy are distinguished. The quantitative study shows that astronomical phenomena (90 per cent) and scientific instruments (62 per cent, or as much as 86 per cent if only titles with illustrations occupying an entire page are considered) are the most common motifs to inform the reader of the genre. Besides these, a wide range of depicted features indicate the particularity of each title. Different means for raising the value of astronomy and its attributes are identified. The interplay of “real” or “credible” elements with fictional ones was used to attract attention, create positive associations and promote acquisition and reading. The motifs mainly promote delectation and erudition, although some attract attention through their deliberately enigmatic design and a few through fear. The survey determines prevalent settings (palaces, the theatre, gardens, the wilderness and the heavens), activities (skilful use of instruments, conversations or disputes), references to the ancients and heraldic components. They present both the self-image of astronomers at the time and ideal components that contain connotations of an enhanced reality. This self-image also contributed to the definition of normative values for astronomers in the 17th century. The affinities between painters and astronomers are examined. In addition, an analysis of descriptions of frontispieces is undertaken, which shows that the user of the book was expected to devote considerable time to the frontispiece in order to understand all of its particular features and that the illustrations were suitable for display and learned digression.

The aim of the study is to apply a paratext analysis to investigate what it is in thepackaging of books that can appear attractive to children and what are the distinctiveshared features of popular pupil choices among books. The analysis consists of anexamination of each book and then a comparative section. The analytical categories arethe title and subtitle, author’s name, publisher’s information, cover pictures, the backcover, the spine, the format of the book, endpapers, and the series emblem. Thetheoretical premises are hermeneutics and semiotic interpretations of signs. The studyproceeds from Genette’s concepts of paratext, peritext and epitext. A prominent common feature of the books was series emblems in the form ofmain titles and colours. Another significant conclusion is that the cover often depictssome climactic event in the content of the book. The content and the cover mustharmonize so that the reader will not feel disappointed. The didactic conclusions are thatteachers must have a good understanding of the effect a book cover can have on pupils.Often teachers try to motivate pupils by telling them about the exciting content, but ifthe pupil is not motivated by the paratext, the threshold will be too high. It is of greatrelevance that teachers offer pupils several different books with varying paratexts.

<p>The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process of translating a book title from English into Swedish and vice versa. I have investigated the different methods used when translating a title, as well how common each strategy is. By contacting publishing companies and translators in Sweden, I learned of the process of adapting a title from the source language into a foreign market and the target language. Studying 156 titles originally published in English, and 47 titles originally written in Swedish, I was able to see some patterns. I was particularly interested in what strategies are most commonly used.</p><p>In my study I found nine different strategies of translating a book title form English into Swedish. I have classified them as follows: Keeping the original title, Translating the title literally, Literal translation with modifications, Keeping part of the original title and adding a literal translation, Adding a Swedish tag to the English title, Adding a Swedish tag to the literal translation, Translation with an omission, Creating a new title loosely related to the original title and finally Creating a completely different title. In the study of titles translated from Swedish into English, I found eight different translation strategies; seven of the strategies were the same as in the translation of titles from English into Swedish. The one method that differed is called Translation with an addition. The study of titles originally published in Swedish was much smaller; and yet more variety and creativity was shown in the translations. The conditions for translating from Swedish into English are different since English readers normally have no knowledge of Swedish. Names of characters and places for example, are very likely to sound very odd to an English reader, and therefore more translations are necessary. Swedish readers on the other hand are generally relatively proficient in English since they are exposed to the language naturally in their everyday lives through for example, television. Therefore it was easier to stay close to the original in the translations from English into Swedish.</p>

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitas Negeri Padjadjaran, 2003.<br>Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, 2003) under title: Konsepsi hak milik atas tanah bagi bangsa Indonesia ditinjau dari ajaran hak asasi manusia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-366).

