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    Introduction The main task of the translator – to use all knowledge of theoretical bases of translation for transfer the communicative function of the original‚ as knowledge of theoretical bases of translation and extralinguistic realities are necessary conditions of translation. Suppliers and producers of production do everything possible to attract as much as possible consumers. For this purpose advertizing appears on screens of our television‚ by radio‚ also it appears in the form of advertizing

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    Cultural differences and translation of idioms Language and culture are closely connected and inseparable‚ as a language idiom is the essence of the deposition of the fascinating history and culture. Because of geography‚ history‚ religion‚ customs and other aspects of life differences between Chinese and English Idioms carrying characteristics of the different cultures and cultural information‚ so English-Chinese Idioms often encounter many difficulties. From the geographical environment‚ historical

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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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    Literary Translation as a Creative Act Literary translation implies the translation of all genres of literature‚ which include prose‚ drama and poetry. Literature is described as ’an apparently nebulous body of knowledge in oral or written form‚ an imitation of life‚ which reflects civilization and culture‚ and which covers every angle of human activities-culture‚ tradition‚ entertainment‚ information among others.’ It is one of the great creative and universal means of communicating the emotional

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    2013 Machine Translation VS. Human Translation From cultural perespective Introduction Today‚ computers are used in all fields‚ and even almost every field has it ’s own software packages. Using computers to translate a text from one language to another refered to machine translation [MT]. Machine translation is an interesting technology for human translators. It is a fact that MT software can translate texts very quickly. The question is that: Are these machine translations perfect? Are

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    In the Wall Street Journal‚ Lost in Translation is an article about how language has influenced the way people view the world. Lera Boroditsky ask the public a question if language really shapes the way we speak without even noticing that our brain is even doing that. She explains that English language marks the verb tense‚ but that the Russian language marks the verb tense and describes the gender as well. In the Turkish language you would require the verb and the information to support the verb

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    According to Fromkin (2011)‚ grammar translation is a technique or method of second-language learning in which the student memorizes words and syntactic rules and translates them between the native language and target language. In other words‚ grammar translation method is a foreign language teaching that requires students to translate words and memorize. The goal is to make sure that the student able to read and translate the target language. Grammar translation method is a traditional method and

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    GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD Mostly known as ‘The Classical Method’‚ Grammar Translation Method is not based on the fact that of communication‚ but teaching. C. Orrieux refers that GTM is for Latin and Ancient Greek are known as “dead languages”. He adds that “it is for the kinds of grammar training that led to the “mental dexterity” considered so important in any higher education study stream.” The aim of teaching these languages is not make the learners speak communicatively. However‚ its fundamental

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    Translation criticism on Google translation of proper names in tourism texts Rahele Eyvallah and Zohre Hadi Fars Science and Research University 2011 Rahele_eyvallah@yahoo.com & zohrehadi@gmail.com Abstract The translation of proper names seems to be an effortless task. This study aims at determining the translation of proper names. First‚ the article presents the theoretical consideration that deals with different aspects of proper names translation in tourism texts and the issue of

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    Summary of Katharina Reiss’s Article about Text Types‚ Translation Types and Translation Assessment According to the classification of text types‚ the Reiss introduces an audio-media type to cover the rising of translation and separate this kind of translation besides sticking the conventional three based on Buhler’s functions of the linguistic sign. Furthermore‚ in her book (1976)‚ Reiss shows the connection between three text types and various text varieties in the form of diagram and mentioned

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