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    On Drama Translation

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    On Drama Translation Like their contemporary prose translators who were introducing Western fiction to China‚ budding dramatists were enthusiastic about bringing Western plays to the Chinese stage. The first play was staged in Japan from an adaptation of Lin Shu ’s translation of Uncle Tom ’s Cabin. A Chinese student in Japan named Li Shutong adapted the script. The play was put on by members of the Chun Liu (Spring Willow) Drama Society. Their performance marked a complete break from traditional

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    Types of Translation

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    2. Types of translation. Types of translation classification. Administrative translation The translation of administrative texts. Although administrative has a very broad meaning‚ in terms of translation it refers to common texts used within businesses and organisations that are used in day to day management. It can also be stretched to cover texts with similar functions in government. Commercial translation Commercial translation or business translation covers any sort of document used in

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    Translation Approaches

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    Translation as a social phenomena Translation Problems in Modern Russian Society The development of trade and industry has always given rise to changes in the evolution of communities‚ bringing about new social forms and stratification of society. This in its turn accelerated the appearance of businesses and factories‚ arrival of new professions‚ and urbanization. Since the times of Perestroika (which was started in 1989 by Mikhail Gorbatchev) Russian society has been experiencing dramatic

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    Translation and Technology

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    Translation and Technology Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting Series Editors: Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers‚ The Centre for Translation Studies‚ University of Surrey‚ UK Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting bring together the most important strands of thinking in a fast-developing field. Volumes in the series are designed for Masters students in Translation Studies and Interpreting‚ as well as for upper-level undergradutaes considering a career in this area

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    Machine Translation

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    ABSTRACT Most research in Machine translation is about having the computers completely bear the load of translating one human language into another. This paper looks at the machine translation problem afresh and observes that there is a need to share the load between man and machine‚ distinguish ‘reliable’ knowledge from the ‘heuristics’‚ provide a spectrum of outputs to serve different strata of people‚ and finally make use of existing resources instead of reinventing the wheel. This paper describes

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    Gender and Translation

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    Gender and Translation Accuracy Salar Manafi Anari[1] (Professor‚ Allameh Tabataba ’i University) Maliheh Ghodrati[2] (M.A. Graudate from Science and Research Campus‚ Islamic Azad University) Abstract The aim of this study was to identify the role of the gender of the translator on the accuracy of the translation‚ and to determine whether there is any difference between the translations done by female and male translators in terms of translation accuracy. Two English novels and

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    Drama Translation

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    3 THE THEORY OF TRANSLATION OF A DRAMATIC TEXT In general‚ translation is “rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way that the author intended the text.” (Newmark 1988‚ p.5) However‚ the mission of a translator of a dramatic work is slightly different from any other literary piece. A dramatic text is written in order to be performed on stage. The translator of such a text has therefore to bear in mind that the readers (i.e. the audience in this case) shall not

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    Ambiguity in Translation

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    THE PROJECT OF ambiguity in translation PROFESSOR : DR jabbari STUDENT: SAEID JEDI In the name of the most compassionate Abstract This paper deals with translation ambiguity and target polysemy problems together. many Words have more than one translation across languages. Such translation ambiguous words are generally translated more slowly and less Accurately than their unambiguous counterparts. Additionally‚ there are multiple source of translation ambiguity including within language

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    Translation and Interpreting

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    International Communication - term paper – So‚ you wannabe a translator…. Translation and Interpreting in International Communication Introduction As I was preparing to put my ideas in order and reflect upon what I was going to write for my essay on International Communication‚ I suddenly remembered the last lecture on the subject. It was about translating and interpreting‚ so I figured out that an essay on the translation challenges in today ’s world would be a great idea to write about.

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    Translation Procedures

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    content and the form of the ST in a way that conforms to the rules of the language and culture in the TL community. In general‚ this procedure is used as an effective way to deal with culturally-bound words/expressions‚ metaphors and images in translation. That is‚ the translator resorts to rewriting the SLT according to the characteristics of the TLT. Monia Bayar (2007)[16] argues that adaptation is based on three main procedures: cultural substitution‚ paraphrase and omission. Cultural substitution

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