Recent statistical studies suggest the proportion of Hispanic students within our nation’s classrooms is growing at a significant rate, experiencing the highest increase in numbers of any other ethnic group. These students require resources conducive to English language learning which also honor the Hispanic/Latino culture. Yet, out of 3,400 books received by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) in 2011, only 52 were penned or created by Latino authors/ illustrators. This number is expected to decline over the coming years. This insufficiency is an enormous challenge to librarians who strive to empower the Hispanic student population and promote cultural diversity among all students. Empowering Learners, (p. 53) reminds us that librarians offer materials and services to accommodate the needs of children for whom English is a second language. The library program ideally seeks to reflect the linguistic and cultural pluralism of our country. How can we arise to this need? Librarians succeed in supporting Hispanic students by utilizing Pura Belpré award-winning titles. This accolade is presented annually by the Association of Library Services to Children (a division of the ALA) to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work “best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth,” embodying the essence of the Latino culture. The promotion of Pura Belpre’ titles, the delivery of associated crafts and activities as well as the use of online resources serve as indispensable tools to assist the librarian in enriching the literary experiences of Hispanic learners and celebrating the Latino heritage with all children. In our session, we share in-depth knowledge of selected titles with correlating crafts and activities. Attendees will leave the session with practical, concrete instructional ideas, ready for immediate use.

Il est fréquent d’affirmer qu’un titre représenterait un bien : une lettre de change représenterait une créance de somme d’argent, un connaissement représenterait une marchandise, une inscription en compte représenterait une valeur mobilière, un « depositary receipt» représenterait une action étrangère … Il s’agirait donc de « titres représentatifs ». Mais que recouvre cette formule ? Traduit-elle l’existence d’un véritable mécanisme de représentation des biens par des titres en droit privé ou s’agit-il d’un abus de langage ? Dans un premier temps, l’étude des titres représentatifs permet d’établir l’existence de la représentation juridique des biens par des titres en droit privé, qui constitue alors le pendant de la représentation des personnes. Il apparaît toutefois que ce mécanisme n’est pas unitaire et c’est pourquoi il convient de distinguer deux techniques de représentation juridique des biens par des titres : la représentation parfaite d’un bien par un titre et la représentation imparfaite d’un ensemble de biens réunis au sein d’un patrimoine d’affectation par des titres. Dans un second temps, l’analyse de la mise en oeuvre de la représentation juridique des biens par des titres en droit privé, réalisée en vue d’éprouver la pertinence de la théorie dégagée, montre qu’il n’est pas toujours possible de créer librement tout type de titres représentatifs concernant des biens de toute nature. La liberté ne joue que pour les titres représentatifs parfaits de certains biens. L’étude de la mise en oeuvre de ce mécanisme souligne par ailleurs que la création d’un titre représentatif induit des difficultés auxquelles il convient de pallier en édictant un certain nombre de règles<br>It is common to assert that a document represents property: a bill of exchange is said to represent a receivable, a bill of lading to represent goods, a book-entry account to represent a security or a depositary receipt to represent shares, etc. These are therefore “documents of title”. However, what does this mean? Is it a genuine mechanism to represent property by documents in private law or is it a misnomer? First, a study of such documents will establish the existence of legal representation of property by certificates in private law, equivalent to the representation of persons. However, it would seem not to bea unitary mechanism and a distinction must therefore be made between two techniques of legal representation of property by documents: the direct representation of property by a document and the indirect representation of a set of properties assembled in a fiduciary trust by certificates. Next, an analysis of implementation of the legal representation of property by certificates in private law, conducted to test the relevance of the theory, shows that it is not always possible to create any type of such documents freely for any kind of property. Such freedom applies only to documents that are directly representative of certain property. A study of the implementation of this mechanism also emphasizes that the creation of a document of title leads to difficulties that may be overcome by enacting some rules

In much of the historiography surrounding print culture and the book trade, the worldliness of print remains a point of common emphasis. Indeed, many influential studies either assume or actively present the history of print as part of a broader ‘secularization thesis’. Recently, however, historians have challenged these narratives, recognizing the central role of religious print as a driver of growth within the book trade and discussion within the nascent ‘public sphere’. Yet the scholarship into ‘religion and the book’ remains fragmentary, focused on individual genres or persons, with no unified monograph or standard reference work yet to emerge. This dissertation addresses some of the barriers to synopsis by investigating the long-term print output of the largest social and professional group engaged in evangelizing Christianity to the public: the clergy of the Church of England. By focusing on the clergy, this dissertation evades the usual narrow focus on genre. In the past, book-historical and bibliographic studies have relied heavily on a priori classification schemes to study the market for print. While sufficient in the context of relatively well-defined genre categories, such as printed sermons, the validity of these classification schemes breaks down at the wider level, for example, under the conceptual burden of defining the highly fluid and wide-ranging category of ‘religious works’. This dissertation begins to remedy such problems by modelling the print output of a large population of authors who had the strongest stake in evangelizing Christianity to the public through print. It utilizes the latest techniques in the field of digital humanities and bibliometrics to create a representative sample of the print output of the Anglican clergy over the ‘long’ eighteenth-century (here 1660-1800). Based on statistical trends, the thesis identifies a crucial period in the history of clerical print culture, the first four decades of the Hanoverian regime. The period is explored in detail through three subsequent case studies. By combining both traditional and digital methods, therefore, the dissertation explores clerical publishing as a phenomenon subject to evolution and change at both the macro and micro level. The first chapter provides an overarching statistical study of clerical publishing between 1660 and 1800. By combining data from two bibliographical datasets, The English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), and the prosopographical resource, The Clergy of the Church of England Database (CCED), I extract and analyse a dataset of clerical works consisting of almost 35,000 bibliographic records. The remaining chapters approach the thesis topic through primary research-based case studies using both print and manuscript sources. The case studies were selected from the period identified in the preceding statistical analysis as a crucial transitional moment in the history of clerical publishing culture, c.1714 to 1750. These case studies form chapters 2, 3, and 4, each of which explore a different aspect of a network of authors who worked under the direction of the bishop of London, Edmund Gibson (1723-1748), during the era of Whig hegemony under Sir Robert Walpole. Finally, an appendix outlines the methodology used in chapter 1 to extract the sample of clerical printed works from the ESTC. Overall, the thesis demonstrates the profound influence of the clergy on the development of English print in the hand-press period. It thus forms both a historiographic intervention against the secularization thesis still implicit in discussions of print culture and the book trade, as well as providing a cautionary critique of the revisionism which has shaped recent investigations into the Church of England.

Yes<br>In the last 10 years the University of Bradford Library Acquisitions Department has shrunk from 13 members of staff to 5. This has led to us embracing new technology to help streamline workflows within the department. As well as utilising EDI functionality, changing processing workflows and using shelf-ready books, we have devised innovative ways of dealing with everyday tasks. Topics included cover: PDA deduplication; spine labelling on a large scale; the weeding of discarded books; using saved global updates on incoming MARC records and using load profiles innovatively.

碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>跨文化研究所翻譯學碩士在職專班<br>105<br>Translation studies tend to concentrate on analysis of translation such as whether the translation meets the originals or expresses correctly the meaning of the source texts. However, the studies of book title translation seem to be neglected. Since the 1990s, Bassnett and Lefevere brought an infusion of cultural aspect to the analysis of translation, the so-called “cultural turn” or “cultural approach”, it is no longer just texts or linguistic studies. Should the translation of book title stick closely to the original an essential? Does a consideration of the cultural studies become a key factor to the translation of book title? This thesis aims to study the changes and trends of the translation methods of book title of American and English literature published in Taiwan from the 20th to the 21st century. The thesis has been mainly divided into three parts. The first part examines the practicability of book title translation by adopting Christiane Nord’s functionalism, loyalty and fidelity in specialized translation and Peter Newmark’s communicative translation and semantic translation. Then the second part deals with the changes of book title translation, revealing how the translation strategies of book title were changed and what each of the strategies featured. The last part on questionnaire survey presents a crucial factor which influences choice of translation strategies. The combination of the comparison among previous conclusions, naming types of the original book title, and the result of the survey indicated that the key factor is readers’ orientation. To sum up, in the 20th century literal translation was the main strategy for book title translation of English literature in Taiwan, but nowadays, publishers or translators tend to adapt or rewrite book titles to fit the culture or the trend of the target market. Adapted book title pictures more about the story of the book that creates readers’ imagination and attracts more readers.

碩士<br>中國文化大學<br>資訊傳播學系<br>100<br>Human beings get information and knowledge by reading, which is a complex mind processing that can affect us both physically and mentally. Different types of reading patterns have been documented to explain human reading behaviors. The layout of a text, for example, has been found to have an influence on how it is received and comprehended. This study is an investigation of the legibility of the various layout arrangements of e-book titles: whether they have an effect on the physical activities of eyes, such as fixation duration, saccadic amplitude, and the number of times the eye blinks. The experiment was conducted in the laboratory and utilized eye tracking method. An eye tracker was used to precisely record eye fixation and fixation duration. In the experiment the color combinations used to present the virtual title and its background come from seven colors: four basic ones (red, blue, green, and yellow) based on the NCS system and three additional colors (black, grey, and white). The study began with a pre-procedure Likert Scale survey, which involves the presentation of twenty-four types of layout to art editors and text editing experts for the purpose of finding out two most frequently used layout types. Then a pilot study was conducted to determine the procedure and the stimuli to be employed in the formal experiment. It was found that directions of the text layout (horizontal and vertical) had no significant effect on text legibility. Therefore, the finalized design of the study includes (a) the presentation of the title in two types of fonts (i.e., the clear type and the bold type) and (b) the use of thirty sets of color combination, instead of thirty-four, to show the title text and its background because the latter took too much time. The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of font types and color combinations of e-book titles on reading time, fixation duration, saccadic amplitude, and blink frequency and thus on text legibility. The results of the study showed that font types and directions of the text layout had no influence on text legibility. Color combinations of words and their background have significant effects on text legibility. Generally speaking, color combinations that are more legible are white text on black background, white text on blue background, red text on grey background, and green text on white background. Color combinations that are less legible are green text on grey background, grey text on green background, blue text on grey background, and yellow text on white background, which, low in luminance contrast, should be avoided in the designing of the title.

碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>圖書資訊學系<br>96<br>In comparison to the bibliographic information from news headlines or Internet bookshops, most library bibliographies describe collections by their initial appearance. Among the record fields in library bibliographies, the title and the author can mainly reflect the content of the collections. The title can be described in a more flexible way; however it does not exactly reflect the content of the collection. Also, the information load is different. If collections are automatically classified only by titles, it may not reach a reasonable success in the automatic classification. In light of the potential problems, the research puts forward a strategy, which aims to utilise both search engine, such as Google, to expand document features and the author as a record field to assist classifying. The experiment proves that this proposed strategy is helpful for promoting the effect of automatic bibliography classification effectively and efficiently.

碩士<br>大同大學<br>工業設計學系(所)<br>105<br>In recent years, the number of new books published has been declining, but the number of new books publishers remains the same. The publishers concern about how to attract readers’ attention and increase the sales of books. One of the factors in drawing the reader’s attention is book cover design. Book cover consists of several elements and title is the most important element of them. For capture reader’s attention, the title could be emphasized by typefaces. Since hand-written calligraphy has variety of forms and infinite variation, the main title uses it could lend covers to garner attention. In this study, the book covers with Chinese titles in handwritten calligraphy were used as the experimental samples and which were distributed into four groups according to the book cover layout. In order to know the readers’ thoughts and preference on Calligraphy forms and cover layouts, this study was using a survey which included questions and statements The results show the factors affecting attractiveness are the size of the calligraphy font, the arrangement of reading direction, the legibility of font, the font color, and the position of pictures. While using hand-written calligraphy forms on main title, regular script and running-regular script are applicable. In addition to clean and readable, large font size improves the appearance of text. Moreover, while creating a book cover layout, less cover elements and horizontally center arrangement are appealing. Hence the structure and strokes of Hand-written Calligraphy are complicate and vibrational, graphics with complex lines or distributed over the cover will confuse and distract the focal point.

This study examines the relationship between the metaphor in the title and the content of T.T. Cloete’s Volume of Poetry titled Met die aarde praat. It will be demonstrated that the volume title as global metaphor is an integral part of the textual element of the text, that it also fulfills a hermeneutical function in respect to the text in that it offers clues and insights into reading and understanding of the poems or volume contents. In light of the aforementioned metaphor theory is investigated on three levels: on a cognitive or conceptual level, on a linguistic/textual level and on a communicative level. The titles and mottos of the eight sections frame the sections as well as refer to themes and provide clues to reading and understanding the individual poems or volume contents. Section titles are framed by the volume title and often interact with the volume title as global metaphor and together.<br>Afrikaans and Theory of Literature